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What do you remember about your childhood? I bet that something good and pleasant takes a decent place among your memories. Especially if your parents did their best to make something truly magical for you.
So the user Molly Wadzeck Kraus recently shared on X a TikTok she saw, where people talked about their 'magical' childhood memories that their parents created for them. The author asked her subscribers to share similar memories too - and a thread with almost 8K likes, full of wonderful sweet stories, resulted. Today, we offer you a selection of the best postings of it.
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You know, my aunt is now well over 80, she lost her mom when she was 5, and one day she told me that she kept and carried through the long decades of her life just one single memory of her mom. As she walks along the parapet that encloses the city railway station, holding mom's hand, and they laugh joyfully together...
This story at the time made me think - what will we really leave in the memory of our children? What moments, good or bad, will remain decades later, when we'll no longer walk this Earth, and our aged kids will tell their own stories about their parents? And why is it so important to create this warmest magic in our kids' childhood?
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Daya Meyer 2 months ago
It is not about money. It is realising that another human being had been thinking of us and wanted to make us happy and smiling. Still works for me. Just blow some amazing big soap bubbles and I am 5 years old again.
For some, it will be a joint trip to a theme park, some will definitely remember their first baseball or football game, and for others, some small, seemingly insignificant gift will pop up in their memory - long since finished its days in a broken form, but no less memorable. Such is the specificity of our human memory...
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Brenda 2 months ago
I grew up on the East Coast. We ice skated on a local lake every winter, but one year, for some reason, we couldn't. In our neighborhood, we had a miniscule backyard. It wasn't much bigger than my bedroom. Smallest yard. So my mom hosed down our backyard every night for a week (without telling us). Come Saturday morning about 11a/12p, my mom had all our neighborhood friends in that yard skating. 2 or 3 other moms came to help wrangle kids, make hot chocolate on the tiny porch, whatever helped. One of the BEST memories ever!
"Yes, human memory is in fact very selective - especially when it comes to our childhood memories," says Irina Matveeva, a psychologist and certified NLP specialist, whom Bored Panda asked for a comment here. "By and large, we remember not so much facts and events from childhood, as emotions, our reaction to these events."
"That's why, for example, someone can completely forget a lot of fancy gifts that they were literally showered with as a kid - but at the same time, some trinket bought by dad at a gas station during a trip together will stick in our memory. Because this little gift actually 'triggers' a good memory of the time spent together in our head."
"After all, who are we if not a collection of memories that largely define any human's personality? Each of us has our own magical childhood memories - and it's in our power to create the same, if not better, for our own children," Irina concludes.
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boredhousekitty 2 months ago
My dad would do something similar. Whenever he had an office meeting or seminar, everyone would usually be provided with a box of snacks. He would always bring his home for me and my siblings.
Okay, words are words, but the most important thing here is, of course, emotions. So, please, read these sweet and magical stories, share your own memories in the comments to this post... and if you also have children, treat them to something nice today! Who knows, maybe decades from now, this day will be remembered as the most magical in someone's life?
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meow point1 2 months ago
My mum would make up these creatures called "dream fairies" to get me to sleep, and she went all-out, creating all this made-up lore!
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Brenda 2 months ago
Mom was a single parent of 3 kids. We never, and I mean NEVER, went out to eat during that time. But once a month, she'd get a 6pk of Coke and a large pizza from the only pizza in town. On that one night we were allowed to sit 9n the floor in front of our single TV and eat while watching something together (back when there were only 3 regular channels & 3 UHF channels. Never realized how poor we actually were until we moved states when I was 14.
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Manic Mama 2 months ago
Did this with my kids on their way to school. We're all much older now, but still play a mean game of I Spy.
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Damned_Cat 2 months ago
A church with a bar? Cool! If you pass out drunk on Saturday night, at least you will be in time for services on Sunday.
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Nadine Debard 2 months ago
Last year I began creating decorations with my 2 yo (painted cardboard cut in shapes, heart, christmas tree, etc. and bows), and we offered some of them to his grands-parents and his nanny. We will do the same every year as a new tradition. I also found tenths of vintage ornaments for only 2€ in goodwill that look exactly the same as the ones we had when I was a child.
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Stephanie Did It 2 months ago
I hope OP learned that there are better forms of enchantment than the five finger discount!
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Bertha Madott 2 months ago
All the cousins in the family would play Bingo on Christmas Eve. After the traditional Italian fish supper. Mom would wrap little token gifts for the winners. We had a ball. As the eldest of the grandchildren I discovered as a young adult that my mother (the bingo caller) used to CHEAT!!!!! So that the little kids would win first. She was a great lady.
Bertha Madott 2 months ago
All the cousins in the family would play Bingo on Christmas Eve. After the traditional Italian fish supper. Mom would wrap little token gifts for the winners. We had a ball. As the eldest of the grandchildren I discovered as a young adult that my mother (the bingo caller) used to CHEAT!!!!! So that the little kids would win first. She was a great lady.
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