problems with memory in a 6 year old?

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In the last couple of weeks 6yo DD seems to be struggling with her memory. We have always had repetitive questions and she does struggle with reading which even the teacher has commented on saying it seems like a problem with remembering and recalling the sounds to make the words.

But recently the repetitive questions feel less like normal childish incessant behaviour and more a genuine forgetfulness. For example she will ask me what is for dinner completely genuinely as if she doesn't know she already asked 30 mins ago. If I say I already told you she looks at me totally blankly. As well as this, she forgets other things. Yesterday evening we went to a shop, and today she asked me, what shop did we go to again? Did it have toys? Even though she was looking at the toys for ages while I was looking for other stuff. That is just one example, but this has been happening more and more.

She is well generally really well behaved, polite, has good manners and no behavioural issues. She is social, makes friends easily and loves talking to people and there has been no stress or major upheaval recently.

Does anyone have any experience of this? Is it just one of those things or something to be concerned about do you think?

Given my late teenager will repeatedly ask what are we having for tea despite having been told earlier I'm not so sure - is it a post-school tiredness thing or not?
You could get one of those card matching games where all the cards are turned over and you turn one card over and try and remember where the other matching one is to play with her and see how she gets on?

I did think it could be tiredness but it happens at the weekend too when she is well rested. I did wonder if it was related to using her tablet distracting her, but the use of that is regulated and she didn't have it last night at the shop she now can't remember.

She isn't great at those matching games. We have a few and we did some on the computer a while ago and she struggled.

For so long I put it down to normal child behaviour/tiredness/being distracted, but in the last two weeks there is definitely something niggling about it. Maybe I am just overthinking it though.

I should add that the niggle began when we were having a conversation in the car last week and halfway through she just stopped speaking. She had totally lost her train of thought. I know that happens to adults, it happens to me now and again, but she was mid sentence and she said What are we talking about I can't remember? That happened two or three times that afternoon to the point I said to DH that is a bit odd. He is a minimiser so he is no help.

I would take her to a GP. Make a little note of each episode of forgetting and going blank for a couple of days. Perhaps when you get there it might seem normal or there could be some symptoms among them thay are more concerning.

Get her checked at the GP-theyll know if it's something that needs investigating or not.

Bless her, sounds horrible for her

Definitely GP to investigate if there is an issue,