Early childhood memory reading quiz

You are going to read part on a blog where people have sent in accounts of their earliest childhood memories. Which of the following options does the person mention?

A Michael Richardson

'My earliest memory is of being held on some-one's lap on a porch swing in front of my great grandmother's farm house. I was describing the memory once to my mother and I gave her a walkthrough of the house, the layout of the rooms and the memory of two bench swings facing each other on each side of the front door on the porch. My mum got kind of quiet and then called my grandmother to verify a date and told me that I was describing a house that was sold when I was 18 months old. I still have never seen a picture of the front of the house to verify for myself but take my grandmother's word for it.

• has a memory that involved not having something in their room?

• had their age at the time of the memory verified by someone?

• surprised a relative with their memory?

• recognised something years later?

• remembers a positive feeling?

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MARTIN GREEN

C

The earliest thing I can remember is sitting in my crib, in a house we moved out of when I was about nine months old, and leaning to try to see my mother in the kitchen, right across from my door. That is the only clear memory I have from that house, but I have many from the one we lived in for the following year. Once when I was in my twenties I walked into a pub-lic place with my mother and stopped and said, "We used to have this tile in our kitchen." She looked at it for a minute, then looked at me as if she was expecting it and said, "We moved out of that house before you were two." I guess you get to know the floor pretty well when you're only two feet tall!

• has an upsetting early memory?

• had the earliest first memory?

• recognised something years later?

• remembers a positive feeling?

• remembers one season more than others?

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MARY O'MAILEy

B

The first thing I recall must have happened

right after my family moved to our second

flat. I was somewhere between 18 months

and 2 years old and had just gotten my first

"grown-up bed" which I kept falling out of.

Since we didn't have one of those side-rails

so prevalent today, mom got creative and put

the vinyl high back chairs around my bed like

a fort. I woke up one morning to find myself

slowly falling from the bed - the chairs push-

ing out away from me in slow-motion. I

thought this was great fun to fall out of bed

so slowly! I remember crawling (because I

was sleepy and being silly not because I

couldn't walk) to find mom in her bright

sunny room, working at her desk on some

bills.

• has a memory that involved not having something in their room?

• had their age at the time of the memory verified by someone?

• remembers a parent working?

• remembers a positive feeling?

• remembers one season more than others?

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ANN CLARK

D

I know a lot of people have clear memories

of their early childhood. I don't. Instead they

are flashes of events over a period of time.

Some of the events were major and some

were minor. Despite my dislike for the sun

they are all sun-drenched - I don't have many

memories of winter in my early years, and

I'm not sure why that is. The first big memo-

ry I have does have a date attached:

Christmas Day when I was six. We weren't

able to make our annual trip to the coast that

year because of financial restraints, so we

were watching the news on the TV. What I

saw was horrible. A child standing by a

destroyed house, clutching a doll, with

tangled tinsel all around her. The night before

Cyclone Tracy had destroyed 70 percent of a

nearby town. I also remember the red cross

vans going up our street getting donations,

and the town hall where the donations were

being collected. It seemed like the goods

were piled to the roof.

• has an upsetting early memory?

• had the earliest first memory?

• does not have clear and detailed early memories?

• remembers one season more than others?

• remembers a positive feeling?

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