By Larissa Marulli, Moms, September 23, 2021
When it comes to our children and lives with our families, making memories is a vital part of the whole experience. We can only live in the present and ultimately when our kids are grown up and move out, all we will have left are the memories that you made. While that can be a sad way of looking at parenting, it is the reality of it all.
This chaotic time of child-rearing that involves school, friends, homework, sports, playdates, mood swings and so much more won't last forever. Childhood is fleeting. So what can you do? Make all the happy memories you can cherish in the future. In order to make memories that last and continue to make us happy as the years go on, science says we should make more memories with others, more specifically with people we love. A Psychology Today article about memories highlighted a study that found a direct correlation between how fondly we remember something and who we experienced that memory with. The study was published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology General and published by authors Megan Speer and Mauricio Delgado.
Speer and Delgado did their own research and created their own study to take a scientific look at memories and what makes them even more meaningful and positive. The two researchers gathered willing participants to pick their brains about their memories. The study participants were given cues to remember certain life experiences. They were then asked how positive that experience was and the rate that experiences from low to high. Respondents also had to specify if the memories they were talking about involved other people, and if so, who and the type of connection.
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