What do you think to the term “making memories” in regard to pretty normal stuff like say soft play or cinema

[JennyTals]

I mean I kinda get it if you’ve been to somewhere wonderful like on a really nice holiday or something

Yes, it seems even memories have been turned into a commodity, to be manufactured.

One of my favourite memories is a picnic at the beach and my mum had made a jam and coconut loaf cake. My mum does not enjoy cooking so a homemade cake was a rare treat.

I think the whole 'making memories' is a bit silly.

But I have happy memories of my childhood from exciting things and also really mundane things that my parents remembers, like my granny always letting us mess up her room trying on her high heels and jewellery and not letting our parents tell us off at her house.

I do also remember exciting cinema trips and holidays. I remember finding certain supermarket trips exciting if I got to choose a PEZ. But as previously posters have said we can't really pick and choose what children remember. If we just give them a happy life then what they remember should hopefully be happy.

Vomit inducing phrase in whatever context it is used but I'll be honest I probably judge slightly more when it's used in a post about an expensive or over the top holiday / experience rather than a more mundane activity like soft play, picnic etc - as in there's no need to justify your two week trip to the Maldives with your one year old as 'making memories', or worse 'core memories', just crack on and enjoy the trip, post a few pictures without pretending it's for your kids, it's fine to enjoy a fancy holiday, nice day out or whatever without it needing to have some deeper significance.