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Why do car rides feel endless to children but short to adults

My eight year old keeps asking 'are we there yet' every two minutes on car rides and I lose my mind because to me it feels like we just left but to him it must feel like hours.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The adult experiences the compression of time while the child experiences its infinite expansion.

Ideas that help explain it
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“Where Are You with Children and time — how they experience it?”

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