Why babies’ experiences matter (even if they can’t remember them)

A happy father feeding his baby. | Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty Images No matter how hard we try, remembering anything that happened to us before the age of, say, 3 or 4 years old feels impossible. Even memories before 7 years old feel hazy and fragmented. Our brains just aren’t built to store specific memories from our first few years, something known as “infantile amnesia.” And chances are, even the earliest memories we think we have might just be amalgamations of stories we’ve…