Parent-child reminiscing influences children's memory development. Although surprisingly understudied in the field of pediatric pain, parent-child language-based interactions about past negative events, play a powerful role in how autobiographical memories of those events are subsequently retrieved and reframed. Parent-child narrative style also influences children's coping and psychological functioning. Young children whose parents are topic-extending and elaborative (e.g., who ask open-ended questions to pull for richer, more detailed accounts of the past) and who use emotional language, have children who are more accurate and detailed in recalling their pasts, which is adaptive. Similarly, our recent data provides strong evidence that parents who reminisce with their children about a recent surgery using a particular style (i.e., more elaborative, less topic-switching) and content (less content about pain, fear, medical procedures; more explanations) have children who later remember pain a more accurate/positively biased way.