Your kids aren’t growing up too quickly, but your brain sure thinks they are

Saturday, June 20, 2020 - 16:10 in Psychology & Sociology

It might seem like time is flying faster when you're raising a child, but the reality is that the world is turning the same. (Kay/Unsplash/)Keith Payne is a professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This story originally featured on The Conversation.I’m one of those men for whom it is impossible to find Father’s Day gifts.I don’t wear ties. My socks are all the same, in the interest of efficiency. I enjoy cooking, which would seem to open up some possibilities. But I have an annoying habit of buying useful gadgets as I need them, leaving my relatives to purchase paper bags specially designed for storing cheese, say, or devices that carve vegetables into the shape of noodles.With sympathy for my family, the truth is that my favorite Father’s Day gift this year has been the gift of time. Or more precisely, a...

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