Capturing my children beaming at my mother helped me see her through the lens of their honeyed love for her. Rather than how I all too frequently saw her through a lens muddied by decades of mutual disappointment. | SamanthaSMorris
of van Genderen’s family creating a grocery store in their kitchen for Hendrika to go “shopping”, which aired in part on theand racked up more than nine million views online – that continue to aid the van Genderen children’s development, say their parents.
And being able to see the videos as they get older will likely help both children to understand what helped shape crucial parts of their personalities. And, says clinical psychologist Mary Spillane, watching videos of shared experiences can help all parents and children to bond, regardless of their family situation.
“It’s called the recency effect; that the last thing you’ve seen can colour how you feel about someone,” says Spillane. “We often tend to, when we’re thinking about people or things that happened, it’s often the last thing that happened that we draw most meaning from.
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