Yes! Ours can recite the entire water cycle from one documentary but cannot remember where his shoes live. I’ve stopped taking the forgetting personally.

Mine is exactly the same. Knows every bone in the human body, cannot remember which drawer the socks live in.

Apparently it’s about whether it hooks onto something they already care about. Sock drawers don’t hook onto anything.

Ours watched one documentary about volcanoes and can still name the plate boundaries a year later. Times tables? Still a battle.

I find it genuinely funny now. He can recite the entire offside rule and forgets his coat every single time.

This is why I stopped worrying about repetition. If it lands, it lands, and if it doesn’t we come back to it in six months.

My eldest is like this. What changed things was letting him teach it back to me — if he can explain it, it’s stuck.

selective hearing

Ha! Ours remembers every promise I’ve ever made about ice cream and nothing about the washing up.

There’s something in it about interest doing the work that repetition can’t. I’ve stopped fighting it.

Same here. I now sneak the boring things into the interesting things, which feels like cheating but works.

Ours learnt the periodic table from a song and can still sing it. I’ve explained apostrophes fifty times.

This made me laugh out loud. My daughter memorised every dinosaur name at four and still forgets her own middle name.

yep sounds about right

It got easier when I stopped taking the forgetting personally. It isn’t about how well I explained it.

We call it the shark effect in our house. Six months of nothing but sharks, and he still knows all of it.

Honestly it’s a good sign, isn’t it. It means the learning is real rather than crammed.

Mine remembers everything he discovered himself and nothing he was told. I’ve learnt to shut up more.

The trick that worked for us was gaps. Come back to something a fortnight later rather than the next day.

Ours is nine and can reel off every capital city from a jigsaw puzzle. School said he had a poor memory.

mine is exactly the same its unreal

so ture!!

That last line is exactly our life. He builds circuits from memory and asks me daily what day it is.

I’ve started writing down the things he says weeks after we covered them. Loads has stuck that I thought hadn’t.

Same, and I’ve stopped explaining ten times. If it needs ten it usually just needs a different day.

every day in this house

if its about football he remembers everything

lol yes