How well do you remember your childhood? (if at all)

jimgoose · 18-07-2015 11:13PM

Mam of 4 wrote: »

Crazy isn't it ?! I remember in 2nd class my Grandfather dying and the nun asking me why I hadn't been in school and I told her, also had a note , and she told me that was no excuse and proceeded to dole out five hard wallops across my hand with the big stick. In front of the Parish Priest in the class.

Different times , memory is a funny thing really

I dearly wish one of them tried that with my Chungwan, so I could roundhouse the cnut in the ear-hole.

Sunflower 27 · 18-07-2015 11:15PM

I had a difficult childhood so maybe that is why I don't remember many actual events. I recall more the feelings I felt.

I've had this conversation with friends before and I think I have always remembered the least.

First memory was my 2nd birthday and eating cake out of a green bowl. Its pretty hazy then until specific things like getting my photo taken when I made my communion or a Christmas morning when Santa was particularly generous

Mrs Fox · 18-07-2015 11:15PM

'77. I've pretty impressive early childhood memories, as early as 3.

Is it also freaky that I can remember some dreams/nightmares I had from age 5? It stayed with me till today.

Mam of 4 · 18-07-2015 11:15PM

jimgoose wrote: »

I dearly wish one of them tried that with my Chungwan, so I could roundhouse the cnut in the ear-hole.

Many a visit was made to the nuns and christian brothers by my Mam

Sam Kade · 18-07-2015 11:16PM

Mam of 4 wrote: »

My first teacher in baby infants was a nun also, she's still alive ! Now she was an absolute dote who loved children . The rest of them in the school I went to ? Think they saw us all as sinners who had to be punished just for existing .
Sorry for going off topic, that could be a thread on it's own

Mam of 4 wrote: »

Funny thing about it is I'm glad I was born when I was , instead of nowadays

I remember our house having no running hot water , tin baths , frost on Inside of the windows in the winter

Old army blankets on our beds , the old grey ones , lots of things

Also huddling around the fire to catch any bit of warmth coming from it. When you sat too close for heat you would end up with chilblains. The hot water bottle was great for warming the bed. We used to toast the bread in front of the Stanley holding 2 slices with forks. Jaysus you're bringing back memories now

Cold War Kid · 18-07-2015 11:16PM

ThomasFlynn wrote: »

I'm just curious about how much the average adult can remember their childhood. I've always felt I was able to recall memories from my childhood in better detail than most other people. I’m in born in 1986 and I can for example, remember all the years of the 1990s in terms of which year in school I was in, who my teacher was, who my friends were at that time etc. I can recall individual conversations, even from as young as 4/5/6 and recall a lot of my childhood in reasonably good detail. If see the year '1994' for example, even though I was only 8, I can recall what I was doing, where I was roughly etc.

Same here. Born before you but I can remember specific years from a very early age also. I wouldn't have been aware at the time that it was e.g. 1983 but I now know different specific stuff from that year (e.g. starting primary school).
From age about seven (1985) onwards I was aware of years.

Red21 · 18-07-2015 11:19PM

I remember getting into a big long winded tale with a nun on my "mock" first confession, all about not sharing a bag of sweets with my siblings in the correct order.
You can be dam sure I had my story straight for the big day.
1/I disobeyed my parents
2/I forgot to say my nighttime prayers
3/I told lies

Mam of 4 · 18-07-2015 11:21PM

Sam Kade wrote: »

Also huddling around the fire to catch any bit of warmth coming from it. When you sat too close for heat you would end up with chilblains. The hot water bottle was great for warming the bed. We used to toast the bread in front of the Stanley holding 2 slices with forks. Jaysus you're bringing back memories now

Exactly

good memories , maybe hard times but lots of experiences that children now will never have , the good outweighing the bad .

We toasted bread the same way, on a Stanley cooker also ,picking mushrooms putting them on top of the cooker with a little salt on them, then trying to pick them up and eat them without the juices either spilling out or roasting you

Sunflower 27 · 18-07-2015 11:25PM

Red21 wrote: »

I remember getting into a big long winded tale with a nun on my "mock" first confession, all about not sharing a bag of sweets with my siblings in the correct order.
You can be dam sure I had my story straight for the big day.
1/I disobeyed my parents
2/I forgot to say my nighttime prayers
3/I told lies

So cute.

Mine was:

I fought with my brother and sisters and I took extra biscuits from the biscuit tin

I too had it worked out well in advance. I blurted it out soooo fast.

jimgoose · 18-07-2015 11:30PM

Mam of 4 wrote: »

Many a visit was made to the nuns and christian brothers by my Mam

Shortly after I started secondary school, I had to visit the little school-book shop on-site to get books. My dad gave me a blank cheque that morning, to get whatever had to be got and have done with it. The man in the black dress commanding apparently had some sort of problem with that, so a very annoyed Goose Snr. had to go out of his way the next morning, waiting in his huge black Granada until 9am or whatever middle-of-the-day hour these gowls roll out of bed, to explain to him how business is done. I had no more probkems.

