Good Housekeeping

“I don’t know… it was fine.”

In my house, my 7-year-old can jabber on and on about her adventures in Pokémon Scarlet, remembering every battle and encounter with a vivid description.

But when I ask her to tell me a single detail about what she did at school, suddenly my normally talkative child draws a complete blank and clams up. What gives?

It’s probably not that she truly doesn’t recall her day. “Almost all preschoolers and early elementary.

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