https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 04 Nov 2026 20:25:34 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-first-childhood-memory#post-356207 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:39:10 +0000 HLK208 356207@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was three. My mom had poured soup into bowls and set them on a tray. I remember saying, "I'm a big girl. I can get the soup by myself." And I reached for the tray, all of the boiling hot soup poured onto my chest and stomach. I went into shock after that so I don't remember anything after that moment! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-first-childhood-memory#post-356152 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:23:31 +0000 ladyfingers 356152@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Randomly, me in my footie pajamas in the kitchen while my dad warmed up chocolate milk for me. I must have been 3 or so because I have more frequent and random memories from preschool (4). But I still don't really know if it was a real memory or not, you can totally manufacture those! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-first-childhood-memory#post-356146 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:21:47 +0000 alayaya 356146@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have a vague memory of sitting in the living room at some family friend's house playing with little care bear dolls. This would have been before I was 5.</p> <p>I remember visiting my dad in the Hospital and asking him to draw me an elephant. I think I was 4 then too. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-first-childhood-memory#post-355935 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:38:10 +0000 Meridian 355935@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was 3 and we were having a family party. I was carrying a glass bottle (dunno why) and somehow it shattered in my hands and there was blood. I still have a long scar from that incident! And then I remember visits to the hospital to get it checked out... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-first-childhood-memory#post-355749 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:49:59 +0000 lovehoneybee 355749@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Riding in my mom's lap in the front seat while she tried to hold my pinky toe on with brown paper towels, then being held down on an exam table at the hospital by my parents and a nurse because I kept trying to kick the Dr trying to sew my toe back on. I was 18 months old and had fallen into a broken box fan? Little unclear about how, and my parents didn't see it happen, just the aftermath.</p> <p>The next memory (which probably would have been the first) was getting a Big Sister doll for my 3rd birthday. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-first-childhood-memory#post-355720 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:38:11 +0000 autumnlove 355720@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I remember watching my shoe fall off on a bus and thinking it was the funniest thing. I was two at the time. I didn't tell my mom until we got off the bus and it was too late for us to save my shoe. Haha! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-first-childhood-memory#post-355664 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:18:25 +0000 mrbee 355664@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@skibobrown: I sure hope that our kids remember stuff from when they were two! That would be awesome... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-first-childhood-memory#post-57329 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:17:30 +0000 skibobrown 57329@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm so glad there are others who have memories from when they were 2! People always look at me like I'm crazy when I talk about memories from when I was that young, but clearly I'm not the only one. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-first-childhood-memory#post-57308 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:26:35 +0000 Maysprout 57308@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had found at we were going to move and I didn't want to so I I remember the old house and neighborhood, and the other one from 2 is when my grandpa died and being at my grandparents house and not knowing why everyone was crying and just sitting on the steps waiting for my grandpa to come back since everyone else was sad. My sister was born shortly after that and I have no memories from that. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-first-childhood-memory#post-56339 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:37:35 +0000 Pepper 56339@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was 2, almost 3... and we were driving through the city at night and I was crying about something. I can remember being in the car and looking out at the city lights through my tears! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-first-childhood-memory#post-56337 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:34:22 +0000 808love 56337@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I remember cry it out in my crib when I was around 2. I just remember the crib and crying and crying. My mom finally held me awhile and then she was picking me up and putting me back down. I remember details about that house so my mom confirmed it. Around the sam time, I remember them leaving me in a daycare at night for a special event where there were many cribs for kids in a gymnasium and crying and they didn't pick us up til really late. I think we may have been the last ones there. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-first-childhood-memory#post-56332 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:59:20 +0000 tejbee 56332@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The earliest memory I can recall was when I was two or a little younger. My parents were having a house built and I remember being carried through the wooden skeleton and the smell of the wood of the house as it was under construction. I don't know why that memory made such an impression on my young mind. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-first-childhood-memory#post-56312 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:04:39 +0000 junebugmama 56312@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My first memory was a trauma, so that's probably why it's so vivid. I feel down the stairs when I was 2 on Christmas Eve. I don't remember falling down the stairs, but I do remember my mother taking me to the hospital. I also remember the doctor was tall and thin with dark hair and that he checked my reflex's. I also remember my mother letting me sit in the front seat. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-first-childhood-memory#post-56272 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:20:25 +0000 skibobrown 56272@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have really early memories. My first memory is exactly 8 days before I turned 2. My dad took me to visit my new baby sister in the hospital. The nurse at the hospital offered me apple juice while we waited for my sister to be brought in from the nursery. The apple juice came with a straw, and it was the first time I had ever drank juice from a straw. Honestly, I was more interested in the straw than I was with my new little sister. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-first-childhood-memory#post-56227 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:06:50 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 56227@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was two and it was my mother's wedding day. I remember playing with my flower petals and sprinkling them down the aisle - after the wedding was over. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-first-childhood-memory#post-56222 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:46:11 +0000 lilteacherbee 56222@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was 3 and it was the week after my sister was born. I picked her up out of her bassinet that was in the living room (my mom had stepped out of the room) and took her into my playhouse that was about 5 feet from her bassinet. She screamed for so long that my parents took her to the hospital. She was fine (just scared I guess), but I remember wanting to play with her so my 3 year old self did just that. I've never lived that one down... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-first-childhood-memory#post-56221 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:35:47 +0000 Rubies 56221@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was three and my family lived in Vancouver that year - I remember a LOT - exploring, walking around, picking flowers (from neighbours' yards without their permission but I didn't know I had to ask!), swinging in the playground, sitting on the sidewalk stomping on ants, etc. Back then little kids were seen all over the place without any parental supervision! I remember always just coming and going whenever I wanted and it was all good. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-first-childhood-memory#post-56218 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:20:44 +0000 heffalump 56218@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My dad bouncing me in the bouncer when they had a group of friends over. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/whats-your-first-childhood-memory#post-56217 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:19:00 +0000 mrbee 56217@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was four and checked the snail mail with my mom and brother. My mom opened a letter and told us it was from the school and that we were going to school the next year! I was so excited and scared, all at the same time!</p> <p>I think I remember it so clearly because of all those emotions! I read somewhere that testosterone can cause enhanced memory... if so, that would definitely explain why I remember this so so clearly! Excitement and fear were coursing through my little four year old mind and body...</p> <p>What's your first childhood memory? How old were you, and why do you think you remember this particular memory? </p>