Whad'Ya Know?

The day after my last post, Mihret showed me the pair of gloves that I bought for her a few weeks before and had completely forgotten about. That's right...they were upstairs.

Then yesterday we were playing in the garage. I took the sand toys out of the bottom of her stroller and within a minute, a smiling Mihret brought me the puzzle piece that had been missing for weeks. Shortly after it went missing, I asked Mihret if she knew where it was. She said, "stroller." It didn't make any sense to me that the piece would be in the stroller because the stroller was in the garage and we had kept the puzzle in the house, so I didn't even check. "Told you so, Mama..."

"At the Center for Cognitive Science at Ohio State University, researchers have found that memory accuracy of adults is hurt by the fact that they know more than children and tend to apply this knowledge when learning new information. The findings appeared in the August 2004 edition of the journal Psychological Science." (Wikipedia)

Evidently, my brain is full. If anyone is looking for a Christmas gift idea for me, I need a memory upgrade.

Update: I think this cartoon applies.
Especially given the teacher's name.