INTRODUCTION
My childhood was full of shadows
Bright, blue and brilliant shadows
On the winds of the silent valley
Many memories that sang so gaily
My childhood has gone but not forgotten
I remember all that is good but not rotten
Life was calm, cool and comfortable
Nothing to worry, care with no timetable
Family life full of love and comfort
Grandparents and parents gave all support
Love learn look and listen to grow
Worries and anxieties nothing to show
Farm of fruit vegies and healthy tree
Cows, goats, horses and chicks running free
Time to enjoy all morning and evening
Life full of joy with no grieving
That was my childhood full of fun
Eating drinking no work to be done
Born on the farm full of crops
Lot of water good land no rocks
Lot to learn from every one
No more childhood cos it has gone
I want to fly back but cannot
My heart longs to find that report
So let me write and reveal
The entire good thing that is real.
Our earliest childhood memories start from the age of two - far earlier than previously thought. Scientists have found the area of the brain responsible for memories can be triggered before toddlers even learn to speak.
We experience thousands of events across childhood, and yet as adults we recall only a handful. Some might be “firsts” (our first ice cream, our first day at school), or significant life events (the birth of a sibling, moving house). Others are surprisingly trivial.
So, to narrate what my early childhood memories are I have decided to do the show and tell process. They reflected my early skill for remembering things, many of my interests and my individual experiences.
I have begun to see my childhood memories as if a video camera captured the images and recorded the events of my life accurately and without bias.
Like any other my childhood memories were intricately shaped by my family and the culture I grew up in.
In the narration it can be seen that the shadows of my childhood have impacted upon and reflected upon my adolescence, youth and middle-age and is now assisting me respond to my old age.