mall children cause amnesia. Ask anybody who possesses a car seat to hold forth on their current phase of child-rearing, and they’ll wax lyrical about warming up milk bottles, or baby-proofing the house, or teaching phonemes, or which holiday camp is best. Ask them three months later—when their kid has moved on to the next stage of life—and they’ll draw a blank. They’ll have no idea. They will literally not remember the very issues that, just a few weeks earlier, had been the bread-and-butter of their parenting.
