I have played many matching games with my children over the years. You know the kind: Lay out the cards face down. You take turns flipping two of the cards. If the two match, you keep them and take another turn. If they don’t match, you flip them back face down and your turn is over.

My kids always beat me at those games. It isn’t even close. It is like the Yankees playing a little league team. And they show no mercy, usually running the board once we are down to about half of the cards left. Once a card has been turned, they can remember it. They’ve got minds like a steel trap, locking in the position of every card that has been exposed. I on the other hand, have a mind like a broken sieve, letting each cards position slip right out of my mind. I can only get a vague sense of where it was, and rarely do I find the card again. And rarely do I get the chance to even try a second time, since they snag most all the cards I expose.

But after years of knowing this to be a fact of life – all my kids have dramatically better short term memory than I in playing these matching games – I can now proclaim it as a fact instead of just being my opinion. Because now there has been a pseudo-scientific STUDY proving it.

Headline Reuters: Small Kids Have Better Memories Than Parents-Study

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Next time, maybe you’ll believe your kid. Small children apparently have better memories than their parents, researchers reported on Thursday.

They found a 5-year-old could beat most adults on a recognition memory test, at least under specific conditions.

So who says there still aren’t things left out there to discover? Maybe I can do a STUDY on who likes playing freeze tag more, children or adults.