Do you reflect on your childhood?

Hi joey, we can never compare our times and the times of today, there is a world of difference since things changed too fast in the past 2 decades.My own childhood was a very happy and simple one and my father was instrumental in making us think independently and start taking responsibilities right from childhood.My children too loved my father and liked spending time with him ! I lost my father a few years ago and we all miss him to this day . As regards children's upbringing, no doubt we have to take care but not to the extent where they become paranoid. One can only do so much, so it is better to make them aware of all the dangers around them in simple words and caution them , I feel thats the best we can do - happy mylotting

when i was a child i am so shy and up till now i am still shy and cannot interact with new set of people. i guess it is really true that what you are when you are younger will be the person you will be when you get older.

There are certainly times, when I do reflect on my childhood. I think that being away at university has helped me do that. Moving away from my family has given a different perspective. For one reason or another, I can't really help but reflect on my childhood and such.

I am always reflecting on my childhood. Someone will say or do something that will remind me of happy or sad times in my childhood. I think it is good to reflect on these moments of the past. Sometimes they will enrich your future.

I don't and try to keep my mind from ever thinking about my past childhood. I did not have a great childhood at all and let just say it was great to leave it behind. I did however turn it into a positive mode as I made sure my children had the best child hood.

hi there, I often reflect on my childhood. However I have a mixture of feelings. There are times I reminise on the freedom I had, whereby we were free to play out on the front garden till it got dark. On the other hand I think of the lack of love and emotion I was given by my mother, and I try to make sure that my children are not starved of love and affection. I didn't think too much about my childhood until I had my own children. Now I think all the time and try to understand the why's and how's of our upbringing.....

yes I wrote a whole book about my childhood

I try not to. I was a happy child because that is my nature, but my childhood was pretty warped. It was safer outside in the "olden days" but not necessarily inside. As they say, what doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

sometimes , I will reflect on my chilhood and compare it to my daughter , and find it is happy for my daughter , there are a lot of tolls and eating for my daugher , and for my childhood , it is so poor that I can only eat the good things in the end of the year , while , my daughter can eat it every day .

There are indeed moments in our lives wherein we reminisce and reflect on our childhood years either we had a good one or not. I think our childhood experiences greatly affect the kind of person we are today. It's during these years or this stage in our lives that some or most of our dreams and values are formed. Our past experiences and the people who became part of it help us build our character. It's great to reflect on our childhood at times and have meaningful realizations. I do think that our past influence or connects us to the future, however, it doesn't really define our future. We reflect on our past, our childhood, to help us live a better tomorrow. Good memories inspire us to greater things, well, even bad memories as well if we only let them. We may have had dreadful experiences but we can't let those stop us from having good ones. We may have done a lot of mistakes before but everyday is a chance to correct it. It's unhealthy to be stuck in our past and let it rule our future especially for those who have suffered from their childhood. Reflection is an opportunity to learn from our experiences that's why we should grab it and make the most out of it. =)