Earliest Memories of Childhood

climaxer · 10-09-2004 04:04PM

Going Demented wrote:

Another early memory is Santa bringing me a little red piano that had it's on little stool and everything. I have 8 older siblings and the eldest of them and my folks were out drinking xmas eve. Santa must have came when they came home. I got up out of bed with the racket out of them and low and behold my toys were there. I pulled out the piano and before i even got to play ONE key of the thing my big lanky drunk as an ass brother decided to sit on it to rest. The four legs flew off and he landed on his ass on top of the remainder of the piano. When he stumbled off it and stopped laughing i lifted it up and all the keys fell out of it! 20 years later i'm still bitter. I could have been a damn fine pianist but i never got the chance. ~sniff~

Aww thats so sad - I bet you always remind your big bro about it every xmas! I had a little blue piano that I got for my 4th birthday and I loved it - wish I had kept it. Thats another thing that annoys me is I kept none of my old toys. Would also love my dolls house back and my little record player with the plastic records.....

[Preacher] · 10-09-2004 04:29PM

embee wrote:

A more vivid memory involves being set upon by a trio of marauding sheep on my way home from school when I was four. They chased us, knocked me and my brother to the ground and proceeded to bounce up and down on our ribcages.

rofl, quality.

blondie83 · 10-09-2004 05:00PM

My earliest memory is when I was aged 3. I was in my playschool, and my little sister aged 1 1/2 was there as well for some reason, sitting beside me. Every day we had to take it in turns to walk around the class giving everyone a plastic cup with an orange drink in it, and a digestive biscuit. I remember this day it was my turn to bring around the drinks, so I gave them to everyone then went back to my seat. When I got there, and I have a very vivid picture of this, my drink was spilled on the desk, and my biscuit had been half eaten. My little sister was looking away guiltily, then turned to look at me - I'll never forget the look on her face, she seemed so sad or something. I don't remember being angry about it, in fact I don't think it even occured to me to be angry with her. I just sat down and ate the rest of my biscuit. It's funny what sticks in our heads!

ando · 10-09-2004 05:50PM

going to my first day of school and balling my head off

frodi · 10-09-2004 06:28PM

Pulling a clockwork wind up boat around on a string in the fountains in St Stephens Green. I must have been 2 or 3 at the time as we moved out of the area when I was still 3.

Blitzkrieger · 10-09-2004 06:43PM

cujimmy wrote:

Going to a dance with my father and coming home with my mother

Your real name isn't Oediphius is it?

(I know, crap spelling)

My earlist memory is climbing out of my cot to play with my sister. I used to be able to get up on top just fine, but I could never climb down, so I basically used to just fall off. I don't remember much since.....

Must have been about 18 months

Hello Kitty · 10-09-2004 09:28PM

Oh i actually remember when i was younger i used to collect every single insect in my garden and put them in a box, from ladybirds to beetles....
and id even collect little baby lizzards... i can remember there tails coming off when id pick them up!!eeewww

Now that i think about it, it was disgusting and i would never do that now. :eek: :eek:

simu · 15-09-2004 12:37AM

This memory seems early (it's from an ant-like perspective) and is not reconstructed from photographs.

At grandmother's house. I go into the living room where all the agults (parents, uncles, aunts, grandparents) are. My father and one of his brothers are standing in the middle of the room. All the adults are looking at me and I get annoyed and run to my father and put my arms around his ankles. Then I realise I've picked the wrong man - it's actually my uncle so I move back and change over to my father. All the adults laugh at this.

Lucy Lu · 15-09-2004 08:22AM

I was about three, we were moving house and Mam let me pick the wallpaper for my new room. Big Mistake. For the next five years I had to look at 4 walls covered in clowns.

littleninja · 15-09-2004 09:13AM

I was 2 and we were living above a shop. Our neighbour had offered to repaint the windowsills to our place as he was doing his own anyway.

He left methylated spirits in a green 7up bottle, I saw this bottle on the windowsill and as it was fairly low, I was able to get the bottle, the last thing I remember about it is actually putting the bottle to my lips (ya know how kids put most things in their mouths).

After that I don't remember too much about the incident, apparently my mum heard me coughing outside and when she realised what had happened, it was a trip from Monaghan to Dublin to get my stomach pumped. Had my parents really worried because we were going to Dublin again a week later and apparently I was sick again, so it was another trip to the hospital.....

which was nice!!! :rolleyes:

Grimlock · 15-09-2004 10:39AM

Guess mine would have been bout 3 when I was taken to play school, by my mother, my gran-aunt and my little bro. I was showered with compliments all the way down and then left, it was like a primal panic when they left.

