Random memories from childhood. Can you remember things from your childhood days?

@TheHorse (218921)
Walnut Creek, California
December 16, 2022 11:11am CST
I was just typing the word "than" (it may have been in a response to @LadyDuck) when I "flashed" on my thought processes when I learned the distinction between "then" and "than." In my memory, I can "feel" California in the background, so it has to have been before we moved to Chicago when I was eight. Due to "spreading activation," I now also remember that I had a tiny F-4 Phantom that I flew around the hallways in second grade. I put it away during class time, so the teacher never took it away from me. Hah! Now I remember that I finished "second" in a second grade "spelling bee." The winner was my "girlfriend," Laura Klein, so I didn't mind losing. The word that got me? "Hoe." Can you remember random stuff from relatively early childhood days? For some reason, I've always been able to.
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@arunima25 (87806)
• Bangalore, India
16 Dec 22
Oh! There are a lot of them and they keep coming. Some of them are very vivid memories.
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@TheHorse (218921)
• Walnut Creek, California
16 Dec 22
Isn't it interesting how when you remember one thing, you start to remembers others from the same time period?
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@TheHorse (218921)
• Walnut Creek, California
17 Dec 22
@arunima25 It can feel like a "different life." But I remember that who I am is a summary of who I have been.
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@arunima25 (87806)
• Bangalore, India
17 Dec 22
@TheHorse Yes, it happens like a relay of memories. Now, so much have changed that most of them seem so distant as if it was from some previous birth
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@just4him (317089)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
16 Dec 22
Nice picture. Yes, I often remember random things from my childhood.
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@Fleura (30402)
• United Kingdom
16 Dec 22
@TheHorse Sorry you lost you Mom so early. What happened? Do you remember her? As a parent that's something you always fear - after something happening to them of course - that you will die and they won't remember you. I find myself thinking that at least if I die now, hopefully they will have lots of memories.
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@TheHorse (218921)
• Walnut Creek, California
16 Dec 22
@Fleura Cancer. I remember her, but not that well. My dad was the more "active" parent.
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@TheHorse (218921)
• Walnut Creek, California
16 Dec 22
I am thinking of something that happened when I was three right now. It's odd.
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@BarBaraPrz (47334)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
16 Dec 22
Which one is you in that photo?
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@TheHorse (218921)
• Walnut Creek, California
16 Dec 22
That's Horse Jr. and another neighbor kid 10 years ago. So you can see me (who took the photo) in their eyes.
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@celticeagle (167019)
• Boise, Idaho
16 Dec 22
I recall raking leave with my grandpa when I was 4 or 5.
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@celticeagle (167019)
• Boise, Idaho
16 Dec 22
@TheHorse ........It is. He's been gone a long time.
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@TheHorse (218921)
• Walnut Creek, California
16 Dec 22
That sounds like a fond memory.
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@TheHorse (218921)
• Walnut Creek, California
16 Dec 22
@celticeagle So have my Grandparents. But my memories of them are strong.
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@allknowing (136525)
• India
16 Dec 22
So that's you. Do you still look as handsome? Loads of memories. There will be a zoom meet tomorrow to wish one of my sisters whose b'day it is and that took me to how we spent time as kids Wrote a poem about her
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@allknowing (136525)
• India
17 Dec 22
@TheHorse I did not know you were married
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@TheHorse (218921)
• Walnut Creek, California
17 Dec 22
Nah, that's Horse Jr. and another neighbor kid.
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@TheHorse (218921)
• Walnut Creek, California
17 Dec 22
@allknowing Where did I say I was married?
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@Sojourn (13837)
• India
16 Dec 22
Hoe?! isn't that an insult in the English language?
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@Fleura (30402)
• United Kingdom
16 Dec 22
It's a tool for weeding; at least that's the original meaning.
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@Fleura (30402)
• United Kingdom
16 Dec 22
@TheHorse Does Santa Claus still say 'Ho ho ho'?
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@TheHorse (218921)
• Walnut Creek, California
16 Dec 22
I think that would be "Ho." But the funny thing is, I'm not sure!
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@vandana7 (100297)
• India
18 Dec 22
I remember bullying my little sister. I remember her entering the front room to see me for the first time...she was so excited...and cute..
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@vandana7 (100297)
• India
19 Dec 22
@TheHorse I have been a bully since childhood. LOL. Don't you realize my nature by now? LOL. I was perhaps 7 and she nearly 2. I am born in 1959, she 1964. Damn cute sister...just that I was always the evil one. Now I miss her ..LOL
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@TheHorse (218921)
• Walnut Creek, California
20 Dec 22
@vandana7 Miss her? What happened to her?
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@TheHorse (218921)
• Walnut Creek, California
19 Dec 22
How old were each of you?
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@much2say (55655)
• Los Angeles, California
16 Dec 22
I got 3rd in a spelling bee in 6th grade . . . but everyone was expecting for me to win . I messed up on the word "aluminum" (I had to look that up now to make sure it was spelled right ).
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@much2say (55655)
• Los Angeles, California
19 Dec 22
@TheHorse I thought I had all the words down pact - guess not. I messed up "aluminum" thinking there was a silent m or n somewhere . . . not sure why.
