Chris Cohlmeyer
Sep 8, 2018 · 1 min read

I once started telling my mother about our summer vacation when I was three years old, she was fine with it agreeing that my recall was accurate until I got close to when I started to exhibit signs of polio at which point she shut down and accused me of repeating what someone else must have told me. She always seemed to have had a hard time when it came to illnesses often compartmentalizing them away and trying to forget those time periods.

In general, under age three “memories” are pictorial or sensations that generally don’t become permanent but can potentially impact early childhood perceptions. Ten, twenty years later they will likely have no recall of that perception unless it was repeated to them for some time over their younger years.

For most kids, around age three is the start of the use of and comprehension of language to express past, present and future thus living in the ‘now’ significantly changes – memory begins to be an important factor in their daily life.

    Chris Cohlmeyer

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    Janitor, leather craftsman, saddler, Forester, retired almost. Abuse survivor, former alcoholic addict, dad of three, skiing, nature, camping. life is good