JahaRa
Abominable Snowman
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When my grandson was 3 he asked me once "Do you remember when I was big and you were little?"I used to work with a woman whose only brother died in a motorcycle accident when he was a teenager. Some years later, the woman got married and eventually had two sons of her own. When her elder son was about four years old he began making statements such as, "A long time ago I was in an accident but I'm alright now." He would also talk about driving fast on motorcycles. This sort of talk went on for about a year. My colleague said her son, who was in his twenties when she told me about this, later had no memory of making these statements.
Could the boy have overheard family members discussing the tragedy and internalised the details? Four seems a young age at which to comprehend such an incident, even partially, but I know nothing about child psychology. It was certainly an odd story.
When my nephew was 3 he talked about being worried about his wife and kids, he had names for them and it got to be a family joke (my in-laws are idiot) to ask him how the wife and kids were when they saw him. He didn't know how they were and it would distress him but he quit talking about them and seemingly forgot.
My cousin who is 13 years younger than I started getting up in the morning saying things like "Last night the housed burned and me and my mamma and sister burned up. But it is ok, I have a new mamma now." or "Last night I was pirate and I was a very bad man. My ship was shot with cannons and I drownded."
I think there is an age when kids do remember things and are able to verbalize them, then they forget and live their current life.