Talk to your toddler about the people, places, and things you see when you are out walking or travelling, such as the bus at the bus-stop or the MRT train passing by. New Jersey Council for Young Children. (2013). New Jersey Birth to Three Early Learning Standards. Retrieved from https://www.nj.gov/education/ece/guide/standards/birth/standards.pdf Reese, E., & Robertson, S.-R. (2019). Origins of adolescents’ earliest memories. Memory, 27(1), 79–91. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2018.1512631 Wang, Q., & Gülgöz, S. (2019) New perspectives on childhood memory: introduction to the special issue, Memory, 27:1, 1-5
Toddlers have spontaneous memories of place. A study of forty 35-month-old children showed that spontaneous memories were triggered when young children were brought back to a highly distinct setting, in which they previously experienced an interesting event.
Maternal conversations about events and places also helped the children develop memories. This suggests that talking to children about places they have been, as well as past and future events, could help create and trigger autobiographical memories. Reese, E., & Robertson, S.-R. (2019). Origins of adolescents’ earliest memories. Memory, 27(1), 79–91. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2018.1512631 Wang, Q., & Gülgöz, S. (2019) New perspectives on childhood memory: introduction to the special issue, Memory, 27:1, 1-5.
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