Anyone else not remember much

I remember some stuff.....my dad taking me for ice cream after the first day of kindergarten. My grandma who died when I was 7. Some of it is more stories I've been told (eating cookies in bed with grandpa); some of it is actual memories. But, yes, most of my memories are of later elementary age and beyond.

You don’t form permanent tangible memories before five, unless it Has a very strong meaning



I have one early memory of my grandmother pushing me in a shopping cart. I can see her as clear as if she were standing in front of me right now. I would have been between 1 and 2. It would have been one if the last times my grandmother walked.

My mother said that is never happen. I think she was jealous that my first memory wasn’t of her.

I definitely remember lots of things from age 4 and forward.

This is kind of funny to me. Just last night, my son's girlfriend told my son that he had a lot to learn about little kids before he had any of his own. I told her that we (as adults) are all pretty lucky that kids don't remember much before ages 6 and 7 because we make so many mistakes. To be fair, she was completely right. My son is clueless about kids but we all know that.

I remember stuff from when we lived on the farm. We moved from there when I was 3. I remember visiting the house we bought in town. I remember running away on my tricycle (just rode it around the block) at about the same age. I have many memories from about 3 on.

I have a few vivid memories from age 4. One involved watching groceries being delivered to a neighbor and deciding to check out what they got. A friend and I sat on their porch helping ourselves to bananas and cookies.

We moved just after I turned 5 and I have tons of memories from then forward. We stayed in a hotel where four of us kids slept in one bed, alternating with two heads at the foot of the bed, two at the top. Youngest sister was an infant in a drawer on the ground and my parents were in a Murphy bed. Dad told us it we heard a loud bang during the night to pull their bed back down. I'm pretty sure I didn't sleep, waiting for their bed to spring back into the wall.

My earliest memories are from about age 3.5-4. During that time period we moved from one state to another, my youngest brother was born & when he was 6 mos, we moved across town. I don’t remember the first move, but I have a lot of clear memories from the house where my brother was born.

I have many memories from ages 3-4. We moved house soon after I turned 5, so I can date my memories by the house, yard, and friends I had.

I remember things that happened in nursery school, e.g. I had a "boyfriend" named Kevin, and I fought with a substitute teacher to write my own name on an art project - the other kids didn't know how to write their names yet.

I remember always wanting to eat the peppermint leaves from the plant that grew in the back yard - they smelled SO GOOD! - but my mom would warn me off. Well, one day she wasn't watching, and I grabbed a couple of those delicious-smelling leaves... You know that video that's going around FB of the kid who insists on eating a spoonful of unsweetened cocoa powder, despite his mother's warning? His face was my face. I still remember what the chewed-up leaves looked like as they swirled down the toilet after I spit them out!

I even have a few memories of the apartment we lived in when I was 2 (before the above house). I remember eating breakfast at my little table, and my brother was an infant. I don't have memories of life before he came along, though. We are exactly 2 years apart.

We moved to the USA from Germany when I was 5 and I have so many memories from living in Germany that I still get homesick for it. Lots and lots of them including memories from a trip to Italy, the leaning tower of Pisa and the Trevi fountain, when I was 4.  

I remember a few things at 3, but mostly 4 and older. My mom took so many pictures and I always looked through albums, so I think that helped with all those memories, too.

I have memories of kindergarten and one memory when we were living in Long Beach when I was about 3. Ants all over the kitchen! Also when I was in kindergarten, I remember being in the bathtub and my mom coming in to tell me the two spinster sisters who rented us our apartment in their fourplex were going to take me to the movies because my parents would be taking my older sister to some Brownie function. I remember the movie like it was yesterday ~ Jimmy Stewart in Rear Window. Scared the crap out of me.

I remember a lot from before 5

I remember picking out my childhood dog at an early 2 year old age. And breaking my collar bone, being in the hospital and wearing a shoulder brace at 2-1/2. Those are definitely my earliest memories.

Some memories from about 4 years of age:NYC blackout; my only dog as a puppy because I put doll clothes on her and wheeled her in a toy carriage; grandfather's death.