Please Tell Me That 2.5 Year Olds Don't Remember Stuff?

[bednobs]

Please please please .....

[flump1]

Left ' Cucumber ' on catch up by any chance ? ! Try not to worry , she will be fine . As for repeating it, she might . Sorry . That is funny though .

[boxtops]

Bednobs - I find it odd that we can watch a prog on the TV when it's first broadcast, and know that perhaps it's past the 9pm watershed (like Cucumber) - but if you try to watch it on catchup, you have to press a button saying you know it might have adult content. You don't get to press a button if it's just scheduled after 9pm.

[annieigma]

I still have a terrible memory of a coffin in a room, with a female body in it, and loads of people crying. this was my grandmother i now know, She died when I was just under two years old, but I remember nothing after that until i was about four or five. I think it takes a big big event to stick in the mind when you are young.

[DaisyNonna]

Cynthia was the little girl who lived next door. We moved before I was 3.

[Dizmo]

So I was right. You're not a bad parent. These things happen.

[atalanta]

A child of that age would almost certainly remember the birth of a sibling or a death of a close relative, if s/he was closely involved. Otherwise, it would have to be something life-altering or traumatic, like an accident, to register a memory at such an early age.

[China Doll]

Ha!

Sorry, shouldn't laugh I know.

if it's any consolation, I was heard over the baby monitor repeatedly shouting 'oh welcome' as I emptied my bathwater all over the floor... I maintain said bad behaviour was mums fault for leaving a small child alone in the bath tub.

[janbee]

I have two very strong memories from that age.

[Peter Pedant]

I am surprised someone hasnt given a more technical answer -
memory in children isnt that arcan a subject

well of course small children remember because you can ask them - where did you leave your yellow hoosit or how was nursery today and they will tell you.

but around the age of 3 - there is a switch over to 'adult memory'
and everyones "first memory" which is carried to adulthood is basically around 2 1/2 to three.

My earliest dated memory is a picture I remember being painted 1955 when I was 3 1/2.

so you have the evidence in front of you in this thread
before the age of three, people remember very little perhaps an event or two but virtually nothing at all.

[bednobs]

well, we didn't get asked to stay behind at nursery today, so im taking htat as a good sign!

[pixie373]

Just wait for her next painting to come home, bednobs ;-)

[sherrardk]

She'll wait unti you've almost forgotten about & then she'll say it really loudly somewhere really public.

[pixie373]

Yes, exactly. This is a maximum embarrassment opportunity. They never miss those.

[rockyracoon]

She'll save it for a couple of weeks time, probably whilst you're at the checkout in Tesco ;)

[askyourgran]

Like my 2/3 yr old daughter on a crowded bus. 'mummy why has that lady got moustaches?' of the lady sat next to me.