RE: THE ART OF HONEST SWINDLING.
Deception vs Inception:
My mind can be similar. I agree that adding details can lead towards deception, etc, in some cases. Well, it depends. I remember when my mom got hit by a car when I was three years old in November of 1988 in Oregon, USA. But if I said that I remember wearing a red shirt, I'd be lying.
Abstract Memories
I remember bits and pieces from 32 years ago but not a lot. I can remember thinking about thinking when I was seven on our way to California. I was thinking about the concept of eternity.
Facts vs Fiction
If I said that I thought specifically about 2020 during our bus ride, then I'd be lying. But I can say some things about my memories of experiences and of some of my dreams and some of my thoughts.
Counseling Children
While training to become summer camp counselors, we would learn to avoid trying to force things into the mind of children, well at least not too aggressively because you can sometimes get kids to kind of say things or think things that are not accurate enough concerning their memories, their lives.
Direct vs Indirect
So, we were taught not to always be or to never be too direct in questions. Like in regards to if they were abused by their parents or others. Kids can sometimes mix fact with fiction. Well, we all can. But as we get older, we can grow in the ability to be able to separate between the two. But it can be hard.
Psychology vs Archeology
So, I have had different classes during college concerning psychology, sociology, anthropology. I know that psychology should be dealt with more like archeology as to say one step at a time with a comb.
I can verify what you say about children. Adults often demand details about events from them or try to find out the reason for something they interpret as a lie. But a child of five or six years of age, for example, has a different view of things. If you ask too much for a "why", children often say what the adult expects them to say unspokenly. Because they often do not know why they did or did not do something and think much less about a "why".
I agree, it can be hard not no mix fiction with facts.
Interesting that you thought about thinking and eternity when you were such a young age. Car drives are seemingly particularly promoting those kinds of reflections :) I have no specific memories from that age.
I thought about thinking as a kid. You say you didn't. And that is the beauty in the diversity of people. Meaning, people are different. Now, people talk about equality. And that is fine if we are talking the equality of rights, opportunities, etc, perhaps. But some people try too hard to force all children to be identical to each other and that can be problematic. People can learn in different ways, at different speeds. So, teachers should try to customize educational curriculum to best fit the uniqueness of individual students as they go down specific paths. In other words, vocational training.