2 year olds memory.

[amytrisha]

Finley is almost 3 but for ages now he's been remembering things from months ago, things I'd even forgotten about. He talks about 'Katie' and her red car all the time.. I realised he's on about the health visitor that did his two year check almost a year ago?!
The other day he asked me where his blue sticker had gone, when I asked what sticker he said 'the man gave it me when I see the animals' referring to the farm we went to months ago.

Is this normal or is my 2 year old cleverer than me

 

[familygirl30]

My son remembers things from a long time ago, sometimes I'm like how does he remember that!

 

[Scout]

Yes. A toddler's memory is amazing. My cousin's hypothesis is that their heads are not yet filled with life's garbage, so they have room to remember everything. LOL I remember wondering if it was normal too about a year ago when I was amazed that dd remembered a lighting store we had gone to once at least a year before. I tell her all the time that she'll have to remember so and so, because mommy can't remember what she did yesterday. haha

 

[SarahBear]

Sounds like Violet.

 

[SarahBear]

Yes. A toddler's memory is amazing. My cousin's hypothesis is that their heads are not yet filled with life's garbage, so they have room to remember everything. LOL I remember wondering if it was normal too about a year ago when I was amazed that dd remembered a lighting store we had gone to once at least a year before. I tell her all the time that she'll have to remember so and so, because mommy can't remember what she did yesterday. haha

Haha, that's what I was thinking. Their memory isn't yet filled with other things, so they can remember all kinds of stuff.

 

[Bevziibubble]

Holly has a good memory. When she was 2 she could remember events from months and months back. She can't remember being two anymore but she can remember a year back.

Nice to see you on BnB again hun

 

[_Meep_]

Mine's 2.5 and has a ridiculous memory for things that happened way back last year. It's awesome.

 

[BlingyGal]

That sounds pretty normal to me. My niece (who is now 5) had a great memory at that age. It used to freak us out a bit but they pay attention to different details than we would and they can really fixate on surprising things. Even now she remembers, with very specific details, of things that happened when she was 2 or 3.

 

[Eleanor ace]

My DS has a great memory. Last half term I took him with me to get DD2 weighed, he hadn't been to the centre since we took DD1 there for her 2 year review (1yr 9 months ago) and he was telling me which way we needed to go and described the ramp at the front of the building. When he was 1 he was with a childminder for 2 weeks during the summer, then again 2 years later when he just turned 3 and the childminder was amazed saying that he remembered where they needed to turn into her road and at her house he asked where the cot had gone which had been in 1 of the rooms when he was there.
I think its normal for them to remember well when they're little, probably because they don't have years of mundane nonsense swimming around in there like we do as others said .

 

[broodymrs]

My little boy has an amazing memory. It's great because I don't have to remember anything!

 

[pa2k84]

Yes it's amazing. We went to local school easter 2015 to do a scarecrow trail, one on the school grounds was of stickman. Towards the end of last year I took my eldest to look around as moving his school, took him on his first day along with his brother who asked to see stickman the moment we walked through the gates! Luckily he is still there as a permenant feature now!

 

[amytrisha]

Absolutely crazy isn't it how good their little minds are! Takes me ages to work out what he's talking about sometimes because it was so long ago.
Love the theory of it being because their heads aren't filled with a million things yet!

Thanks for your replies