Childhood memories
Childhood, according to the definition, it is a time when somebody is a child. A child, according to the definition, it’s a boy or girl – human who is not yet fully grown. Different people grown in different time, it’s different for boys and girls. So as we can see, it very difficult and maybe not possible to say exactly how long does the childhood last. Surely, we can say that childhood begins when human is born and it last until he is mature. Average childhood last from ten to 15 years.
Childhood is one of the most important periods of our life. From the date of birthday child have to learn just everything, to breathe, to drink, eat, walk, speak etc.
Being child have, as everything, has some advantages and disadvantages.
I think most of people would agree that childhood is one of the most beautiful periods in human’s life. Children always have a smile on their faces and they can be happy with everything. Sometimes they are sad but it doesn’t last too long. They don’t need to worry about anything because it belongs to their parents, who decide about everything. They don’t have many duties, they only have to clean their teeth twice a day and do their prayers. They don’t have to decide about their future. Even if they are rude nobody punishes them too hard because they often don’t know the difference between good and evil. For those reasons the time of childhood is probably the best time in our life. Someone, who doesn’t remember his childhood, looses a lot.
Personally I remember my own childhood very cordially. When I was a child I used to play with plastic soldiers with my elder brother. Mum and granny bought us a few new soldiers two or three times a week. There were always a lot of quarrels about them. I used to sleep with a teddy dog, which I called “Bobik”. I also used to play with toy blocks. Mother bought us once a set of toy blocks to build castles but my brother and me build with them spaceships and other things they weren’t mean for. Although this we were doing well. When I was a child I had to go to the kindergarten because my mother and granny, who were bringing us up, were working. For the first few days in the kindergarten I was very sad and I often cried but later I got used to it and even liked to go there because I could meet there many collages I could play with and that’s why I was never bored there. I used to watch TV programs for children (for instance “Pankracy”, “Tik tak”, “Ciuchcia”, “Teleranek”, “5-10-15” and so on). When I was about seven or eight years old I used to be very disobedient at school but later I learnt that at school you have to be obedient. I was really happy in those days and sometimes I wish I could be child again.
We can say that childhood is the most important period of one’s life. Up to the age of five our character is molded so we can say that all our later life is depended on this period. However, for different people word childhood has different meaning. For some people it is period before going to school, for other it is last longer. We can say that we are as long child as long we feel like a child.
For my childhood ended when I finished when I was in primary school and I can say that I remember the time of my education there quite well. However, I must say that I don’t remember well my early childhood. I can say that I haven’t any clear memories before the age of eight. From that time I have some memories but I can’t recall whole events connected with them. I remember that I went very often to my grandparents to countryside and I played with my cousins which are older then my and they weren’t happy from that, but I didn’t know that then. I also remember that nobody wonted to teach my haw to drive tractor and I thought that it is unfair because all my cousins have known how to do that.
From latest period of my childhood that is the time of my primary school I remember more things. I can say that my childhood ended about sixth grad of it. I can say that then I started to make more my own decision and impact of my parent has decreased. As far as my primary school is concerned I can say that I don’t have any exceptional memories. I remember that then it has begun my fascination connected with computers and many hours I spent in front of it, but it past with time. I remember also that I liked all kinds of sports than but it also past with time. I can generally say that me nowadays is someone completely different that my when I was a child.
To sum up, I can say that with my childhood there are connected some good memories and some bad once but I try to remember only those good.
Helaa