What is your saddest childhood memory?

Question

Mine is when my dad took me to the vets with our dog and we found out she had to be put down.My dad was a builder and I had never seen him cry before so I was really shocked to see him cry.

jeeze I am now in tears reading all you answers I wish I hadn't asked I am going to bed xxx

Answer 1

I was 6 years old. It was September 10th, 1996. The next day was going to be my mom's birthday. She had been downsome lately and my dad and i had organised a surprise party for her to have some fun with her friends. That morning i remember i was having breakfast and saw my mom past by to the kitchen. I thought of telling her my dad and i had prepare all that because we love her and we didn't want her to be sad or worried. But i just thought i would tell her afterwards, when i'd come back from school and meet her up for lunch. I came back and she hadn't arrived; my dad had already. We ate and there was no signs of her. I was watching tv and my dad recieved a phone call. He didn't say a thing except from "I have to do something. I'll leave you with granny." At night my dad picked me up and took me back home but i hadn't seen mom. I didn't ask a thing; he didn't seem good. September 11th i went to school to be picked up a few hours later. I saw my dad talking to the principal and told me we were going to granny's again. Once at my grandma's place i saw our luggage at the front door and my dad sitting at the living room. He told me to come and sit on his knee. I did so. He told me my mom had had an accident and was at the hospital, that we would be staying there until she would come back. She never did.
A week or so after i saw my dad crying(for the first and only time) and told him "Daddy, i know you are sad because Mummy is at the hospital but soon she'll be back and everything will be ok." I was so naive. He said, "Mummy is dead, sweetheart." I remained frozen for a couple of minutes and then cried my eyes out. I was only 6 years old, in some days it was going to be my own birthday and my biggest fears had come true - i had lost my mom.
The hospital thing was a lie i never questioned until i was 15... when i got to know she had died instantly, tragically and suffering.
It's been almost 11 years now. I still live at granny's with dad and granny, of course. I still wonder if she'll ever come back from the hospital. If that surprise party will ever take place. If i will ever be able to tell her "I love you, mom. We've prepared all this for you." If i'll ever be able to see her again, for my last look at her was that foggy morning that will always linger inside my mind. That moment in which she walked past me towards the kitchen, telling me to hurry up or i'd be late... that moment in which i postponed those words i will not ever postpone again. "I love you."

Answer 2

My parents had just split up (I was 5 yrs. old) and my mom was dating my soon to be step dad. My real dad came to the house to see us but my mom told my step dad to answer the door and say we weren't there. My mom and I were standing behind a wall, only ten feet from the front door and she told me to be quiet and I listened. That was the last time I heard my real dad's voice. Now my step dad has become my dad but I still wonder sometimes what would've happened had I spoke up and said we were there.

The saddest moment, in my adult life, was finding out that one of my brothers had been killed in a car accident. I was 20, he was 18.

Answer 3

The years we had to eat twice a day. I and my family couldn't feed properly.
My mum used to go about borrowing money from friends and she would be unable to pay some of the people back.
Also i didn't live with my dad for nine years. I was 6yrs then but now i am glad that we all live together.

Answer 4

Dad was teaching me to swim in the deep end. My mom had my 4 month old baby sister in the shallow end. She dropped her glass in the pool and cut her foot. Called to my dad who let go of me and went to her aid.

Next thing I know I am on the side of the pool and some guy is pushing on my chest.

Answer 5

Wow, that is a sad memory. For me it would have been the day President John Kennedy was murdered. Even tho I was a Republican at the time as a student it was like getting kicked in the guts, it just tore me up, and it tore up the whole country.

Answer 6

I was 8, my hamster Fred died, my dad wrapped him in tissue paper and buried him at the side of the house.
My Uncle came to visit, found me distressed and said if i watered the grass every day were Fred was buried, i would grow a hamster tree, and i did every day without fail, and it never happened......
Still traumatises me now Lol

Answer 7

Losing our house (for closure) having to move out in the middle of the night and leave the bikes we had just got for that Christmas.because we couldn't afford a u-hall big enough to take everything .
then also before that i remember running out of food in our house for a few days at a time .then finding neighborhood kids to go play with and try to get them to get us snacks to eat because we were hungry

Answer 8

When I was younger I felt so helpless while watching my mother being beating by my father. The same feeling struck me when she past away. The mother of five God rest her soul.

Answer 9

Halloween night 2003. My step dad was murdered in our living room. It took me so long to get over it.

Answer 10

Mine was when my dad came to pick me up and take me up north and I said "No" because I wanted to stay home and watch TV. He's so awesome and I should have spent every second I could with him.