@TheHorse (218921)
• Walnut Creek, California
16 Dec 22
I almost looked up "hoe" to make sure I got it right. I struggled with "restaurant" until my Graduate School days. I think I can handle "aluminum."
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@rebelann (112875)
• El Paso, Texas
16 Dec 22
Is that a picture of you and Laura? Both were adorable. I have a few memories but with all the moving we did it became fairly traumatic so I don't remember as much as I'd like to. Army brats in the 1950s seemed to be uprooted from school during January and all too often many of us had to take a school year over once they settled into the new base their dads were assigned to.
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@TheHorse (218921)
• Walnut Creek, California
16 Dec 22
I was a faculty brat. Our moves occurred during the Summers.
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@TheHorse (218921)
• Walnut Creek, California
16 Dec 22
The photo is of Horse Jr. and anther neighbor kid about 10 years ago.
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@LeaPea2417 (37355)
• Toccoa, Georgia
17 Dec 22
Yes I remember random things from my childhood. One thing I remember clearly is falling off the jungle gym in kindergarten and noticing how I got blisters on the palm of my hands.
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@TheHorse (218921)
• Walnut Creek, California
17 Dec 22
Heh. I get those now. But I don't remember getting them in childhood days.
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@marlina (154131)
• Canada
16 Dec 22
I remember finding a $5.00 bill and I went with my sister and open my first ever bank account.
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@marlina (154131)
• Canada
20 Dec 22
@TheHorse , I have always been that kind of person.
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@TheHorse (218921)
• Walnut Creek, California
20 Dec 22
@marlina I suppose I am too.
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@TheHorse (218921)
• Walnut Creek, California
16 Dec 22
Are you serious? That's pretty..."responsible."
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@wolfgirl569 (106362)
• Marion, Ohio
17 Dec 22
I sometimes remember things.
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@wolfgirl569 (106362)
• Marion, Ohio
17 Dec 22
@TheHorse Sometimes.
@TheHorse (218921)
• Walnut Creek, California
17 Dec 22
Once you remember one thing, do others come t mind? That happens to me.
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@Fleura (30402)
• United Kingdom
16 Dec 22
Yes! I can remember lots of things and the memories are earlier than I thought. I can remember going to my parents' bedroom in the mornings; I thought I must have been about 4 but I now know I was probably only two because I remember wearing the yellow pyjamas with blue teddy bears on them and my Mum kept all those things and my girls wore them and that's when I realised how small I must have been. Likewise I can remember walking (toddling I suppose) round and round my Dad's leg (round one leg so between his legs) and again, having seen how tall my girls were at what ages I now realise I was younger than I thought I must have been. I can remember going to Playgroup, and that was before I started school which was when I was four and a half. I also remember two friends I had from there, Miranda and Fey - they lived not far from us and I remember visiting their home but then they moved away. I remember going to visit my great-aunt and uncle, they lived a mile from us and on gloomy days I can remember getting cosy in the pushchair with the rain-cover over it while my Mum pushed me there through the lanes. I must have been quite small to be able to do that without my legs dangling out! My Mum used to take me to chapel every Sunday and to keep me quiet during the sermon she used to take some old plastic hair curlers which were different pastel colours and I remember playing with those, putting them on her fingers and pulling them off again. (When I was older I used to take my farm animals to play with on the little shelf where the hymn books go). I could go on, lots of memories. My Dad though reckoned he could remember being born, so I'm not as good as him! But in contrast my partner can hardly remember anything of his childhood!
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@marlina (154131)
• Canada
16 Dec 22
@TheHorse .I remember a lot.
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@TheHorse (218921)
• Walnut Creek, California
16 Dec 22
My brother also says he remembers very little.
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@oahuwriter (26777)
• United States
17 Dec 22
Yes. My first day of school, I cried, didn't want my grandad to leave. Walked home daily, no bus back then. And moo memories too.
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@TheHorse (218921)
• Walnut Creek, California
17 Dec 22
Did you get used to school?
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@oahuwriter (26777)
• United States
18 Dec 22
@TheHorse Eventually, yes.
@RasmaSandra (79892)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
16 Dec 22
Definitely, I have lots of various memories that pop up now and then and particularly when I am looking at old photos. It is just; the everyday stuff from childhood that I sometimes cannot remember. For instance, I can remember things from Christmas but cannot recall how my parents and I sat down to eat Christmas dinner and what mom served.
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@TheHorse (218921)
• Walnut Creek, California
17 Dec 22
I remember certain scenes. But certainly not everything.
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@andriaperry (116936)
• Anniston, Alabama
17 Dec 22
Lol. I used to win spelling bees. You brought that memory back.
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@TheHorse (218921)
• Walnut Creek, California
21 Dec 22
Is it my fate to "finish second" in life? Heh.
@Shiva49 (26684)
• Singapore
17 Dec 22
A few of them keep replaying. Ride in the horse-drawn carriage when I was about four. Going to school barefoot on rainy days.
@aninditasen (16397)
• Raurkela, India
17 Dec 22
Yes, I do remember some of my childhood pranks.
@Treborika (17697)
• Mombasa, Kenya
17 Dec 22
I really can't remember any random stuff in my childhood days. Probably it could be there but I may have forgotten it
@tanmoybh (35)
17 Dec 22
Hey I had problem too earlier with than and then. I used to mixed it up until 4 grade (Class 4 here)