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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those of you who have kids this age (mine isn't old enough yet), how much do they talk and convey thoughts and more importantly how much do they remember?

Will a 3 yr old talk about how he/she was so cold in the car or develop a fear of cars or whatever? How about a 2 yr old? Will they forget eventually or is it going to take years? Or is it like infants where they don't remember/have a sense of time? I realize every kid is different but just curious from a child dev point of view.[/quote]

I have 3.5 yo twins and they are pretty talkative, but they don't always have the right meanings of words.  For example, one calls both hot and cold "too hot" even though they know the difference when we tell them.  He just usually knows that sensation as "hot".  As for remembering, they don't always remember specific incidents, but they do remember things that cause strong feelings.  In a case like this, I can see them freaking out just seeing the car seat for a while.  They will just associate being scared, cold and abandoned with the car seat.  It may not happen all the time, but if they are cold or tired and see the car seat, they may have a major meltdown.  We've seen triggers like this over bad incidents.  Like my son was at daycare once, playing on a particular bench and a girl slightly bigger than him came and tried to take his toy away.  He fought and the girl pushed him backwards off the bench and he cracked his head on the concrete behind him with a big goose-egg and a little blood.  I was called and took him to the ER that afternoon.  For the next few months, he always talked about not liking the girl and he would never sit on that bench.  When asked he didn't remember the incident, but he wouldn't go near that bench and avoided the girl and talked about not liking the girl.  The daycare didn't tell us who the child who pushed him was, but it was pretty clear from my son's reaction that that girl was the bully.  From our experience with two and with other classmates and friends of similar ages, this type of association is not uncommon.[/quote]

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