Tag: childhood
group name: childgrowup
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May 27, 2007 12:09 AM EDT --
I saw someone else do this, so thought I would give it a try.
1) I remember that we sat down and ate dinner together each evening as a family...NO exceptions.
2) On Sundays my dad would kill one of our . . .
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May 30, 2007 12:15 AM EDT --
I grew up on a farm and wanted to share a few things that happened during those years. One time my car slid into the ditch, but there was nobody home to help me get it out. I called the neighbor, . . .
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March 27, 2007 10:11 PM EDT --
I was reading an article by Julie J., Why Are Role Models For Girls So Different Than For Boys? and I started thinking about the role models I have had in my life. I have to say that at this point . . .
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March 29, 2007 03:16 PM EDT --
One student shared some wisdom with me today, and I thought I'd pass it on to you.
Alexey told me, "First you are four and then after a long time you are five. Then it takes even longer . . .
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June 07, 2007 11:02 PM EDT --
I debated with myself as to whether to write this or not. Being sentimental about my dad has never been an easy thing for me to do. Before he passed away ten years ago, I would stand by . . .
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March 03, 2008 05:06 PM EST --
(Fictional story, yet based on my own experience. How easily the prejudicial hateful words of a parent can affect a young girl's self esteem)
Hannah sat on the sofa looking . . .
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May 28, 2007 05:27 PM EDT --
Inspired by Michelle C's post, here are 10 of my childhood memories. Some are happy, some are sad, some are just plain odd! Sit back and enjoy the ride with me.
My parents divorced . . .
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May 29, 2007 08:12 PM EDT --
I have been tagged (thank you, Ms Lynn) in the current round, which requires an article about childhood memories. I think I'm supposed to write ten, but I don't know if I can come up with that . . .
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August 10, 2007 08:55 PM EDT --
I came across this picture of myself that was taken in 1966. I can't recall much about that time. What the heck was up with the green striped shirt? I don't remember being "9". . . .
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November 14, 2007 08:22 PM EST --
My cousin Debby and I had missed the school bus and because we didn't have a way to school it was decided that we could walk together. Afterall, we didn't live far from the school.
We . . .
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March 20, 2007 09:43 AM EDT --
The sky over the delta was metallic in the heat. I knew that a few miles away the cotton was growing and that a few miles beyond that a river was flowing. I knew that between them . . .
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September 26, 2008 08:12 PM EDT --
Growing up, monopoly was "the" game in my neighborhood. We would leave a board set up at one of our houses and play the same game for days. It was a lot of fun. Now, I'm rediscovering the . . .
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April 04, 2007 11:19 PM EDT --
I went to one of my schools to teach today. A private kindergarten, they had just had their easter egg hunt and party. I knew I wouldn't be able to get through the lesson I had planned . . .
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March 23, 2008 05:18 PM EDT --
This is my oldest son Roshane. My husband and I had Roshane while we were still in college, and I am amazed how easy a child he has been. He has moved with us across the Atlantic quite a few times, and . . .
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August 28, 2007 10:33 AM EDT --
What do you remember about your childhood? (When I say childhood, I'm talking 5th grade and younger)
I distinctly remember the smell of Play-Doh. There was, and still is, nothing . . .
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June 05, 2007 06:18 PM EDT --
Today is my tenth birthday. Dad told me a little while ago that he has a surprise for me, told me to get dressed, that we're going out. "Just you and me," he said. I begged him to tell me . . .
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November 28, 2006 01:19 PM EST --
I was about 6 years old. My mother and father seperated and I lived with my father. He sent me to stay with some people who had 2 boys. I remember hearing sleigh bells and that jolly . . .
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March 18, 2007 02:21 PM EDT --
Yesterday I tackled a project that I have been putting off for quite some time. I took the bunk beds down in the bedroom which also is home to my computer and my "office". I've . . .
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November 27, 2006 01:55 AM EST --
You'll be pleased to know that my Annie Oakley impersonating days are long over.
Born August 13, 1860 in Patterson Township, Ohio, in a log cabin, Phoebe Ann Oakley Mozee was dealt a tough hand in . . .
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September 28, 2007 04:57 AM EDT --
Don't you all come running to the AidStation to try to stump me with questions just because you know it's my birthday today!
Ha. Just go easy on me... I'll consider it my birthday . . .
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