Talk to your child about past and future events. For example, talk about what your child will do at childcare tomorrow, where you went yesterday, and who you saw or where you are going tomorrow.
Research has shown links between mother-child conversational interactions during events, and children's subsequent recall of these events. In a longitudinal investigation, 21 mother-child dyads were observed while they engaged in specially constructed activities when the children were 30, 36, and 42 months of age. Analyses of the children's one-day and three-week recall of these events indicated that at all age points, activities that were jointly handled and jointly discussed by the mother and child were better remembered than activities that were either jointly handled and talked about only by the mother, or jointly handled and not discussed.
Children also develop better autobiographical memories when parents elaborate and reminisce more often.
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