Comments on It's my life...: First memories

I love this post. It's so fun to think about y...

2009-10-22T14:28:48.129-07:00

I love this post. It's so fun to think about your first memories as a child and even more fun to wonder what little ones are thinking and feeling and remembering all the time. You've inspired me to do a related post :)

I remember, I'm standing in a crib that's ...

2009-10-21T12:59:23.143-07:00

I remember, I'm standing in a crib that's not my own. My parents are downstairs somewhere. There is a pink wall. 18 months?

this is very provocative. My little H is only two...

2009-10-21T09:11:51.077-07:00

this is very provocative. My little H is only two and I haven't thought about what will stay with her to adulthood. Let me tell you she remembers the goat that peed on the floor of the petting zoo from February. It's hard to believe she will forget that but I'm sure she will. My earliest memory is of my 4th birthday. I got a red umbrella.

This is such a thoughtful post. My boys are both p...

2009-10-21T03:03:23.187-07:00

This is such a thoughtful post. My boys are both past the "memory" mark, and I find that I go to bed some nights angry at myself for raising my voice or being hard on them or whatever. I just try to wake up the next day and try again. I think it's pretty much all we can do. Sounds like you are doing a great job! -H

My first memories were sometime between ages 2 and...

2009-10-20T22:11:19.293-07:00

My first memories were sometime between ages 2 and 4. We lived in a townhouse in St. Louis (only during those years). I remember the layout (bedroom at the top of the stairs, living room in the front of the house, kitchen in the back), my toddler bed sheets (Beatrix Potter), one particular nightmare involving an alien in the closet and the candy jar "hidden" high in a cabinet that my sister and I used to sneak to on Saturday mornings before my parents woke up.

Like me, my 6 year old has a ridiculously good early childhood memory. Sometimes there are awesome ones like when Ariel kissed him on the cheek at DisneyWorld when he was two. Sometimes they aren't so nice. ("Mom, remember when you had a baby in your tummy and then you didn't?") The best we can do is hope the good ones outweigh the bad. To help, practically speaking, photo albums are a great way to preserve good memories. We treat ours like bedtimes stories sometimes, reading them just enough to make sure not too much dust collects on them (the books or the memories).