The Earliest Memory You Remember in Life.

[Johnny Makarov]

Was just talking with my HongKong coworkers here on a slow day at work and...

The earliest thing I could remember was when I was around 2 years old and it was my 1st day in Pre-School in Hong Kong.

It was in a building right across from my grandfather's building and the principle's office faced into our apartment. I remember seeing my grandparents and I was bawling my face off at school. lol

Oh the same day before school, my grandmother taught me my first english word. Apple..

Might be hard for you boomers on this site... haha

[afc wimbledon]

fairly similar, not sure of the age but I recall being wheeled into pre school, it was in a church with big blue doors that are still there today, mostly it's the doors that I remember!!

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by afc wimbledon

fairly similar, not sure of the age but I recall being wheeled into pre school, it was in a church with big blue doors that are still there today, mostly it's the doors that I remember!!

hahah school is traumatizing!

[afc wimbledon]

Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov

hahah school is traumatizing!

My earliest memory of elementary school was a kid being dragged by the back of his jacket on his arse screaming for mummy by the first year teacher, kid must have been around 5 years old, first day of school, no effing around in 60's english schools, I was 6 or 7

[Puppet Guy]

I remember taking a train trip from Calgary to Manitoba when I was four - the station being so busy, the train being so big and loud. Probably the last time I was excited to take a trip to Manitoba.

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by afc wimbledon

My earliest memory of elementary school was a kid being dragged by the back of his jacket on his arse screaming for mummy by the first year teacher, kid must have been around 5 years old, first day of school, no effing around in 60's english schools, I was 6 or 7

The strap in catholic schools! I gotten it once in grade 8. Is that still a thing?

[GordonBlue]

sucks that when thinking back and trying to remember from when I was a young kid, I have more (and stronger) memories of negative experiences than positive ones.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Waving "bye-bye" to my grandparents as they went on a plane to go to Norway. I was two. I also remember moving into a new house when I was two, just before my brother was born.

[topfiverecords]

Nanaimo, BC. Nice, clear, sunny, warm day. Just past noon. I was around two and my mom dropped my older brother (four) off at preschool for the afternoon and then we went and had ice cream bars.

[cral12]

realizing E = NG

[The Yen Man]

I don't remember anything prior to pre-school. First vivid memories was pre-school or kindergarten.

I grew up in small town Redcliff, and so me any my cousin's families were the only Chinese people in town, and prior to school, we were looked after by our grandparents who didn't speak a lick of English. So we had no exposure to English until we started school. Think the first day, the teacher was asking me close the door as I was the last kid in, and I had no idea what she was saying to me until another kid got up and closed it for me. Not sure why that memory stuck with me, but it does to this day.

[Drak]

Being pushed down a street in Calgary in a stroller, age 2.

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by cral12

realizing E = NG

lol. we used to goto St Albert 4 times a year because my aunt lived there. I fell into that pond so many times as a kid. NG!

[Derek Sutton]

It can be hard to distinguish between actual memories and stories you know/ have been told from over the years. I know I have a couple of memories as a 2 years old. We moved into a new house in the fall before I turned 3, and these memories are from the “old house”. One is that there was a train set stored under the bunk beds and during “nap time” I could reach underneath the bed to fish out some rail cars to play with. This has to be my true oldest memory.

[flamesfever]

Born in Toronto, I finally figured out why I used to get the feeling of being lonely whenever I heard Foster Hewett's voice on the radio. Foster was the hockey announcer for the Maple Leafs, and whenever my parents left me alone as a baby, they hired "Old Tom" who smoked a pipe and loved to listen to the Leafs on the radio.

Another memory as a baby was being wrapped up in a comforter and taken out on the porch of our house when all the lights in Toronto were turned off, and the sound of air rade sirens filled the air. That was during the start of WW II.

[Zulu29]

Expo86 for me, I was 4 and remember my new hat blowing away in the wind near science world and my grand dad chasing after it!

[The Yen Man]

Originally Posted by cral12

realizing E = NG

Another good memory (well I guess not so good due to the Oilers winning) I had was also elementary. It was the year Boston played the Oilers in the finals. During recess, there would be these rallies where 95% of the school cheered on the Oilers, and I along with my cousins and a handful of others were cheering on Boston because we were Flames fans. I wasn't really a big Flames fan, but my older cousin was a huge Flames fan that eventually converted me.

[fotze2]

Originally Posted by afc wimbledon

My earliest memory of elementary school was a kid being dragged by the back of his jacket on his arse screaming for mummy by the first year teacher, kid must have been around 5 years old, first day of school, no effing around in 60's english schools, I was 6 or 7

Did they allow you to have your pudding if you didn't eat your meat?

[Cheese]

I remember we ate spaghetti and meatballs yesterday for dinner!

[Sr. Mints]

A few scattered and fragmented memories from a house we lived at when I was 2-5. Let's split the difference and say 3 years old. Perhaps tellingly, they all seem to revolve around toys, He-Man and Transformers (standing them all up on the kitchen floor with my older brother, that sort of thing.)