Family memories are worth celebrating, especially during Family History Month.
Family stories are part of everyday conversation even if they're just brief tellings of past experience.October is Family History Month, a month dedicated by Congress to the idea that preserving and sharing our family histories is important. Indeed, increasing numbers of families have begun researching their genealogies, trying to fill out family trees with great-grandparents and great-great-grandparents – who they were, and when and where they lived.
Family stories are more complex than you might imagine. They certainly include family history, stories of our forefathers and foremothers, about whom we may only have a few bits and pieces of information. But most family stories communicate the experiences of people we know: our parents and grandparents when they were growing up and forming young families.
Family stories are rarely purely one type or the other but intermingled in everyday conversation. A family that starts talking about a beach vacation they took together may lead into the mother telling a bit of a story about a beach vacation with her own parents when she was a child, leading into a story about the whole family going to the beach for a big reunion the previous summer.
Family stories do not have to be momentous tales. Sometimes they are fully complete, as in the family story that is told every holiday dinner in great detail and with much enjoyment. But most family stores are told in small moments: a few sentences shared during cooking together, or in the car, or seeing something resonant on TV.
Take the time during Family History Month to research your family history and share the details you learn. But also take the time to savor small moments in everyday conversation with your family. Family stories come from familyis the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Developmental Psychology at Emory University and the director of the Family Narratives Lab.As the lines between real and fake blur, Americans increasingly chase the idea of authenticity.
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