As time passes, many childhood memories start to fade. And that is completely normal since our brain needs to make room for new information and experiences. Hence, we often turn to photos, memory boxes, and other tangible things reminiscent of our childhood as a portal to the times we lived without a single care in the world. One can’t help but have that bittersweet feeling about memories from childhood—happy it happened, sad that it’s over.
What everyone should aspire to in life is to be rich in memories, and if memories of childhood are part of them, one is pretty much halfway there. The many quotes about childhood emphasize that childhood memories, so fragile and distant, are timeless treasures of the heart, carrying so many firsts and special moments of life. Perhaps this is why so many live with platonic hope of wishing to return to “the good old days.” And although time travel has not been invented (just yet), reliving one’s childhood is very much possible. It’s not just reliving sweet memories through photos but doing things you enjoyed doing as a child: building sand castles, collecting shells, swinging on the swing, blowing out candles on your birthday cake, or reading children’s books. There’s no such thing as being too old to do the things you enjoy or things that make you happy. So if a childhood memory of you making daisy chains and wearing them around your head has you smiling from the inside, go ahead and relive it as soon as the first daisies come to bloom.
Below, we’ve compiled heaps of childhood memories to help you reconnect with your inner child and recall the pure joy and innocence of the early days. To make the post even more inspiring, under several entries, we’ve added some quotes about childhood memories that hit right in the feels. And if any of them did, give them an upvote! Also, do you have a favorite childhood memory? What is it? Share it with fellow Pandas and us in the comments!
#1 Building Sandcastles
“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.”
Image source: Nik
#2 Watching Children’s TV
“What one loves in childhood stays in their heart forever.”
Image source: Victoria Akvarel
#3 Ice Cream Van
“Childhood is where dreams are born, and time is never planned.”
Image source: Gavin Allanwood
#4 Playing Outside Until It Was Dark
“Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.”
Image source: Annie Spratt
#5 Going To Your Grandparent’s House
“Childhood is the best of all the seasons of life, and the longer it lasts with happy memories, the stronger the emotional stability in adulthood.”
Image source: 47shadesofgray
#6 Collecting Toys, Cards, Collectibles
“I miss being the child whose eyes shone brightly at the thought of seeing the simplest of things.”
Image source: Mick Haupt
#7 School Field Trips
“Sometimes, it’s better to bunk a class and enjoy time with friends, because today, when I look back, marks never make me laugh, but memories do.”
Image source: Thomas Park
#8 Visiting Cousins
“A cousin is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.”
Image source: Charlein Gracia
#9 Going ‘Back To School’ Shopping At The End Of Summer Hols
“Children are magic because they look for it.”
Image source: reverent
#10 Being Read A Bedtime Story
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
Image source: Suzy Hazelwood
#11 Teeth Falling Out And Putting Them Under Your Pillow
“What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles, it was a miraculous world.”
Image source: bigbear
#12 Making Daisy Chains And Wearing Them Around Your Head
“There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again.”
Image source: gryffyn m
#13 Getting Up Really Early In The Morning To Go On Holiday
“The memories we make in our childhood are the ones that will carry with us for the rest of our lives.”
Image source: Alberto Casetta
#14 Sleepovers With Friends
“Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.”
Image source: Kampus Production
#15 Going Camping
“Sometimes my childhood memories sneak out of my eyes and roll down my cheeks.”
Image source: Vitali Adutskevich
#16 Playing Car Games On Long Journeys
“Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time, we grew side by side, our roots will always be tangled.”
Image source: Mike B
#17 Getting Pocket Money
“Children need models rather than critics.”
Image source: Annie Spratt
#18 Counting Down The Days Until The Summer Holidays
“Children are one-third of our population and all of our future.”
Image source: RODNAE Productions
#19 Skimming Stones
“Sometimes I wish I could go back to my childhood and capture all those happy memories.”
Image source: Jonathan Cooper
#20 Going Out With Your Friends For The First Time Without Your Parents
“Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in later life the images first presented to it.”
Image source: Jamie Taylor
#21 Watching Films Which Were Above Your Age Rating
“Childhood is a time of rapidly changing emotions, and the growth process is often painful.”
Image source: cottonbro studio
#22 Playing With Leaves
“Childhood has no necessary connection with age.”
Image source: Michael Morse
#23 Your Parents’ Favorite Music
“Nothing is as nostalgic as remembering your childhood memories.”
Image source: Tobias Tullius
#24 Family Holidays
“Childhood is a collection of life’s most precious moments.”
Image source: Weiqi Xiong
#25 Hide And Seek
“I miss being a child and doing practically senseless stuff and yet having the time of my life.”
Image source: Annie Spratt
#26 Pencil Cases
“A happy childhood is perhaps the most fortunate gift in life.”
Image source: Bru-nO
#27 Fishing For Tadpoles In A Pond
“Remember, childhood only lasts 10–12 years. There’s a lot that has to be squeezed in to make for a lifetime of happy memories.”
Image source: Chris F
#28 Reading Magazines
“Sometimes you have to grow up before you appreciate how you grew up.”
Image source: Steph Wilson
#29 “Scratch And Sniff” Stickers
“Cleaning the house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing.”
Image source: qbertking
#30 Singing In The Back Of The Car
“The best childhood memories are the ones stitched together with love.”
Image source: Magnus Östberg
#31 Christmas Dinner
“Memories of childhood were the dreams that stayed with you after you woke.”
