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Why you don't remember being a baby

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Dropping a toddler is bad, but at least they won't log it in their permanent record. The hippocampus is simply too underdeveloped in the first few years of life to form cohesive episodic memories, creating a convenient blank slate for all your earliest parenting mistakes.

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