Childhood Amnesia: an Update from the Archives

Three years ago I wrote about the phenomenon of children I'd spent hours with in childcare settings forgetting who I was, and I wondered if there was a name for this - and there is! This evening I heard this story on NPR about childhood amnesia, or children's inability to remember events from the first three or four years of their lives. While this phenomenon doesn't entirely overlap with my experience - some of the kids whom I knew were older, eight year olds who forgot me by 13 - it does provide a satisfying piece to the puzzle.