earliest memories

[myraandjim]

might get a discussion going - what is your earliest childhood memory? Mine is coming out of my cot and being put into a double bed with my older sister, she wouldn't let me stay in the bed once mum had left and I spent the night crying on the floor!! Must have been about 2 or three I think.

[mustard-tree]

Mine is being picked up from my grandparents by my dad on a motorbike and sidecar.

Motorbike broke down on the way and we ended up getting a lift home in a lorry, me, dad, doll and dolls pram

I had been staying at grandparents while my brother was being born, so I was 3 at the time

[ilove2patch]

The way my memory is lately it will be going to the shops yesterday! lol 

[saasher2012]

Not quite as posh as that ^^^^^ I do remember my father taking me for rides on the x bar of his bike to check the dry cows in the far pastures! he never took my elder brother cos he wasn't interested! I used to love having him all to myself for an hour or so, I think I would be about 3 or 4 years old.

[chickengrandma-2008]

I remember getting out of bed after my afternoon nap, bringing a mug with me  and some sort of garment, a coat I think.  We only had 'canvas' (cheap equivalent to lino) on the stairs, and having only socks on my feet I slipped and fell down the stairs.  There was a door at the bottom and that flew open with a crash as I hit it and I remember the look of surprise on my mum's face as I landed  at the bottom!  I was about three. The mug was broken!

[rose2008-2008]

I know its strange but my mum used to park me in my pram in the garden and im sure i can remember actually being in something and looking at the sky. I was a baby but surely you can remember that far back!. I remember also going to bed when i was young when it was still light and we used to have Housemartins under the eaves of the roof just outside my window. If you looked out you could see them peeping out and the babies chirping. Then they would swoop down and back up and i always remember their calls and noises when i was going to sleep!!

[carolyorkie2010]

Mine is being parked outside the house too, in one of those big, black prams (were they "Silver Cross?") and the milkman tickling my tummy. Blimey, he wouldn't be able to do that these days, he'd get arrested.

[bitsnknots]

My earliest memory is of the birthday party for I think it was my fourth birthday.  That's a year or two back.

[stan3502]

Bit weird but my ealiest memory is being taken out to visit relatives aand my brother being shouted at for peeing on the carpet , I'd of been about 3

[cookiecookuk]

i have a vague memory of going to take my dads lunch box to him and my sister was a baby in her pram so i was about 3 years old but the clearest one is getting a blue wooden wheel barrow with a  red wheel for christmas just after my 4th birthday.years later my brother in law tells me he cycled to our house with it tied to his back  on christmas eve in the snow and he lived about 15 miles from ours.

[ed_blackadder_1]

Making sand pies with my uncle on the beach,  also helping my grandad with his milk round, he had a horse and cart, and no it wasn't in Victorian times, it was back in the early 60s, they only delivered in a couple of mile radious so didn't think they should use a van, I remember the horse as being huge.  I was also allowed to watch the cows being milked.

[ginap.123]

Being pushed home from my nans sitting at the end of the big pram. I must have been about 3. It was beginning to get dark & I was petrified of the moon as, everytime I looked up, it was there. I was convinced it was following me.

[mouse4702]

I can remember being in the little seat on the handlebars of Father's bike and him cycling me round with him. Blimey if I tried that now I'd lose the bike.....

[vamo48]

I actually remember teething! I was given teething powders which came in little folded bits of paper, and the memory I have is of my dad carrying me round the room with my head on his shoulder, and turning round to show me my face in the mirror. Think it stopped me crying for a moment! I also remember being wheeled down the road in my pram playing with two small dolls, when I lost one over the side. Mum didn't notice and couldn't understand what I was telling her - all she could hear was her baby crying!

[chickengrandma-2008]

I remember those teething powders.  Weren't they called Steedman's, in a white fold of paper with blue writing on?

[wskneil]

Being at the coast in a car and the waves were breaking over the road. Everytime the water hit the screen , the wipers wuld go crazy until the screen dried out a bit. Tols my Dad this a few years back and he said it was when I was no older than 3 because it was when we had a Standard 10 with the wipers driven by a vacuum motor,

[rainydaywoman11]

Like Gina, I remember being in the seat on the end of the big pram, we had just come in, with my sister screaming, while my mother was running around with the spade from the fire trying to kill a mouse.  I would have been about 3.

[cat-knitter]

Crying because a cat had scratched me, It wasn't ours, we never had a cat when I was a child ...... it was in our garden & I was playing with my sister ........ I must have been almost 3 because thats my only memory of playing in that garden & thats about the age I moved into  the house I've lived in ever since ( we don't have a garden here)

[chickengrandma-2008]

It seems the majority of people's memories start at 3.  I wonder if there is a world wide average? 

[merc1_clocks]

 I think mine would be at about age 3 as well