Childhood Memories

Childhood Memories

1. Think back to your childhood. What can you remember from your early childhood? Where did your remembrance occur? What meaning did it have at the time? How has that meaning changed over time?


- While reflecting back on some of my early childhood memories, I find it difficult to recall many but luckily some are quite apparent. Some of those memories include, at a young age playing all sorts of games with my older brother in our back yard, attending both elementary and middle school, and being involved with my church’s youth group.


- The particular places to where my remembrance occurred vary from each memory. For instance, playing with my older brother happened over 15 years ago, at one of my parents first homes in Dallas. Attending both elementary and middle school happened on the same street, being that both locations were side by side with each other. Lastly, attending my church’s youth group occurred at a couple different locations, being that my church at that time relocated


- The meaning behind playing games with my older brother gives me a great sense of happiness, being that those are some of my greatest memories form growing up. How that meaning has changed, it hasn’t really, other than those memories are more meaningful now than before.

- Attending both elementary and middle school honestly didn’t have much meaning to me back then, it was something that was simply required of me. Looking back on it now though, it has great meaning in that it help pave my way towards were I am at now.

- Attending my church’s youth group had great amounts of meeting to me back then; it gave me a sense belonging somewhere. Now that I’m older I do appreciate having that then, because now it is an essential part of my life.



Some educators argue that we learn much more from our failures than from our success. Why? Can you think of a situation in which you learned a lot from a mistake?

- I have to agree with this statement. I do believe we do learn more from our failures than from our successes. In our failures we learn from what we did wrong, why we did it wrong, and then come up with ways of succeeding next time. For instance this occurred to me when I was trying to fix the brakes on my car. I just could not figure it out, but during the process of coming to this conclusion, I missed up some vital components. So I learned from that failure just to take my car somewhere to have it serviced instead.




3. Can you think of an activity that makes you dumber, not smarter? Do you learn anything from that activity? Explain.

List an activity that makes me dumber and not smarter? Well the first one I can think of is simply sitting in front of the television watching it all day long, but the particular channel being on sitcoms all day long. There’s hardly anything one could learn from watching those all day, if I may even argue that one would actually get dumber by indulging in such behavior.