Image source: Chad Madden
#32 Learning To Ride A Bike
“Every time you miss your childhood, ride on a bicycle!”
Image source: Nathan Dumlao
#33 Getting A Pet
“Childhood friendship is the most beautiful memory that can never be replaced.”
Image source: Mathew Coulton
#34 Caravan Family Holidays
“A happy childhood is perhaps the most fortunate gift in life.”
Image source: Alex Plesovskich
#35 Swimming Lessons
“For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.”
Image source: Leo Rivas
#36 Learning To Read
“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so.”
Image source: Michał Parzuchowski
#37 Spelling Tests
“One book, one pen, one child and one teacher can change the world.”
Image source: RODNAE Productions
#38 Handwriting Lessons
“It is only when we start enjoying childhood that we have stepped out of it.”
Image source: Markus Spiske
#39 Your Favorite Stuffed Animal
“Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.”
Image source: Paulo Almeida
#40 Memorable Children’s Storybooks
“Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.”
Image source: Lina Kivaka
#41 The First Time They Saw The Ocean
“Growing up is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.”
Image source: Steven Van Loy
#42 Collecting Shells On The Beach
“The older I grow, the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.”
Image source: Brian Kelly
#43 Climbing Trees
“I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I’m spending my adulthood wishing I were younger.”
Image source: Annie Spratt
#44 Paddling In The Sea
“The mud and dirt will wash off, but the childhood memories will last a lifetime.”
Image source: Ashley K Bowen
#45 Exploring Rock Pools
“Childhood memories are the sweetest memories of the past.”
Image source: Kelly Sikkema
#46 Ice Cream Floats
“Childhood is the light of our life, we must keep it safe within our hearts.”
Image source: Louis Hansel
#47 Running Around Bare Foot Outside
“I miss being the child whose eyes shone brightly at the thought of seeing the simplest of things.”
Image source: Ron Lach
#48 Blowing Out The Candles On A Birthday Cake
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
Image source: Anastasia Shuraeva
#49 Flying A Kite
“A day spent making happy memories with your kids is never wasted.”
Image source: Önder Örtel
#50 Painting, Arts And Crafts
“Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.”
Image source: cottonbro studio
#51 Jumping In Puddles
“If you’ve never jumped from one couch to the other to avoid the lava, then you’ve never had a childhood.”
Image source: Germán TR
#52 Going To Theme Parks
“The story from childhood is like a flower pressed between the pages of a book – you touch it and it crumbles to dust.”
Image source: Suzy Hazelwood
#53 The Smell Of Their Favorite Meal Cooking On The Stove
“Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.”
Image source: Athena
#54 Playing Hop Scotch
“Childhood is practically the most beautiful part of a person’s life, the most innocent too.”
Image source: Charlie f
#55 Sports Days
“The happiness never leaves me whenever I am reminiscing about my childhood days. I treasure them.”
Image source: Kampus Production
#56 Playground Games
“If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.”
Image source: Simon
#57 Playing On A Rope Swing In The Woods
“Childhood is not a race to see how quickly a child can excel academically. Childhood is a small window of time to play, build friendships, and have fun while learning along the way.”
Image source: Annie Spratt
#58 Buying A School Uniform
“Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.”
Image source: Joseph Chan
#59 Playing In The Paddling Pool
“While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.”
Image source: Brandon Morgan
#60 School Packed Lunches
“Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.”
Image source: Yan Krukau
#61 First Time Getting Told Off By A Teacher
“Adults are just outdated children.”
Image source: Taylor Flowe
#62 Staying Up Late For New Year’s Parties
“Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back on your childhood everything is different?”
Image source: Pixabay
#63 Buying Penny Sweets From The Village Shop
“Children are not only innocent and curious but also optimistic and joyful and essentially happy. They are, in short, everything adults wish they could be.”
Image source: Sneha Chekuri
#64 Being In The School Play
“Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child’s eye – it is very beautiful.”
Image source: Brett Sayles
#65 First Day Of Secondary School
“In every child there is a piece of the future.”
Image source: CDC
#66 Family Holidays Abroad
“There is no land like the land of your childhood.”
Image source: Swansway Motor Group
#67 Bath Time
“Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath.”
Image source: Isaac Quesada
#68 A Day Full Of Surprises
“When you are a child, there is joy. There is laughter. And most of all, there is trust. Trust in your fellows. When you are an adult… then comes suspicion, hatred, and fear.”
Image source: Maxime Bhm
#69 Recording The Music Charts On A Sunday
“Will you turn back time and let me live my childhood once more? I was happier back then.”
Image source: Dmitriy Demidov
#70 School Dinners
“When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn’t the old home you missed but your childhood.”
Image source: Abigail Miller
#71 Fighting With Siblings
“The happiness never leaves me whenever I am reminiscing about my childhood days. I treasure them.”
Image source: cottonbro studio
#72 Using Jumpers For Goal Posts
“Childhoods never last. But everyone deserves one.”
Image source: KoolShooters
#73 Sliding On The Grass In School Uniform
“I love those random childhood memories that make me smile no matter what is going on in my life right now.”
Image source: Thirdman
#74 Paper Rounds
“There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.”
Image source: anaterate
#75 Sitting Cross-Legged In Assemblies
“Great childhoods are made of feelings of connection and positive experiences, not things.”
Image source: CDC
#76 Winning An Award
“Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.”
Image source: Toby Bowles
#77 Singing Hymns
“Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.”
Image source: GemmaRay23
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