And our memories aren’t just suspecetable to suggestion. We are all unreliable narrators of our own stories as we go through life.

A competing theory, known as systems consolidation theory, instead proposes that memories are initially stored in the hippocampus but are gradually transferred and strengthened in other brain regions over time. The most important thing a man can know is that, as he approaches his own door, someone on the other side is listening for the sound of his footsteps.”— Clark Gable He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse, And they all lived together in a little crooked house.”— English Nursery Rhyme Celebrate the positive.– Celebrateaccomplishments, find the good in challenges… helpyour spouse and childrennotice what’s good and live with hope.Celebrate working together. Celebrate family. Schedule family time.– Eat dinner together often, have game night, story night, or movie night; read together, go on family outings, laugh together, worship together, and pray together.We need help to jog our memory. "When we're younger, an internal cue — just thinking of something — can help retrieve a memory," Dr. Budson says. "But when we're older, we rely more on external cues to retrieve memories, like a sound or an image." Cue the memory The concept of home isn’t always pleasant. Here are some sardonic comments about the realities of home – and a few funny nursery rhymes that we thought we would throw in. Don't be afraid to use humor when funeral planning. Sometimes a funny quote is appropriate – even when writing a eulogy. Repetition of stories helps us to consolidate our memories of what happened to us – so-called episodic memories. If we can’t socialise as much, perhaps it’s not surprising that those memories don’t feel as crystal clear as usual. I personally am inclined to approach housework the way governments treat dissent; ignore it until it revolts.”— Barbara Kingsolver Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.”— John Howard Payne

Sometimes memories of certain experiences remain crystal clear for life, like the moment you said "I do," or the first time you held your baby in your arms. Other significant memories from long ago can be harder to recall. But they may still be with you; it just takes effort to retrieve them. Which memories stay with us? There are, of course, several different types of memory. Forgetting what you intended to buy is different from forgetting someone’s name or what you did last Wednesday. But research on how memory works points to several ways in which our newly constrained environment could be having an impact. Does the word “home” make you think of family and love? Here are some quotes that give positive and negative views of the home. We think they pair perfectly with songs about family. One of the major problems with legal cases involving false memories, is that it is currently impossible to distinguish between true and fictional recollections. Efforts have been made to analyse minor false memories in a brain scanner (fMRI) and detect different neurological patterns, but there is nothing as yet to indicate that this technology can be used to detect whether recollections have become distorted. These mechanisms are simple, but the implications are profound. According to the theory, you’re most likely to remember memories from contexts that are similar to the context you’re in now. Because your mental context is always changing, your mental context will be most similar to recently experienced memories. This explains why it’s harder to remember older events.

Memory goes downhill after age 30. "There's good evidence that our ability to retrieve information peaks between ages 20 and 30. By the time we're in our 50s, the frontal lobes, which are in charge of searching for memories, don't work as well as they used to," Dr. Budson says. Of the many memories you accumulate every day, only those marked as meaningful are recorded in your brain's long-term files. "We have a system in our brains that tags memories that are important in some way so we'll remember them in the future," explains Dr. Andrew Budson, a neurologist and chief of Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology at VA Boston Healthcare System.

As corny as it sounds, to me, home is where the heart is… So moving houses is just another way in which I get to experience life.”— Ellen DeGeneres Be kind.– Sometimeswe treat complete strangersbetter than the people with whom we live. Talkand act at homein ways that show your family how much you love and value them. The difference between a house and a home is this: a house may fall down, but a home is broken up.”— Elbert Hubbard The reason may tap into something far deeper in the human condition – we crave a cohesive narrative of our own existence, and will even invent stories to give us a more complete picture. This phenomenon isn’t limited to physical locations. You may have noticed that when you’re sad about something, you tend to remember other sad events from your life. This is because your mood and emotions also comprise your mental context. Experiments have confirmed that memory is enhanced when your current mood matches the mood in which you learned the information.A memory of a beloved grandparent or long-gone family pet can bring us happiness, whether it is fictional or not. Limits on socialising within care homes and in some cases a ban on any visitors for many months seems to have taken its toll. Details of significant experiences from decades ago may still be available if you can coax them out of your memory.