Mam of 4 · 18-07-2015 11:36PM

It was normally our poor Mam who would go in to the teachers as we'd come home roaring at lunchtime telling her whatever brutality had happened that day

A quiet woman but an admirable adversary to the teachers , if we hadn't actually done something wrong , apart from not being well off . Still proud of her

jimgoose · 18-07-2015 11:39PM

Mam of 4 wrote: »

It was normally our poor Mam who would go in to the teachers as we'd come home roaring at lunchtime telling her whatever brutality had happened that day

A quiet woman but an admirable adversary to the teachers , if we hadn't actually done something wrong , apart from not being well off . Still proud of her

We were reasonably well-off and there was usually no disagreement with staff until they directly insulted us, such as for example implying that the cheque was no good. This kind of thing is not tolerated from the hired-help.

monkeysnapper · 18-07-2015 11:44PM

I can remember my mum asking me to come in from playing to watch Charles and Diana wedding. I was 5 and I remember that pretty well.

My mum left my dad when I was 4 and I remember him leaving and all that sh1te .

When ever I hear abba songs / queen / and other old classics I get feelings I can't explain but assume it's from a very early memory because of my mums love of music

Two Sheds · 18-07-2015 11:54PM

I have a crystal clear memory from when I was only a few months old.
It was my "hey, I'm here" moment.

Filmer Paradise · 19-07-2015 01:09AM

Yeah remember most key events.

First memory was very intense.

Waking up tossing & turning in blankets, finding it hard to breathe.

After the inital struggle I ran out of breath quick & somehow knew death was close. Funny thing was, was that it was not scary in any way. I just started to drift away peacefully....

Next thing my Mother pulled off all the blankets & I could breathe again! I remember her face & it seemed strangely impassive.

This happened in the late 1960's

Many years later I told this story to the girl that was to become my wife. I'm sure she took it 'with a grain of salt'.

Soon after she met my Mum, & the story came out again.

Apparently, my Mother had left me up for my afternoon nap & continued about her business.

My late mum in fairness was a bit oblivious sometimes, but on this occasion had a feeling something was 'wrong'.

She rushed up the stairs to find me trapped under the blankets & got me out. She never knew how close she'd come to seeing a cot death happen.

The future Mrs Paradise was floored when she heard my Mum relay the tale from her perspective...

the_syco · 19-07-2015 01:19AM

cloud493 wrote: »

I remember the first film I saw in the cinema, some birthday parties, thats about it.

I don't remember much, but sometimes I read something like the above, and get a very clear picture of an event that I was at, where I was at, who i was at it with, but dates and how old I was I wouldn't know.

Red21 · 19-07-2015 01:42AM

Sam Kade wrote: »

We used to toast the bread in front of the Stanley holding 2 slices with forks.

this made me cry:o

Sam Kade · 19-07-2015 09:01AM

Red21 wrote: »

this made me cry:o

Why? Try it some time if you have a stove and sample some real toast

Sam Kade · 19-07-2015 09:14AM

Red21 wrote: »

I remember getting into a big long winded tale with a nun on my "mock" first confession, all about not sharing a bag of sweets with my siblings in the correct order.
You can be dam sure I had my story straight for the big day.
1/I disobeyed my parents
2/I forgot to say my nighttime prayers
3/I told lies

Sunflower 27 wrote: »

So cute.

Mine was:

I fought with my brother and sisters and I took extra biscuits from the biscuit tin

I too had it worked out well in advance. I blurted it out soooo fast.

I used to say
I cursed
I didn't do what my mother told me
When I was heading for 16 it was starting to sound fairly stupid, then one day the priest gave a sermon about people having the same sins every time they go to confession he was more or less telling them to go and commit different sins or else he was starting to get bored of listening to the same thing over and over.

Herpes Cineplex · 19-07-2015 05:38PM

I can remember maybe half a dozen vivid memories before my 5th birthday but that's it. And my regular memories only seem to start from when I was 10. I have a very vivid memory of lying in my cot on a gorgeous summer day with the lace curtains blowing in a gently breeze. My mum told me that was the house we were in, before we moved to our permanent family home. The weird thing is, I was only nine months old when we left that house.

cloud493 · 19-07-2015 06:12PM

I remember when I was 8 or 9, and every birthday party was in this kids adventure playground, and when it was my birthday, I gave out invitations and all that craic, ended up by the time we got round to it, I was too tall to be allowed in, so while every kid in my class got to enjoy my birthday party, I had to sit with the adults watching :mad:

DColeman · 19-07-2015 07:35PM

Not an awful lot, and what I have remaining I'd rather get rid of it tbh.

Red21 · 19-07-2015 09:35PM

Sam Kade wrote: »

Why? Try it some time if you have a stove and sample some real toast

We used to toast bread like that!! This is a much more intense thread if you're pissed drunk reading it which I was last night :pac::pac::pac:

SharpshooterTom · 23-07-2015 10:38PM

Interesting responses guys, poll suggests I'm somewhat un-normal for remembering my childhood in as much detail as I can, perhaps my adult life needs to become more exciting as I thought.

How well do you remember your childhood? (if at all)

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