childhood memory
Youth's remembered moment
A childhood memory is a recollection from one's early years, typically before adolescence.
The phrase often carries nostalgic weight—childhood memories tend to be emotionally vivid even when factually hazy: The smell of pine always triggers childhood memories of Christmas at my grandparents' house.
What counts as a childhood memory shifts as we age; a thirty-year-old's childhood memories reach back further than a teenager's.
- summer campSeasonal youth retreat
- keepsakeItem preserved for sentiment
- innocenceFreedom from wrongdoing
- flashbackInvoluntary past memory
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
treehouse · blanket fort · bedtime stories · recollection · teddy bear · imaginary friend · tradition · past · childlike wonder · fireflies · remembrance · birthday parties · reminiscence · growing up · family vacations · youth · laughter · skinned knees
- memoryremember, forget, recall, memorize, recollect
- memoriesremember, recollections, reminisce, remembrances, reminiscence
- personal narrativesautobiography, life story, personal history, personal accounts, diary
- family memoirsfamily history, family saga
- musingsrandom thought, idle thought, deep thought, daydream, introspection
- storiesstory, tale, tales, myth, legend