What can you remember from when you were 5?

Answer 1

I remember asking the teach if I could go to the restroom and before she could answer... i did it right there beside her.

Answer 2

Everything. I have an eidetic memory, which means everything I see, everything I hear and everything I experience, I never forget.I can remember entire conversations between groups of adults from when I was about two years old. I don't consider myself to be a particularly intelligent person, just that I do possess a more or less faultless memory. Whilst this may sound like an incredibly useful gift, it can at times also be the most terrible burden in that there are certain events in my past that I would dearly love to be able to erase from my memory once and for all. But then,I suppose a lot of people would say the same.

Answer 3

I remember almost everything from when I was five. I am now 40. The most vivid memories are the ones that come forth while I am watching my kids play. I also remember my father leaving my mother, because it felt like he left me too, I stood there and cried and cried as he got into his car and drove away. Now I know it was the best thing that ever happened to me. My mother raised me to be a caring and kind individual and I have the best step father anyone could ask for. I know my bilogical father but had he not left, I would not have been blessed with such a loving home.

Answer 4

Good question because, strangely, certain events at that age are life-changing! I remember my father coming home from the war (WWII); someone I'd never seen before! Up until then, my world centred around my mum, my auntie (who was eleven years older than me, so like a big sister, really) and my two grans. My world of females was suddenly shattered by the arrival of this man who suddenly took charge of everything. Quite traumatic, especially when 9 months later a little sister arrived. I'm 63 now and it still rankles when I care to think about it - although that's not very often for obvious reasons!!!!!

Answer 5

Hello Princess Gabi,

It is very nice to see you back asking questions!

When I was 5 (or just before), the war was just ending and I remember being taken down the village to see the pretty lights that someone had put up on their gates. In those days there were no lights outside - no street lights or anything like that were allowed after dark in case the German bombers saw them. Cars had their headlights shaded and if you needed to go outside when it was dark, you had to have a very dim torch or just get used to the star light or moon light. It was very amazing to see bright lights on someone's gates or anywhere outside! I think it was the first time that I had seen different coloured lights, too - red, green, yellow and blue bulbs. It was VERY pretty.

I also remember the first fresh banana I ever saw (up till then I had only ever seen dried bananas, which had a funny smell but I quite liked them). My mother mashed it up and made it into a sandwich. I didn't like it at all and spat it out! Now, of course, I LOVE bananas.

I do hope that you will remember lots of things that happen now you are five! Are you making a scrap book or a diary to remind you? We did that when my children were little (mostly for holidays) and now that they are grown up and as old as your mummy and daddy, they just love to look through those books.

Answer 6

.I can remember when I was two and three-quarter not allowed outside because the snow was too deep.

When I was three we went camping with the neighbours, I can remember the cows walking past the tent in the morning, and kicking a football and running away and leaving it because a tractor was coming towards me, I went back for it later. When we went home it was still dark, I found out years later we did a bunk because the farmer charged such an outrageous price no-one felt like paying!

Five - I started school, and remember the first thing the teacher asked me to read Here is Tip, Tip is a dog, Tip has a ball.

Oh and my baby brother was brought home to live with us. I was told Mummy had a headache, she was in hospital for what seemed like ages (10 days!) and I thought if you wanted a baby you just went to the hospital and got one!

Answer 7

I can remember being in a garden with my parents when probably about one year old. At 5 I have a clear picture of me and my cousin with our mothers walking up to school for the first day, and the joy of our shoes clacking on the corridors, and getting a medal and a gold star for good behaviour!! Wouldn't happen now. And I remember my father spanking me over the bum for wandering everywhere but home after school. And playing on the street with my brother's pedal car. I still have a good enough memory for the past but not for what happened yesterday!! Old age perhaps. Oh, and I remember throwing a snowball and breaking our neighbours window and begging their son who was a lot older not to tell and he did!

Answer 8

I can remember from being 2 -3yrs old. I remember being at home just with ma and waving my siblings off to school. I started school at 3, well a class attached to the school for three year olds. I recall having canvas beds where we all had an afternoon nap and the sand pit and singing nursery rhymes etc
I also recall the day my dad came home from the war.

Answer 9

I can remember being shouted at by some snooty warden at Caernarfon Castle in Wales for shouting and jumping up & down on the seat on which Prince Charles was crowned Prince of Wales. It was removed from that spot some years later as all the little kids probably did it. That was 1972!

Answer 10

I remember that used to not be able to use my index and middle finger to represent the number two or little bunny foo-foo, so I used my index and thumb. I remember I had a crush on Lindsay Davidson, and we used to have story time with this giant book in Kindergarten. And I could count higher than anyone in my class.

... but that's about it. I drink a lot now, and that's kind of killing the memory...

Answer 11

i remember going to school with my two older sisters for the first time and it was just a few buildings away and i was not yet 4 but i do remember it well