\u201cGo upstairs, get your shoes and brush your teeth.\u201d By the top of the stairs, half of it is gone. Young children can hold only a little in mind at once, and every distraction can push a message out.<\/p>
Zuli is sure the message is safe: \u201cSaturday, two!\u201d Then come the shells, the bubbles and the race, and at Drew\u2019s door the words have floated away. The shame and frustration are real.<\/p>","problem_image":72,"solution_heading":"Plant It, Then Water It","solution_body":"
Marina doesn\u2019t tell Zuli to try harder. She explains that important things are seeds: if you only hear them, they drift off, but if you plant them, they take root. Stop for a moment. Say it out loud. Say it again. Picture it growing. Then water it by repeating it on the way.<\/p>
Zuli tries again, and this time the message arrives. The refrain gives your child the steps: \u201cWhen something\u2019s important and I need it to stay, I plant it like a seed so it won\u2019t float away.\u201d<\/em><\/p> At the back: a note for grown-ups on working memory, scripts for planting memories together, conversation starters and activities.<\/p>","solution_image":71,"inside_heading":"Look inside Remember & Grow","inside_intro":"A few watercolour pages from the story. Tap any page to see it larger.","inside_1":70,"inside_2":69,"inside_3":68,"inside_4":67,"benefits_heading":"What Your Child Takes Away","benefits_body":" Remember & Grow replaces \u201cWhy don\u2019t you ever listen?\u201d with a strategy children can actually use, and a shared phrase for instructions, errands and school mornings.<\/p>","benefit_1_title":"Forgetting Isn\u2019t Failing","benefit_1_text":"Children learn that messages slip away for everyone, so a mistake doesn\u2019t turn into shame.","benefit_2_title":"The Memory Garden","benefit_2_text":"A picture that makes remembering feel like something you do, not something you either have or don\u2019t.","benefit_3_title":"Say It, Repeat It, Picture It","benefit_3_text":"Three active steps that help a message take root.","benefit_4_title":"Ready for Instructions","benefit_4_text":"Practise with multi-step tasks at home, one planted seed at a time.","author_eyebrow":"From the author","author_heading":"Why I Wrote Remember & Grow","author_body":" I\u2019m Ujjwal Ganesh, father of two daughters. I noticed how often I repeated myself, and how bad my girls felt when something slipped away. Planting a message together, out loud, worked far better than reminding them again.<\/p> Remember & Grow is Book 4 of Little Brains, Big World, rhyming picture books in which Zuli the Octopus learns one everyday thinking skill per book.<\/p>","schema_description":"A rhyming picture book for ages 3 to 6 about memory: Zuli the Octopus learns to plant important messages like seeds in a mind garden so they don\u2019t float away. Includes a parent guide and activities."},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ujjwalganesh.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ujjwalganesh.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ujjwalganesh.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ujjwalganesh.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ujjwalganesh.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ujjwalganesh.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ujjwalganesh.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ujjwalganesh.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ujjwalganesh.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}