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What does it mean?
Children perceive time in suffering as endless, magnifying their distress.
In plain terms
Kids feel bad times will never end because they lack perspective.
What can you take from it?
Children’s sense of time makes suffering feel permanent.

Where it applies

  • parenting
  • education
  • child psychology

Putting it to work

  • explain time to children
  • provide reassurance
  • validate feelings

Questions to consider

  • How does time feel different to children?
  • How can we help them cope?

Another view

Adults also feel time dragging during pain.

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