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It depresses me that my husband has already forgotten details about LO's first year of life! LOL!

How depressing. Why am I making such an effort now???

If you keep good scrapbooks that they like to look at, they don't forget everything. Our 5 yr old loves to look at pics and so he'll look through them and he can recall stuff from those days. It's like constant reminders.

My baby isn't here yet but my 19-month-old niece is visiting on holiday from England and she's having such a good time, it's so sad she'll never remember her trip to Toronto! Sometimes I love that my little nieces and nephews won't remember stuff though because to them their aunty has always lived overseas whereas my eight-year-old niece remembers all the time I used to spend with her before I moved and it makes her sad. I hate that!

Awh, I never thought about...but now that you mention it, yeah, it's depressing

It actually doesn't depress me at all, because everything we do now is so important. Its kind of amazing that our LO's won't remember these years, but if we are not good parents; they will be...well, sort of messed up for life. Since they won't remember anything, but our actions now will have such a profound impact on their lives; it seems a little bit amazing really.

Wow, I totally don't think of it that way at all. The way we parent now is so huge. Everything matters, from the way we treat them and take care of them, to the food we feed them, to the exercise and adventures they get. I guess it is a little sad that they won't remember all the crazy stuff we do, but good parenting now pays off so well later.