"Once my toddler had a complete tantrum in Old Navy while my mom was visiting us. After we dragged her out to the parking lot kicking and screaming to save the sanity of anyone shopping, my mom turned to me and said, "You never had a single tantrum." Now... I guess she might know better than I do, but I also doubt that I was a perfect angel 24/7 throughout my terrible twos and threes."
"Over on TikTok, one mom, @allyglasgow, shared a couple of her favorite parenting "gramnesia" moments, and they're so relatable. "[My mom] said, 'All of you were potty trained by two. All four girls.' And I'm like... I just don't feel like we were... I mean maybe?' While that moment of gramnesia could have possibly happened, Ally goes on to say that the next parenting suggestion her mom had contains deep veins of gramnesia."
A toddler threw a complete tantrum in Old Navy and was carried out to the parking lot while a visiting grandmother insisted the child never had tantrums. Grandparents can misremember or idealize childhood behavior, a phenomenon labeled "gramnesia." A TikTok parent, @allyglasgow, shared examples including a claim that all siblings were potty trained by age two and a suggestion that children should not talk when they wake up. The parent, who has children aged four, two, and one, doubts those memories and rules were realistic. Commenters reported similar experiences of grandparents exaggerating milestones and inventing alternate childhoods.
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