what is your childhood?

My son has made me bitter short term, but mostly happy long term. Somethings happened in my childhood that made me bitter, but learning to cope with them and forgive, taught me how to be happier. I became happy realizing that I have the intelligence and strength to forgive the people that hurt me, and I've learned to feel for them because they will never feel the happiness I feel. Instead they will stay in their cycle of abuse until they learn how to better themselves like I did. I pray for them, even if it makes me cringe, I pray for them.

Unfortunately I did not have a great or even close to saying good childhood, one I would never care to re-visit. However I am an exception as I have raised two children all on my own. Always remembering that they were first and trying my darnedest to assure they had all they needed. Happiness and quality were my two concentrations as I did not want my childhood to be a repetitive lifestyle.

I will not consider my childhood as comfortable and easy, it is full of difficulties and hardship since my father passed away when i am only five, and the responsibility of taken care of all my sibling and me fall on the shoulder of my mother alone, every day life for me is not always end with going to bed at night with a full stomach fill with food or a room by myself fill with toys. Having say that, my childhood is still no lack of motherly 'love' and 'happiness' from my sibling and friends. I sure will not blame anyone or God for that matter as fate itself shouldn't dictate anyone future and decide one destiny. Anyone without a perfect childhood can still make it and shape his or her own bright future provided that person has strong wills inside him /her.

My childhood is all right, I guess. I spent it in Olongapo City but was confined to home, school, and church. Sometimes though, our maids would walk us through Magsaysay Avenue on Friday nights, or on Sailors' rest and recreation days, and my eyes marveled wide at the huge navymen in white, with the pillbox cap that lousily kept on their heads. We had a guava tree in the yard and I climbed it and stayed on it like a monkey. And I danced to the music of Trini Lopez' La Bamba. I made mudholes and rolled marbles in them, played tex tiya or taob, syato, Chinese garter, jackstone, habulan, moro-moro, taguan, ate ginataan, mais, nilagang saba, totong for merienda, and enjoyed camichile, mais, duhat, lanzones, mangga, atis at balimbing whenever it was market day... Now that you asked, I think I was a tomboy in my childhood. Gosh, I even rolled down the hill and scratched my arms wounded. I received severe spanking instead of nursing care. So, what do you think, was it a good childhood?

I am happy with my childhood. As early as age 7, i had been waxing floors and cleaning restrooms. Would you believe that during elementary and high school, my parents never gave me allowance?!!! Their reasoning is that we always bring lunch to school and we have someone who can pick and bring us to school. Have they been protective of me? I guess yes, they wont allow me to play with other kids on the street as cars would be driving by. They wont allow me to eat food on the booths outside our school too. Now what can i say about my upbringing, i believe it has taught me to be responsible and thrifty. Our family is not well-off, and i have never complained to my parents on how come i dont have allowances like my classmates do. When i had been hungry, i would always ask food from my classmates. Come to think of it, our school advisor notified my mom about my begging food from my classmates. From then on, my mom would give me biscuits for recess. It would be a lot challenging to mold your kids in todays' generation because they would tend to compare their stuff with other kids; like for instance, how come his classmate has a cellphone while he cant have one; and other fun stuff and gadgets. Good luck seventhbird. By the way, one more thing that made me a better person from my childhood was that my parents had been strict with my religious life. We would always pray the rosary as a family. I dont think though that i do have a religious life but i do pray the rosary daily and read about my faith from time to time.

I had a bad childhood and it made me see life in a bad way. I was smacked and whipped with a stick which made me hate my dad and my mum for not doing anything against it. It made me rebel against them and I never told them anything. I never give people the benefit of the doubt and now that Ive moved out try not to answer their calls. They never congratulated me for high marks and instead expected me to get them and if I didnt I would get in trouble and lectured about not studying enough and not being as good as my older sister; that only made me not really care about school and I dropped out in the last year. Please never hit your child, my partner is a psychologist and learnt that its proven that hitting your child is bad for them. Love him and ensure him that you will always love him no matter what and let him know that he can talk to you about anything. Best of luck

There were some good things about my childhood, and some not so good things about my childhood, but then again, I find it hard to find anyone who had a perfect childhood. Most of us have had some problems in our childhood.

For me, my childhood is not good. I don't want to remember other thing from past. actually i can easily forget the past but i think, i only remember few thing happen to me.

I have some wonderful memories of my childhood. My grandparents raised me and I loved them very much. My mother and father had seperated and went on to have second families so for some of my later childhood it bothered me that I wasn't a part of that. My grandmother passed when I was around 12 and I was left with grandfather. I had a bit of a tough time after that but my grandparents were very good to me while they were alive.

My childhood sucked. I had to constantly compete with my two step sisters and my brother, as I was the youngest. I got blamed for everything weather I really did it or not. Things never got better, and I was kicked out by the time I was 14. I had two jobs and was paying rent and was supporting myself. I feel that it made me a more mature responsible person. I knew the value of money at a very young age, and now my bills get paid before anything else.

At home with my parents I had a great childhood. I got disciplined but being loved. Together with my older sister. With my older brother we always fight, because he always tease us. At school and in the neighborhood I think it was not good, being bullied, teased, make fun. topic of criticisms.

hello,se7enthbird.i have a good childhood.but i forget the most past time.i only remember when i am a child,my parents love me so much.with their concerns,make me becoming a strong person.