What is one of your earliest childhood memories?

Question

To list a few: getting my ears pierced at 2 1/2 ; my first day in pre-school at 4...both of these were accompanied with enormous fear. Is this why we have difficulty recalling anything else early in our life unless it was "shocking" to us in some way?

and yes, I do remember flipping my baby sister's crib with her in it when I was 5 (don't ask what happened afterwards) :)

Batty - now that really made me laugh! Now tell me that fear has nothing to do with what you've experienced!!

Answer 1

I vividly remember getting my diaper changed once by my sister and her boyfriend, Larry. I don't recall how old I was but I must have been pretty young because I was in a crib. Larry hung around for years. Not for the diapers though. My sister ended up marrying someone else. Larry moved to Canada to avoid the draft in the 60's.

I also remember starting my dad's brand new 59 Chevy station wagon the day he brought it home from the dealer. I was 4 and he left the keys in it. He wasn't very happy with me and mom wasn't very pleased with him. Oh, the two of them could shout...
Dad's gone, mom's still with us.

Answer 2

At three, my dad was a firefighter, he had no choice but to take me on a call with him. A little girl found her fathers hand gun and shot herself in the head, I remember my dad coming back to the truck covered in blood thinking he was bleeding. Even more scary is the fact that the company I work for now owns the vineyard and the house. I went there for the first time a month ago and had dejavous(spelled right?) in the driveway.

Answer 3

I remember being in my stroller at Sutter's Fort and the Winchester Mansion in California. I was about 13 months old. I don't remember fear. But I did feel confused about what I was seeing.

Sutter's Fort had life sized mannequins in rooms posed to show everyday life at the fort during the gold rush. I remembered seeing a man (fake one) through the bars in a door. It troubled me. Then I remembered seeing stairs that didn't go anywhere, doors in the ceiling and windows in the floor!
I was 13 and in 8th grade before I went to Sutter's Fort and the Mansion on a class trip and realized that these things existed. I thought I had dreamed them up! I asked my parents and they were amazed because I had been so little but I could recount actual events to them of that trip as a baby and they confirmed them.

Answer 4

Most of my earliest memories no one can pout a year to it.I can remember wearing a Dipper and crawling over to the piano and seeing the baby pictured on the air pomp pedals.The piano is a Earlie 1900's player piano.I could have seen it in 1960 when I was 3.That's when my perants bot their house.Some of my memory's have come to me in my dream's.I have seen in my dreams what the basement was like as we moved in.It was big and emtie.No fear just wonder.

Answer 5

this is complicated to preserve long-term thoughts beforehand the age of three. the seen time to a baby differs from that of an person. My earliest memory is whilst i become 4 years previous, and that i become strolling interior the lake on the community park. A stranger grabbed me and took me to the police station the place I performed Mr. Potato Head and ate donuts till my mom freaked out and picked me up.

Answer 6

mine is a shiny grass picnic. When I was about 1 1/2 years.
It is not a memory of fear, but joy.

I don't know much about how that works, there should be psychology books about it, though.

Answer 7

i remembered when i was 3 years old i played with my baby sister, we were sharing our toys and both of us were laughing like crazy XD yay i remembered my grandma used to give us candies to eat and i used to ride on my own little triciclein my house and my parents are all cheering for me ^^
hey, try to remember something good from your childhood too, because that was the happiest time of our lives ^^

Answer 8

How bizarre...I agree! My first memory was being banged in the head by a tire swing, and my Gramps laughing his jollies up at the sight! LOL