If I can't remember stuff from five months ago, that's not good.

No way you remember stuff from when you're two years old.

Sure, I'll probably remember stuff like hair color or ethnicity, but the face will be a total blank.

Not sure this is the right section for it, but I also keep remember cool stuff you read about and then nothing.

Then she tried to remember other stuff she'd read, or things people had told her about.

"Most young people don't care enough about history to remember stuff like that."

Doesn't do a person much good to remember stuff that doesn't make any sense.

"You're supposed to be able to remember stuff like that."

Of course memory plays an important part but to help kids remember stuff it helps if they can see the point.

I may be an old guy, but the truth is old guys remember stuff real well.