Every parent knows the struggle of children on long car journeys, but why do they find them so much more excruciating than us adults?
as we get older. This is typified by the sensation that “Christmas comes around more quickly each year”.
Time is thought to pass more quickly as we age because, with increasing age, any duration of time becomesof our life to date. For example, at seven years old, a year is 14.30 per cent of your entire life; at 70 years old it’s only 1.43 per cent of your life. As such, a five-hour car journey may feel longer to a five-year-old than to a 50-year-old, simply because it is a greater proportion of the five-year-old’s life.a greater understanding of distance and geography.
For example, on a journey from Manchester to Devon, I know that I’m roughly halfway there when we clear Birmingham, and this knowledge helps to structure the time for me. I also have access to the satnav, which provides an arrival time and warns me about upcoming delays. The absence of this knowledge in children means that they are more reliant on asking adults how long is left to judge the progress of the trip.
This is because temporal uncertainty, or the feeling of not knowing when something will happen, can slow the passage of time. As adults, many of us have significant experience of this. Think back to the last time the train inexplicably stopped just outside the station, or when the “wait” sign flashed endlessly in. I bet neither of these delays flew by quickly – and that an update from the train driver or airport staff would have been very welcome in these moments. It’s the not knowing, the lack of control, that causes these events to drag.
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