We took our now 3,5 years old son for a trip to USA last fall … so he was 2,5 years old that time. We live in Europe. Next week i am traveling there again so i spoke with him about me traveling to USA and he started asking me questions about places we were last year. Also he was telling me many specific memories from that trip last year and was asking me about specific people we have met. That is not surprising, it was last year. But how is it possible, that he will not remember anything from it 15 years from now if he remember it year after? I mean, he will not remember he was in USA at all.
I would understand that kids and toddlers keep forgetting stuff and thats why they will never remember them as an adults. But if they remember things from year or more ago, why will they forgett them as an adults?
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My memories start around age 2 (names, people, places, experiences, etc.). The older I got the more they became “memories of memories” but sometimes I still get the actual memories.
(I also used to have smells/feeling-memories from before that, but I rarely get to access them now.)
Many of my older memories are hidden deeper within my “brain library” and require many jumps from other memories.
My daughter (age 4) remembers things from a similar age on, also around age 2, and slightly before that. (e.g. a playground when we went on her first holidays abroad when she was 1y 11m) She often talks about things from a year ago or more.
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