How far in age can you go back to.

[hollydolly]

I guess I was about 2 years old, sitting on my grampa's knee in our living room. He passed away soon thereafter.

Also, around the same age, being bathed in a little tub in the kitchen sink.

I remember that too..I would have been around 2 years old

 

[LadyEmeraude]

I seem to remember a mix of things from two years old on up.

I do though remember my first birthday and cake, what my mom
was saying to me, and also my sister, at least it has always seemed
clear in my memory.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

I'm not sure how old I was, but I was crawling on the floor. My dad had gone down to the cellar and left the door open. I started crawling down the cellar steps, and I remember seeing floor beams and a bare light bulb. I heard my mom scream, and that's all I remember.

 

[Aunt Bea]

I'm not sure how old I was, but I was crawling on the floor. My dad had gone down to the cellar and left the door open. I started crawling down the cellar steps, and I remember seeing floor beams and a bare light bulb. I heard my mom scream, and that's all I remember.

That explains a lot!

 

[HoneyNut]

I can only remember a few things from age 2-3, things that were extremely scary to me - I followed my grandmother into the bathroom and she took out her teeth. She might as well have taken off her head, it was so unexpected and terrifying. LOL

Another scary memory from that time was putting my face above a bucket in the garage and finding a monster-bird hopping up and down at my face (that is my memory of it, but from my mom's telling, it was the neighbor girl's pet hamster that had escaped and then managed to get stuck in a bucket in our garage - it was returned safely).

Then there is a memory of how scary it was riding on the handlebars of my mom's bicycle when she went to the store, though that is kind of a strange memory because it happened a lot but seems to have left one generalized memory.

Years 4 - 5 have more memories but still mostly scary, falling and scraping my knee, getting barked at, the embarrassment of wetting the bed once, etc.

My sister cut her face at the park and asked if I had a tissue to mop the blood, I did not, and my failure shook me up to the point that I don't think I've ever gone anywhere for the rest of my life without making sure I have a tissue! From hearing details when I was older I know it was a significant cut and my parents took her to get stitches, but my own memory still feels like if only I'd had a tissue my sister would have been okay.

 

[Della]

My earliest memory is from the age of 4, when I can remember sitting on a hard wooden chair on a very rainy day watching a black-and-white cartoon on TV about a tiger as I ate a baloney sandwich. I think that the memory stimulated all of my senses, which served to anchor it in recollection…

My husband was the 5th child of 12 and seemed to have spent most of his childhood in front of the TV like that. The spooky thing is he seems to remember all those old shows and cartoons. One day he mentioned an episode of Hazel and told me the whole thing word for word and if you picked a random Bugs Bunny cartoon right now he could speak along with all the characters.

You are all hilarious! Your stories show that you haven't really changed. Hearlady and her kind gift, @911 and the electrical plug, Fuzzybuddy taking the stairs head first. I can't quit chuckling.

 

[Marie5656]

Maybe 3 or 4. I remember my paternal grandma....who was my only living grandparent when I was born and I think I was 4 or 5 when she died. I also remember she gave me a dollar bill and my cousin took it from me. LOL. She lived across the street and used to sit by her bay window and watch me play outside.

 

[hollydolly]

Maybe 3 or 4. I remember my paternal grandma....who was my only living grandparent when I was born and I think I was 4 or 5 when she died. I also remember she gave me a dollar bill and my cousin took it from me. LOL. She lived across the street and used to sit by her bay window and watch me play outside.

..see what I mean ...lol.. trauma.. you remember that money getting taken from you..

 

[MaidMarian]

I can remember being put in my crib for a nap and not wanting to take one. I remember the crib and exactly what it looked like.