{"id":7362,"date":"2014-06-11T15:17:12","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T15:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=7362"},"modified":"2014-06-11T15:17:12","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T15:17:12","slug":"family-stories-are-important-for-childrens-health-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/family-stories-are-important-for-childrens-health-happiness.html","title":{"rendered":"Family Stories Are Important for Children\u2019s Health & Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everyone loves to hear their old family stories.<\/p>\n

We constantly hear from our GenealogyBank members of the powerful family stories that they have found in old newspapers. Stories drive us to keep researching and piece together the fabric that makes our family histories come alive.<\/p>\n

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It turns out that these family stories are even more important to our children\u2019s health and well-being than we had previously realized. Recently researchers have found that:<\/p>\n

The more children knew about their family\u2019s history, the stronger their sense of control over their lives, the higher their\u00a0self-esteem and the more successfully they believed their families functioned. The “Do You Know?” scale turned out to be the best single predictor of children\u2019s emotional health and happiness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So\u2014genealogy is not just fun\u2014it is an important predictor of our \u201cchildren\u2019s emotional health.\u201d<\/p>\n

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I encourage you to read the entire article about the importance of sharing your family\u2019s stories with your children, titled \u201cThe Stories That Bind Us\u201d by Bruce Feiler, published in the New York Times<\/em> (New York, New York), 15 March 2013. See: http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/03\/17\/fashion\/the-family-stories-that-bind-us-this-life.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&<\/a><\/p>\n

Also, make sure to follow our \u201cGenealogy for Kids\u201d Pinterest board for more interesting articles like this and to get fun ideas to introduce the youngest leaves on your family tree to their ancestry: http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/genealogybank\/genealogy-for-kids\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Everyone loves to hear their old family stories. We constantly hear from our GenealogyBank members of the powerful family stories that they have found in old newspapers. Stories drive us to keep researching and piece together the fabric that makes our family histories come alive. It turns out that these family stories are even more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[7183,3732,1658,2233,2465,7184,12,7182,6475],"class_list":["post-7362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-bruce-feiler","tag-children","tag-family-history-2","tag-family-research","tag-family-stories","tag-feiler","tag-genealogy","tag-genealogy-for-children","tag-genealogy-for-kids"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}