Like all the other kids I settled in quick and my next memories are playing with friends at play school. which is a lot less tramatic!

LadyPenelope · 15-09-2004 06:35PM

My earliest memory is about three months before my second birthday. It was Christmas and cold and frosty and i was very ill. I was carried from the car by my dad into my grandparents house, all the time i was wrapped up in one of those red oxford type wool blankets. Up until a year or so ago, i had thought i was about five or six when this happened.

I also remember my first day at school, and on the morning of the second day telling my mum that she did not need to walk me to school anymore, i could go by myself, i was four.

Dutchboy · 15-09-2004 08:56PM

I only remember back to when i was 6. Me and my bro were messing tidying up a small castle/keep building and he was dropping stones on2 the grass from the top, and i carted them away. As u'd probly guess, he dropped one on my head as i was lookin up.
permanent scar on chin, lots of blood, remember it well!

Shoolaboola · 16-09-2004 01:26PM

I have two...both from holidays in wexford, one was me sitting in a high chair, my dad runs in and says "the mackerel are running" and i remember having a picture in my head of little black fish running all over the floor....strange how i knew what a mackerel was back then.

The other one was when i was at a lighthouse on Hook Head (oldest working lighthouse in Europe), i was in a double buggy with my brother who is a year and a half older, my aunt and two cousins had come over from England, my little jack-russel dog hoover was there, and my two cousins were wearing weird sunglasses that i remember disliking.

Hagar · 16-09-2004 02:27PM

I remember going to a disco with my father and coming back with my mother

^whitey^ · 16-09-2004 04:28PM

Hagar wrote:

I remember going to a disco with my father and coming back with my mother

HaHa

My earliest memory is eating beatles yes beatles at the back door of my house can't remember what age I was.

ballooba · 21-09-2004 03:44PM

Another early memory I have is when i was two and a half. We were witing ouside of playschool for my older sister to come out. Somehow I managed to open the screws on the (glass.. it was the 80's) sunroof. Itr was a windy day and onbe push from my little hand was enough to send i flying off into the ditch.

My dad had to go around for weeks with fertiliser bags on his roof while he waited for a replacement from the breakers.

Kêrmêttê · 21-09-2004 04:26PM

I have many memories from my early childhood, but, I'm not sure what chronological order they came in. Unfortunately, they are all rather strange, so I shall describe my LEAST strangest memory;

I was roughly 2 yrs old and had just suddenly woken up for some unexplained reason. I was sitting in my cot. It was late in the evening, but everyone was still downstairs watching the tv (I could hear some form of a football match coming from the living room).
I uncomfortably found myself sitting on some strange lumpy formations, which I retreived from my nappy, and decided that I didn't want really to inspect them after all. These newly discovered "treasures" were fired by my good self accross the room and rattled down the back of the wardrobe.
I then felt that this was slightly wrong. At such a tender age I did infact have a concience and I thought that I should alert someone.
After a bit of wailing and flinging toys on the ground my parents and older brother stampeded into my room to check on what was going on with me.
Unfortunately, being so young and inexperienced in the ways of the world, I had not yet mastered the art of conversation. My gesticulations and squeaks in the general direction of the wardrobe resulted in the nightlight being switched on for the remainder of the night (it was sitting on top of the wardrobe).
To this very day I never ever remember anyone finding my "little treasures".
Hopefully they disintigrated with time.

By the way... I have other early memories... all more weird and strange than the last :eek: And as I've grown older... very little has changed!

Blitzkrieger · 23-09-2004 08:00AM

^whitey^ wrote:

eating beatles

Cannibal.

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Oh! You meant beetles!

PH01 · 23-09-2004 08:56AM

Dana winning the Eurovision (little did we know then).

^whitey^ · 23-09-2004 10:11AM

Blitzkrieger wrote:

Cannibal.
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Oh! You meant beetles!

Whoops yea beetles...excuse my spelling. I cant remember what they taste like though

mike65 · 23-09-2004 06:54PM

ando wrote:

going to my first day of school and balling my head off

I did that on the second day! When the penny dropped....12 years!!!!!!!?

Mike.

Pet · 24-09-2004 02:24AM

Blitzkrieger wrote:

Cannibal.

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Oh! You meant beetles!

I was waiting for someone to say something.

Earliest Memories of Childhood

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