How many infants did they ask?
I do. Trauma.
Led to my reading before age 2, though. I still remember the first sentence. Reading to my mother, in her bed, on white sheets.
I’m an exception to this rule.
My earliest memory is from age two.
In addition to remembering my brother’s birth when, like the author, I was 2 1/2, I also recall being pushed in a stroller across a small parking lot full of pebbles at a restaurant when I about a year old. My Mother confirmed it for me when I related my memory to her years later.
I wonder if the proliferation of VHS cameras and (now-a-days’) cel phone videos will help the next batch of kids remember events from even earlier in their lives.
I remember being stung by a bee...my father was carrying me up some stairs to someones house. Not sure how old I was but maybe 2+ and I was oldest of three...one of whom likely not born yet. I do remember my brother coming home from the hospital. Was very likely on my 3rd birthday.
-PJ
We remember events. Things that are different.
Before age two you poop, you sleep, you get fed mostly liquids. Not really a lot to stick in your head.
Now if you witness a traumatic event before age two you probably will remember it although probably not in context because you are very small.
I don’t know how old I was but I remember being in a crib and using the side rail to pull myself up to stand. My parents were asleep, they’d go out dancing on Friday and Saturday nights (1950’s). I knew if I cried they’d get mad so I said “Hoo-Hoo! Hoo-Hoo! They laughed and took me downstairs to Grandma and Grandpa. Babies are smarter than most people think.
Because there’s no context
“The authors concluded that children’s memories, especially during the preschool years, are quite malleable and susceptible to suggestion.”
...causing MANY adults to spend many years in jail.
Another of my odd things.
Yesterday for some reason I started thinking about what was my earliest memory and that someone from time to time had written articles about it. Now this post. Today.
Yesterday for some reason I started thinking about an old article (maybe about a book coming out) that said the first thing a person remembers from infancy sets the tone for their view of the world psychologically afterward.
Example: Something showing the world is dangerous and we have to real way to stop that because we have no power, makes the person feel that way all through life.
I have a number of incidents that I remember from about age two. One was sitting in a highchair watching my mother heat a jar of baby food. Another was when I stumbled and conked my head on the coffee table and my father carried me into the doctor’s office. I remember potty training, and a neighborhood Easter egg hunt.
Meant “have no real way”
Wonder why they don’t use that info in a sci-fi/cop plot....as in the cops are looking for an infant who witnessed a crime so they can coerce the infants brain to conjure up thought, sounds, and visuals...maybe on Hallmark channel, and sweet mama tries to protect baby from criminal and the cops who want the baby. Mama falls in love with criminal who is pretending he is cop...good times for all...
Working title: Tiny Secrets
Another vote for trauma, when they circumcised me my mind went blank, finally after 3 or 4 years I finally started remembering little things.
I can remember sitting in a highchair and looking across the kitchen at my grandmother. Why that stuck in my memory, I don’t know other than the fact it might have been the last time I saw her alive.
Only one I can hang a date on was watching JFK’s funeral on our TV which was a 12”(?) black and white GE with a green case shortly before I turned 3.
I remember my crib mobile and standing to play with it....then many other memories in a house I only lived in until age 2 and 7 months. Can’t remember yesterday, though.