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Why time moves differently for parents and children

I watch my 3-year-old play and an hour feels like forever to her but to me it is gone in a blink and I cannot figure out how to slow down enough to meet her where time actually stretches.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The compression of adult temporal experience creates distance from the expanded present that children naturally inhabit.

Ideas that help explain it
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