- Noooooo!

[Eliseu Gouveia]

So, my niece found the Snow White VHS tape loitering around and decided to watch it.
And it still works!
She´s gotten to the part where the dwarves are introduced singing in the cave and went "- Aww, so cute!"

????
She´s seen that movie a zillion times, I assumed the cuteness would have worn off by now.

Turns out she doesn´t remember very well having watched it.
So all those years and years from age 3 to 6 she spent watching the tape over and over and over and over again every day, sometimes twice a day... were forgotten?
Because I can still remember every single line by heart - yes, I was there at every single time,istening to that background noise as I drew -.

Sweet Frigga, was all my suffering in vain?

I guess I should be glad at least the teletubbies vhs tape fried a couple years ago.
I can withstand a couple hundred more viewings of Snow White - I think..- but one more teletubbies rerun and my brain will melt.

[Cam63]

Tellytubbies are thankfully extinct.

The Wiggles ate 'em.

[Village Idiot]

Turns out she doesn´t remember very well having watched it.
So all those years and years from age 3 to 6 she spent watching the tape over and over and over and over again every day, sometimes twice a day... were forgotten?
Because I can still remember every single line by heart - yes, I was there at every single time,istening to that background noise as I drew -.

Sweet Frigga, was all my suffering in vain?

There are some amazing changes that happen to children at different ages. I don't know if forgetting previous things is a part of that, but it might be. I do know there are changes around 6 months, 2 years, 7 years, and 25 years. Yes, 25. At that age, the self-preservation drive becomes complete, which is why teens do incredibly stupid things. And there are probably even more changes, but that's all I know off the top of my head.

[Aspield]

Kids these days!

They don't appreciate all our suffering. And they have awful taste in entertainment. When I was little, we had classy things like Captain Kangaroo, live-action Spider Man in Electric Company, Kids Incorporated, and the New Zoo Revue. Does it get better?

At least it's not Barney anymore. Man in purple dinosaur costume = creepy.

Maybe you'll get lucky and she'll discover Hannah Montana. It's a new kind of Hell.

[Tetsuo_man]

Tellytubbies are thankfully extinct.

The Wiggles ate 'em.

So we should thank australia....thank you?

[Eliseu Gouveia]

Maybe you'll get lucky and she'll discover Hannah Montana. It's a new kind of Hell.

She´s already discovered Hanna Montana but at least she has the decency not to watch it near me.
It´s the stuff she used to do at earlier ages that went - Puf!

It´s natural for me not to remember things I did when I was 5 because I´m like 290 now.

But she´s just 9 years old.
Age 5 was 2 days ago!

[DavidAllred]

I just came downstairs from reading to my daughter. She pulled a book of the old bookshelf that had her younger books on them. Every once in a blue moon she does this.

Well, it was Itsy Bitsy Spider. She's five, almost six, and I promise you I read that book to her so many times when she was two or three years old that she would recite the words back to me (usually in song) as I turned each page. At least a couple of hundred reads.

Well same thing Zue. She picked it off the shelf, brought it to me, and almost no recollection of the book, and barely remembered the tune of the song.

That's simply amazing to me.

[Cam63]

So we should thank australia....thank you?

T'was a pleasure.

[Charles RB]

It gets worse - once they're in their teens, they'll forget chores you asked them to do just one hour ago. :wink: