My daughter has this friend who could not say Lilly very well, so instead she called her "Nony." Lilly liked that she was called Nony. She would come home from playing with her friend and say, "I'm Nyah's Nony." It was very cute. I would say it has maybe been 6 months since her friend stopped calling her Nony and started calling her Lilly.
The other day, Lilly was saying "Nony, Nony, Nony" over and over again. So, I asked her, "Who used to call you Nony?" She looked at me with a blank stare and said, "I don't know...me?" I couldn't believe that she really didn't know, so I asked her again, "Who used to call you, Nony? Don't you remember?" To which Lilly replies, "I don't remember." So I told her and she just continued to give me the "I don't know" look, like she had no recollection of what I was talking about.
I am amazed that she could forget this - like I said, it wasn't that long ago and it was something she talked about a lot. I have always been amazed at the memory of a child, how they can remember something you just mentioned a week ago. This "lack of memory" really shocked me. Is this when it starts? Is age 4, when you start to "forget" stuff?
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