tell me your earliest memory from childhood

catefrances

mine is climbing trees down the south coast(of nsw) collecting cicada husks

and

sitting on a bed making a lunar module(apollo 11) with my da.


i guess im talking im about 4 years old here.


you all?

Black Diamond

Watching Armstrong Land on the moom on TV with the whole neighborhood.

I was just short of 3.

KosmicJelli

I remember being born, seeing the lights and thinking ... awww fuck not again!

comebackwoman

I have a few that I think were from all about the same time. My favorite is being at my grandmother's house while my mom was in the hospital giving birth to my brother. I remembering sitting on my grandmom's lap while she told me stories about her dog and about a fox that used to come into her yard. I was a little less than 4 years old.

chadwick

same here
i remember being born

Jeanie

I remember opening the shed down the back yard to let the doggy out and the doggy, which was a greyhound, SPRANG through the gate and ran right over the top of me, scratching me to buggery because I was only in a nappy, and I remember lying out on the grass screaming and Mum came and picked me up. I think I was 18 months old.

There are others but I'm not sure of the chronological order of them.

HailHailVitalogy

hurricane fuckin andrew

i lived in miami at the time, and i remember just hiding in the closet with my mom and puppy wondering where my dad was...and hearing all the windows break, sounded like a war was going on right outside our door....during the eye i remember my mom telling the dog to watch me and she left us in the closet...i opened the door a crack and saw that our house was half gone...it started up again and my mom came running back, and our dog pinned both of us down to protect us

when all was said and done, i remember what it looked like when we first opened the door.....no living room, half a kitchen, garage caved in, half a roof, 2 bathrooms destroyed....but not a scratch on the car


i was 3...i really only remember being in the closet (no pun) and what the house looked like when we first got out

xavier mcdaniel

going to san diego when i was four in 1983.

CityMouse

I'm not sure, but I think it's flying on a plane at age 2.

_Crazy_Mary_

I was two years old, digging in the backyard with a plastic spoon and my spoon broke. :(

curmudgeoness

-- Watching the lunar landing; I was six months old.

iamsampj

i remember flying from germany back to the states when i was 2 1/2, almost 3. i sat w/ my dad on the left side of the plane, while my mom and sister sat in the middle. i remember eating jelly beans and gummy coca cola bottles with my sister.

i remember most vividly the fact that as we were getting ready to land, the captain announced that we were now in the united states of america. i remember people cheering and a few people waving flags...i'm thinking this had to do w/ the fact that there were probably a lot of people in the army (my dad included) that were being transfered from germany back to the states.

ANYWHO...i got really excited because i thought that the captain said united "steaks" of america...and that i was going to be eating steak for dinner i was quite disappointed.

Allie

my father assaulting my mother with a telephone cord.

writersu

It is Greek Easter and all of my uncles are playing some game, with cigarettes, and some with drinks, I would imagine as well.
I am like 4 years old. I am in my Uncle Louie's backyard where he always roasts a whole lamb and all of my Greek relatives are there. I am one of the youngest kids there, I have only two boy cousins who are even close in age. So I am running into where they are playing and I grab what appears to be a hoolahoop and start to pointlessly try to make it go around ........

My uncle, one of the guys playine darts apparently, yells, "Hey get the hell out of there!!"


fuzzy memories...........but they are so strong...........

kcherub

I remember standing at the front door of our house, behind the screen door. My Daddy was coming down the road on a tractor and our Great Dane, Patton was running beside him. My "Nanny" (really just an older woman who baby-sat me, but everyone called her "Nanny") was standing beside me. I don't remember seeing Patton run under the tractor, but I do remember that he did. He was killed. I don't remember it as being all that traumatic--I was only 3, so I wasn't aware of the life and death thing yet.

For years, I always thought it was an older black gentleman driving the tractor. Just a few years ago, my Mom told me that the tractor did belong to a man that worked on my grandfather's farm, but he was not driving it that day. I haven't looked at my Daddy the same since then. LOL

So, maybe I don't remember it all that clearly.

in_hiding79

Allie wrote:

my father assaulting my mother with a telephone cord.

:eek:

I'm so sorry Allie!!

small town beck

I remember an old apartment my mum and I had... before some burned the building down :eek: :( . I remember biting my sister and when I saw she was bleeding I ran to my grampie for defense in my defense she was pinning my arms down and I told her I would bite her if I she didn't let go I was probably like five

SDHSClassof82

Black Diamond wrote:

Watching Armstrong Land on the moom on TV with the whole neighborhood.

I was just short of 3.

Mine is also watching the moon landing, laying on the couch, alone with my mom in the *middle of the night*. I was three also. I recently found out that happened at 8pm in my time zone. My mom has no memory of it ,and it's curious I don't remember my Dad, my brother or sister being there. So it's a little mysterious.

Lizard

I remember skipping around my mom's chair as she sat with my new baby brother just home from the hospital. I was about 3 years old.

Allie wrote:

my father assaulting my mother with a telephone cord.

- Damn!! Sorry about that.

DonJon

I remember two things (not sure which one came first) and think I was about 3.

Laying face down in brown fluffy carpet at the bottom of about 5 stairs and crying. Mum has since told me I was trying to 'surf or slide' down them with my foam paddle mat from the pool.

The other was a birthday party (still 3 I think) where the gas bottle on the BBQ exploded and one of the mums was covered in flames. I remember a massive flash and noise and the men trying to roll her on the ground.

small town beck

DonJon wrote:

I remember two things (not sure which one came first) and think I was about 3.

Laying face down in brown fluffy carpet at the bottom of about 5 stairs and crying. Mum has since told me I was trying to 'surf or slide' down them with my foam paddle mat from the pool.

The other was a birthday party (still 3 I think) where the gas bottle on the BBQ exploded and one of the mums was covered in flames. I remember a massive flash and noise and the men trying to roll her on the ground.

Well the first one was cute but the last one... sad and so scary.