A happier human experience might be fundamentally derived from learning to see time through their eyes.
The topic of discussion in my family is whether time passes the fastest or the slowest.
My son exclaims, “Slowest in the car!”
“Never!” my daughter responds. “I’m too busy for time to go slow, but maybe on weekends when we are on the sofa watching movies.”
There is also considerable agreement that the days following Christmas and their birthdays pass slowly as they realize they will have to wait another 365 days to celebrate again. When they get older, the years appear to go by forever.
It’s an emotion I vividly recall from my summer vacations spent playing in the sea and skipping on it.
the clothes hanging to dry on the line while the sun scorched. It felt like time was moving more slowly at those kinds of situations.
Children and time, according to Teresa McCormack, a psychology professor at Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland, is a subject that has received very little research. Her research has long examined whether there is an underlying difference between children’s and adults’ time processes, such as an internal clock that runs more slowly in youngsters. However, more questions than answers remain.
