Boy, 2, Found with Decomposing Mother

[snopes]

A woman's decomposed body and her malnourished and dehydrated 2-year-old son were found by police investigating a foul odor in a locked apartment.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...ODY?SITE=FLTAM

[Mouse]

There's really nothing more I can say than this: Oh My God!

[Syllavus]

Oh that poor little thing. What a terrible ordeal to have to go through. I hope for his sake that he doesn't remember this as he gets older.

[Tori]

Poor baby. Stories like this break my heart.

[bobs]

sadly not an isolated case; a similar case

poor little lad, I would hope that he's too young to remember this awful thing.

[Forgotten Fay]

That's horrible. Sadly, being such a tramtic experiance, he's likely to remeber it. It's normally that or compleatly forggeting, I hope the poor dear goes through the latter.

Most people can't remember things before 4 years, at earliest 3, so he won't remember it, although when he actually reads about it, I'm sure false images will be put into his head. O.o

[Syllavus]

Originally Posted by Master Jaken

Most people can't remember things before 4 years, at earliest 3, so he won't remember it, although when he actually reads about it, I'm sure false images will be put into his head. O.o

I'm one of the odd balls who can remember stuff from when I was just over 1 year old. I read somewhere that when a kid begins to develop long term memories might stem from when they start to verbalize. I talked early, so there might be something to that. Hopefully this kid doesn't wind up remembering this though, what awful memories those would be.

[llewtrah]

Originally Posted by Master Jaken

Most people can't remember things before 4 years, at earliest 3, so he won't remember it, although when he actually reads about it, I'm sure false images will be put into his head. O.o

I have some clear memories from about 18 months - clear enough to surprise my parents. I think semantic memory begins - on average - from about 2 years.

[Lady Moon]

My father's little sister died of spinal meningitis when she was eighteen months old and he was just barely three. And he clearly remembers her being ill and her funeral. And everything after that -- he has an eidetic memory and it's fascinating to me that it began with the trauma of his little sister's getting sick when he was so young.

His brother, two years older than he was, had absolutely no memory of his sister at all. I remember that they used to have arguments on how my father could remember things when Don was older and couldn't remember her at all.

Lady "fascinated" Moon

[Seraphina]

I think it is very difficult to know what exactly we remember and what we remember because we heard heard people around us to talk about it, or seen photos when we were just little bit older. Some of our brain neurons do not connect properly until about 36 months (?) and therefore we do not have memory of our birth and early childhood.

[missy_pooh_1997]

That story is so sad. Afew months ago I had read all these stories In the St.LOuis Pst Dispatch about all these senselss deaths of children b/c social services is so understaffed and the ones there often falsify records when they dont check up on children. The one that really made my heart break is a little boy who died of dehydration after his mother died alone in the house. He had tried to nurse so hard he had broken her skin. I just feel so bad that she could be dead for a week and nobody cared enough to check on them.

[JessBoo]

Originally Posted by Seraphina

I think it is very difficult to know what exactly we remember and what we remember because we heard heard people around us to talk about it, or seen photos when we were just little bit older. Some of our brain neurons do not connect properly until about 36 months (?) and therefore we do not have memory of our birth and early childhood.

There are things I remember from when I was about 2 that no one has ever talked to me about, and I've never seen photos of.

Whether we "remember" them or not, It still effects our sub-conscience on one level or another.

[quiltsbypam]

Originally Posted by missy_pooh_1997

That story is so sad. Afew months ago I had read all these stories In the St.LOuis Pst Dispatch about all these senselss deaths of children b/c social services is so understaffed and the ones there often falsify records when they dont check up on children. The one that really made my heart break is a little boy who died of dehydration after his mother died alone in the house. He had tried to nurse so hard he had broken her skin. I just feel so bad that she could be dead for a week and nobody cared enough to check on them.

I used to have a fear of dying while the quiltlet was a baby. We're close to my folks and all, but it could have been a couple of days before we were missed.

I don't know why I even worried about it -- I'm pretty healthy and all. But I would worry once in a while. But now she's 9, so that's not a concern any more.

[llewtrah]

Originally Posted by Seraphina

I think it is very difficult to know what exactly we remember and what we remember because we heard heard people around us to talk about it, or seen photos when we were just little bit older. Some of our brain neurons do not connect properly until about 36 months (?) and therefore we do not have memory of our birth and early childhood.

I can describe places and events to my parents. These aren't events or places they've talked about to me, nor do they have photos. My memories are clearly through my own eyes, for example I can remember sitting on the bottom stair playing with a large-piece jigsaw while dad had one of his friends (Mike) to visit. Many years later, I described this memory to dad who confirmed the event and the friend's full name. One is a memory of being toilet trained; I was allowed to wear proper knickers (she told me they were a present from daddy), but the excitement caused me to wet myself and mum put me back in the cot as punishment. This isn't something she's ever told me about. I can remember it for myself. My memory certainly goes back to about 18 months, albeit patchy at that age.