What is your earliest memory?
By Ms.Chelle
@Chellezhere (6375)
United States
June 15, 2025 2:59pm CST
If you're not specific, at my age, I am apt to tell you that my earliest memory seems to be whatever happened a minute ago. But, if you must know my actual ealiest memory, I'd have to say it involved my Dad. He took me to a hole a few feet from the house and pulled out a toad. I recall this happening more than once sometime between 1970 and 1972. Before her death in 2021, Mom said she thinks he was trying to teach me not to mess with it. But, it makes me wonder if that interaction is why, as a young child, I wanted to be a vererinarian.
What's the earliest memory you can recall?
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@Ronrybs (20936)
• London, England
19 Jun
@Chellezhere Minnesota and that was a long time ago!
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@Chellezhere (6375)
• United States
19 Jun
@Ronrybs I've never been that far west.
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@Chellezhere (6375)
• United States
16 Jun
Using them kind of like a balance beam?
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@JudyEv (368697)
• Rockingham, Australia
16 Jun
@Chellezhere Not really. Just climbing over them - probably just because they were there. 
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@Chellezhere (6375)
• United States
18 Jun
@JudyEv That can be fun and dangerous for a child.
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@celticeagle (184117)
• Boise, Idaho
15 Jun
My earliest memory was helping my grammar rake leaves when I was around five. I made a house out of them and when my mom brought me some Decco candies when she came home from work I used them for my food and hid them in the leaves.
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@celticeagle (184117)
• Boise, Idaho
17 Jun
@Chellezhere ......they were a roll of candy disc's. They would last a long time.
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@Chellezhere (6375)
• United States
18 Jun
@celticeagle I am old enough to remember and have eaten Necco Wafers. Is that what you meant?
https://spanglercandy.com/products/necco-original-wafers-mix-24-count-rolls?srsltid=AfmBOop1GNgGdz_TXrC06WUrh7j_NEoQIEjSf_QE6uHRNMbLdkl8HGAQ
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@Chellezhere (6375)
• United States
16 Jun
I have a few other early memories with Dad (my parents divorced when I was four), but none that early on with Mom.
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@RasmaSandra (92635)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
15 Jun
I remember quite a few things from early childhood and have written some down.
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@LindaOHio (210110)
• United States
16 Jun
Standing in my crib, singing the Tetley Tea commercial song. Why? I don't know.
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@Chellezhere (6375)
• United States
16 Jun
You like those tiny little tea leaves.
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