whats your earliest memory

[evedawn]

following from a thread about what we miss from childhood got me thinking...whats the earliest thing you can remember (good or bad) and what age were you?

I remember being lifted onto my dads shoulders in a safari game park - my parents say my approx age at thetime was about 18months old!

[mrs_overall]

Climbing onto a deck chair and one of my older siblings kicking the support at the back so the whole thing collapsed on me.
We moved house a month before my third birthday so I know for sure I was only 2 at the time.

[evedawn]

haha - thats traumatic for a toddler mrs o - hope you reminded your siblings of that over the years many many times. :-)

[ummmm]

Sitting out side my house playing in the dust at the kerb side in my knickers. Not everyone was a paedophile then...!!!

It was the hot summer of 1976 and I was 3.

[evedawn]

yeah - i know what you mean ummmm - we always used to run around half starkers when we were small. I reckon there were plenty paedophiles about though - just not so talked about? what a horrid world when little kiddies have to cover up cos of sick perverts.

[ummmm]

I know. Sad isn't it :-(

[rinkins]

Dad pushing me in my pushchair to go see my Mum at work. (2 ish)

Then I remember them getting divorced and giving me nightmares (6)

Standing on the back of an empty trolley in a car park which promptly tipped over landed on me and I grazed all of my back. (4)

Funny the bits we remember!! I thought my memory woudl be shutting down by now!

[craft1948]

god yes ummmm - I remember playing just in my knickers on the bombed out land next to my grannys. I must have been about 3 'cos I hadn't started school. I used to play with the romany kids who camped out there.

[mrs_overall]

My other traumatic incident as a toddler was when my oldest sister was carrying me and dropped me....face first into the coal scuttle.
I still have the scar, but oh boy have I had some mileage out of that one!

[chrisrob]

I'm a twin. My earliest memory is breast feeding (YES!) and mymum telling me the other side was for my twin!
I also remember being in an old fashioned pram with my twin at the other end, one hood was up and the other was then closed, blocking out view and I cried.

[evedawn]

yup it is odd the things we recall rinkins - but it's so sad about you remebering your parents divorce :-( pity we don't only remember the good things ay!!!!

[Barmaid]

I remember playing with my sister under my grandmother's hospital trolley bed. She died when I was 3.

[evedawn]

oh chrisrob your breastfeeding mammary (oops should be "memory" haha) should get squad trying to remeber (in anotehr recent post he said he misses "bitty" haha)

[joggerjayne]

Straw hats ... hundreds of them !

My childhood years were a strange blur of straw hats, with different coloured ribbons signifying ... something or other ... I don't know.

I think I remember my first day at Pre-Prep when I was two and a half, but I sometimes wonder if that's just from seeing the "first day" photo so many times.

[horselady]

Being pushed in my pushchair by my older brother who asked if I wanted to get out and walk, I said no and then changed my mind and stood up on the foot rest and tipped out face first on the pavement. I was 2. I can remember a lady coming to help my brother mop me up and try to stop the screaming (me, not him, he did that bit when my Mum clouted him for not looking after me properly)

[ummmm]

I remember I was about 5 and decided to make my Mum a cup of tea. When it had boiled I poured it down my front. Again I was only in a pair of shorts. Luckily my Mum got my in the sink in time so my skin didn't wrinkle. I had a brown scar all over my whole stomach until my teens.

[annie0000]

I can remember lying in my pram listening to the rain on the hood. Must have been a baby - can aslo remember sitting on a kerb playing in the dirt while my mum was hanging out washing - we moved from that house when I was 13 months old.

[joggerjayne]

Injuries and Knickers seem to be featuring quite heavily so far !!

[evedawn]

most of your earliest memoris seem to be between ages 2 and 3 - i wonder if that's when we "psychologically" become aware that we aren't the centre of everyones universe I've no idea about child development but i wonder...

[ummmm]

I still think I am evedawn....!!!