Life With Marlene

Recovered Memory

Today, in the Children's Services class, the professor mentioned that children younger than 8 or 9 shouldn't really read historical fiction because they do not have a good grasp on the concept of time.

I wanted to tell my class how true this was. For I learned about time the hard way.

When I was seven, I was thinking about what I knew of history, which was not much. I asked Marlene, "Mom, when you were a kid, did they have fire?"

Somehow, that is the wrong question to ask a parent. I never understood why she screamed at me for it.