Robyn Fivush

Quite frankly, when I would ask her questions about her past, my past, my family's past, the answer was always, why do you need to know that? It's over. It's past.

Quite frankly, when I would ask her questions about her past, my past, my family's past, the answer was always, why do you need to know that? It's over. It's past.

I didn't really notice it until... I didn't notice it until I met my first husband's family. And I started to spend a lot of time with them. And they were a huge family, a family storytelling family. They told stories... like many, many families, all the time. But they had all the kinds of family stories. They had the everyday, tell me about your day-to-day, what happened, sharing their home.

I didn't really notice it until... I didn't notice it until I met my first husband's family. And I started to spend a lot of time with them. And they were a huge family, a family storytelling family. They told stories... like many, many families, all the time. But they had all the kinds of family stories. They had the everyday, tell me about your day-to-day, what happened, sharing their home.

I didn't really notice it until... I didn't notice it until I met my first husband's family. And I started to spend a lot of time with them. And they were a huge family, a family storytelling family. They told stories... like many, many families, all the time. But they had all the kinds of family stories. They had the everyday, tell me about your day-to-day, what happened, sharing their home.

Remember, this is like when we went to the beach last summer. And they had the big, iconic stories. Every Thanksgiving, every Thanksgiving, the story about how One of the uncles crashed the car through the trees when he was a teenager, had to get told. And it had to get told the same way with the same punchlines every year.

Remember, this is like when we went to the beach last summer. And they had the big, iconic stories. Every Thanksgiving, every Thanksgiving, the story about how One of the uncles crashed the car through the trees when he was a teenager, had to get told. And it had to get told the same way with the same punchlines every year.

Remember, this is like when we went to the beach last summer. And they had the big, iconic stories. Every Thanksgiving, every Thanksgiving, the story about how One of the uncles crashed the car through the trees when he was a teenager, had to get told. And it had to get told the same way with the same punchlines every year.

And I started to realize how important that was to keep that family cemented as a happy, healthy family.

And I started to realize how important that was to keep that family cemented as a happy, healthy family.

And I started to realize how important that was to keep that family cemented as a happy, healthy family.

Everybody knew every detail of this story. If you told it the wrong way, everybody would correct you.

Everybody knew every detail of this story. If you told it the wrong way, everybody would correct you.

Everybody knew every detail of this story. If you told it the wrong way, everybody would correct you.

I think it was obvious. I mean, it was such a contrast that it was so different than the way my family interacted.

I think it was obvious. I mean, it was such a contrast that it was so different than the way my family interacted.

I think it was obvious. I mean, it was such a contrast that it was so different than the way my family interacted.

I was interested in how families, particularly mothers, talked with their three-, four-, five-year-old children about the events of the child's life. So we did a lot of work where we would visit families in their homes and hang out with them. And then we would explicitly ask mothers to sit down with their child and talk about some things that have happened, some special occurrences.

I was interested in how families, particularly mothers, talked with their three-, four-, five-year-old children about the events of the child's life. So we did a lot of work where we would visit families in their homes and hang out with them. And then we would explicitly ask mothers to sit down with their child and talk about some things that have happened, some special occurrences.

I was interested in how families, particularly mothers, talked with their three-, four-, five-year-old children about the events of the child's life. So we did a lot of work where we would visit families in their homes and hang out with them. And then we would explicitly ask mothers to sit down with their child and talk about some things that have happened, some special occurrences.