{"id":60703,"date":"2019-09-24T09:34:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T13:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=60703"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:55:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:55:42","slug":"mahy-your-preschoolers-forgetfulness-isnt-bad-behaviour-and-nagging-them-wont-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/09\/mahy-your-preschoolers-forgetfulness-isnt-bad-behaviour-and-nagging-them-wont-help\/","title":{"rendered":"MAHY: Your preschooler\u2019s forgetfulness isn\u2019t bad behaviour and nagging them won\u2019t\u00a0help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caitlin Mahy, Associate Professor of Psychology at Brock, wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/your-preschoolers-forgetfulness-isnt-bad-behaviour-and-nagging-them-wont-help-123072\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">piece recently published in The Conversation<\/a> about the reasons young children find it hard to remember certain tasks and how their memory improves over time.<\/p>\n<p>Mahy writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAnother school year is upon us, and both parents and children have a lot to remember as people are coming and going on new schedules: make and take lunches, bring an item for show-and-tell, carry cups to the table for dinner when asked.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>At this time of year, a young child\u2019s forgetfulness can be frustrating for parents. They may be thinking (or saying) things like:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018How could you possibly forget to brush your teeth when I asked you one minute ago!\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>Or:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>\u2018What do you mean you left your lunch on the school bus?\u2019\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>It might reassure parents to know that the ability to remember to carry out future intentions, known as prospective memory, is still developing in early childhood.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/your-preschoolers-forgetfulness-isnt-bad-behaviour-and-nagging-them-wont-help-123072\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caitlin Mahy, Associate Professor of Psychology at Brock, wrote a piece recently published in The Conversation about the reasons young children find it hard to remember certain tasks and how their memory improves over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,6,38],"tags":[3437,29,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60703"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60722,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60703\/revisions\/60722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}