The first was that children lack the mechanisms to do this. Many things must be set in motion for a memory to be created in the brain. Another is that children lack any kind of narrative or vocabulary to describe an event. Even children go through destruction or neurogenesis. Neurogenesis is the process of creating new neurons and this can disrupt circuits in the brain that make you forget things. Additionally, it is easy for children to confuse their own memories with those of other people if they are similar to an existing memory. The author provides a good example of this situation. “For example, you meet someone and remember their name, but then you meet a second person with a similar name and you get confused about the first person's name.” As children grow, their memory improves and they become less likely to succumb to these things. Something the author only lightly mentions is her interview with another psychologist named Patricia Bauer. The memory describes how to make jelly. Take the Jell-O mixture; pour it into a mold and place it in the refrigerator. The problem with the mold is that it has a hole and all you can hope for is that it solidifies in the mold before too much comes out