Your Childhood

[LadyOfMystery]

So I'd like to get to know more things about y'all and I think this is a good way to see where people started and how they grew up and whatnot. So let's talk about your childhood. What was it like? What are some good memories? Did you have a good relationship with your parents? What about your siblings if you had any?

 

[Andrew12]

well at 9:30 am on october 1st, 1990......

I grew up in the average middle class family, I spent a lot of time in church, 2 times on sunday, once on wednesday, I went to revivals etc. I also attended public school, I had a great relationship with my family, I loved to spend time with my grandparents, and I graduated HS, and now am goung to university studying forensic behavior.

 

[LadyOfMystery]

I was born at 11:30pm on August 10th, 1987. I barely made it in the day! I grew up in a Christian home. My childhood was good, my mom took me everywhere to meet everyone and spent a lot of time with me. My dad worked(s lol) a lot. But I was a really happy baby, and kid so Im told.

 

[explodingboy]

I remember nothing before the day I woke up and realized I was 9, and started on my mid life crisis.

I have a notoriously bad memory.

 

[FaithPrevails]

I was born on a Tuesday.

I have one sister... aka the "golden child".

My relationship with my parents is better as an adult than it was as a child.

 

[Nilla]

Born and raised in a Christian family, practically grew up in church.

I have one older sister and two younger brothers.

I had a very good relaitonship with my parents. At least when it came to practial stuff.. when it comes to the emotional (like love, guys..etc) I'm a very closed up person. I talk to my sister about those things.. not my parents.
Even today I don't know how to explain to my parents how much my boyfriend means to me so that they will stop worry and see what I see in him.

That's me.. well some of it..lol

Over all my childhood was a very good one.

 

[CelticGrace]

I was born on Sunday, January 2, 1983. I'm the youngest of 6 but was raised as an only child (my youngest sister is 18 years older than me).
I was daddy's little princess from the day I was born until the day he died when I was 21.
On the flipside, my mom and I have butted heads constantly from the moment I learned to talk.

I had a fabulous childhood... except for 6th grade. I cried quite literally every single day that year. I went to public school kindergarten thru 5th and private school 6th thru 12th (one school for 6th and 7th, one for 8th thru 12th).
Most of my time was spent in church or school music activities during fall thru spring and music camps during the summer. And I loved all of it.

 

[Stravinsk]

So I'd like to get to know more things about y'all and I think this is a good way to see where people started and how they grew up and whatnot. So let's talk about your childhood. What was it like? What are some good memories? Did you have a good relationship with your parents? What about your siblings if you had any?

Childhood up to about 15:

A) What was it like?

I grew up in a relatively middle class family in a nice neighborhood. Excelled in English and Maths in school, in the top classes for my grade. Competed in sports. Attended church with family. The street I lived on had quite a few families around my age - and it was friendly for the most part. Every year we had block parties for 4th of July and everyone knew one another. I developed some good friendships that I still remember fondly to this day - even though those people are not part of my life anymore.

B) What are some good memories?

Competing in swimming. Basketball one to one with my friend Shaun, where we'd play and discuss life things. Midnight oil Infocom games with same. Skiing and river water rafting with family. A trip to Hungary and Holland. Slumber parties and war games and awkward crushes on girls.

C)Did you have a good relationship with your parents?

For the most part, yes. The biggest spats were when me and my brother got into fights. Then Dad the Disciplinarian came out. But otherwise, up until I was 15 or so - my folks were pleased with our life and how me and my brother were comming along. Proud parents.

D) I have a brother who is 2 years younger than me. I think, up until early teenage years we had a typical brother/brother relationship - we got along sometimes, and we got in fights sometimes. It was the only time in my life, up till recently, that I could say we had something of a friendship.


At about 15 years of age and beyond for 7 years - the Great Cataclysm of My Choices and Their Reactions changed all of that forever.

 

[tapi]

I remember a lot of my childhood. The memories are very vivid and clear from both good and bad situations. My early childhood was mostly very positive and the memories are beautiful and I embrace the fact that I'm able to remember them, playing with my brother and my cousin in our home and yard and from summers at our family's summer house. Summer morning breakfasts outside in the garden.. My relationship with my parents is in it's best state now than it has ever been now that I'm adult. As a child I was always loved, but there were some deep seated issues in our family that left some emotional scars that are fortunately now mostly healed for everyone involved.

 

[JordanDaniel]

I was born March 11 1994, Great childhood....my moms world revolved around me and vice versa...my mom built my faith in God up in me when I was little. My dad was always workin...Then around the age of 10 my dad leaves a 25 year marriage...2 years later my mom died on me... my life has been hell ever since, Jesus comforts me though no doubt.

 

[Fatally.Yours]

I was born at 2 am on the 5th December, 1992. I was raised in a strict Catholic household even though my mam is an atheist because when she married my dad she had to agree to raise any children they had as Catholics. I was on the gifted and talented list at school until I almost failed last year and then I was removed from the list. I get on ok with my mam and little brother but I haven't spoken to my dad properly since I was 16 even though we live in the same house. It's better now that I'm 18 because they don't ask questions about what I'm doing anymore so it's been a lot easier to maintain the secret relationship I've been having for the last year.

 

[MrsSeptemberPenguin]

I grew up in a middle class household. My parents are very christian and raised us in a very strict home. We went to church once a week. One of my favorite childhood memories is when I still lived in North Carolina, and I was able to build a snowman,but could only build him about a foot tall. It makes me laugh now because I live in Minnesota (moved here when I was 7) and have enough snow to build a whole snowman army every year. Me and my parents don't have that great of a relationship. We more or less tolerate each other. It sucks, but my parents are some of the most judgmental people I know, and because I'm accepting of other people it seems to make me less of a christian in their eyes. We do fine if we avoid our personal christian theologies when together, but my parents are always trying to turn me to their views. It wasn't always this way, but even when I was younger, my parents weren't someone I could talk to about stuff that was going on because they were very judgmental about everything. I have one younger sister. We get along really well now. We didn't when we were younger at all. It's amazing how 2 people raised in the same house can end up with completely different personalities. So yup, that's about the just of my childhood