> The childhood memories we retain most searingly tend to involve shame. I too have vivid images from a shameful episode in kindergarten. One of them was peein

> The childhood memories we retain most searingly tend to involve shame. I too have vivid images from a shameful episode in kindergarten. One of them was peeing on myself because I did not know how to ask for the bathroom in German, it was a German oriented kindergarten and it was in my first days. My mom withdrew me from there after the incident because they let me wet for a whole day, though I don't think it was their fault but mine. I still vividly remember that when I think about kindergarten. My son is now about to go to kindergarten and I had a funny flashback the other day.