Childhood

How was your childhood growing up? What are your best memories of it? What are your worst? If you could change anything would you? Was it happy or was it sad? Depending on if you consider childhood through high school or it ends when one becomes a teenager, what are your fondest memories?

Myself, I was fortunate enough to grow up in neighborhood in a somewhat new subdivision on a cull de sac that had lots of kids. Most of the families had at least four children and one had thirteen kids. We had water fights, lemonade stands, football games and baseball. Despite my challenges of being born premie with developmental issues, I was still accepted. Afterwards, my family left the small township and moved north a few hundred miles where everything changed.

Growing up in the 60s and 70s, what are the values did you teach or are teaching your children and grandchildren? Are you still in touch with your childhood friends? Myself, my Mom kept her friends since she was a little girl and I have too. My Dad and my other siblings changed friends as they moved. My youngest brother moved back to the town of the north where he has kept his lifer friends.

My encouragement to you is to reach out to those childhood friends of your youth to feed your soul and to laugh about the silliness of life. To ask, “whatever happened to? Or, “do you remember when we did this?’ You deserve it. Facebook has bought my elementary and junior high friends back together which we share about the smallest and biggest parts of our lives without judgment.

Thank you,

Leslie Elizabeth David.