You’ll never forget the day your baby was born, or when they took their first step, and when they said “Mama” for the first time. These are some of your most treasured memories.
While they felt ground-breaking to you, your baby will have no recollection of these memories at all in their future life. Ask an adult what their first memory is, and they will often tell you about something that happened when they were around 3 years old.
This is the average age of remembering things from childhood, simply because recall of memories after the age of 3 years is improved by the development of the pre-frontal cortex, explains Cape Town based clinical psychologist and child neuro-psychologist Joalida Smit. “The memories may exist in the brain, but they can’t be recalled spontaneously. It needs the pre-frontal cortex to provide order and coherence of
