Do Your Kids Remember Things?

[CamColt]

DS seems to remember every little detail about stuff, although, I have to admit, I can be that way too sometimes.
Yesterday I told him that today the NHL All Star game is going to be on and his first remark was "Are you going to make hot cocoa?". At first I didnt get it, but then I remembered last year we had some during the game. So now, especially since its snowing out, I feel obliged to make him hot cocoa. And Im sitting here munching on the mini marshmallows I had to buy...just what I need.
So do your kids remember the tiniest details about things too?

 

[PandyPaws]

Yup...frighteningly so with older DS....he remembers small details from things as far back as when he was 15 months old!!
I don't always know what he's talking about at first, but with some prodding and additional explaining on his part I can usually figure out what he's referring to...and I am usually completely stunned!!

 

[goofy4tink]

My 9 y/o dd remembers that most obscure things. And if I do something out of order, well, we won't go there. Everything is the same as the first time. Even if the first time was 3 yrs. ago and the second time is today!!! Too bad science can't transplant some of that grey cell matter into my old brain!!! I can't remember what day of the week it is.

 

[Michelle]

My daughter is EXACTLY the same way, she remembers minute details from events YEARS ago. The ironic thing is, this is the same kid who can't remember to bring home her books from school or what the teacher said was a homework assignment.

I call it selective memory.

 

[CamColt]

Im glad there are other kids like this too. Isnt it bizarre?

And yes, DS is sipping his hot cocoa now as the game begins. I guess this is tradition now.

 

[Buz]

I was going to post something about having more unused memory, but I forget what it was. ?????


Buz

 

[ASFCurly]

Buz

 

[Kermit]

Nope. I take Jacob's stuffed panda out of his line of vision, and he forgets he ever had it.

 

[wdw4us]

yes, they remember everything. Tradition is a big deal with my kids too. I like it, makes me feel that what I did was worth the trouble if they remember it years later.

Now, I'm missing my son........wish he was little again and home, instead of away in college.

Appreciate those moments, they go so quickly.

denise

 

[CindyKansas]

When my DD was 5 we went to our yearly dental appointment and she shocked me when she asked the dental assistant "When did you get new chairs? Last year when I was here they were brown and now they are blue" The assistant did tell DD that yes, they had new chairs and that DD was very observant.

 

[cgcw]

Just the other day, DS2 told me that when we go to the Pinewood Derby race, he wants to be the one to hold the pillow they use to stop the cars. I couldn't believe it! Last year he was just a couple of weeks shy of 2 when we went to the race.

I wonder how they can do that. My best guess is that because they are kids, they don't have any worries about the real things in life (jobs, bills, and all the other garbage we have to contend with as adults), therefore, their brain cells are not fried!