He won't remember any of this, he's too young and it's too painful. Children are wonderfully self-preserving. They filter memory, cleanse and sanitise it, unless it's too awful to renounce. And this isn't. Or is it? These gummy spots of time that inextricably adhere when so much more is erased, how do we account for their tenacity? Rick Gekoski
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Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "He won't remember any of this, he's too young and it's too painful." In this quote, Emerson is talking about how children are able to protect themselves from the pain of the past. Our memories can be very powerful and can be used to make us feel connected to a time in our lives. In order to keep our memories from being forgotten, we often have to avoid certain situations that could bring up those painful memories. If our children don't understand or remember what is going on they will likely have a hard time feeling a connection to a time in their life they don't remember.

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