How often to you talk about your childhood?

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I'm just wondering. I don't talk about it that much, sometimes but not a whole lot. Most of my conversations are around today and what's happening. I lived with friends and they didn't mention too much but would talk about maybe a cartoon they remember or a story with a childhood friend etc. It would be maybe once every few weeks or so. Another friend, talked about childhood almost every day, a story about a cartoon, or food, or something. How often would you talk about your childhood?

Often. Not all the time but if something triggers a memory I would chat about it. My colleagues are the same way.

Not very often, it wasn't great to be honest but it did shape me as a person and as a parent so good came out of bad.

Not very often at all. I try not to remember the past, it’s not that I had a terrible childhood, but I lived in the shadow of my brother and it wasn’t the best.

Quite a lot. Usually in the context of feeling really sad and nostalgic that the happy times are gone, while recognising that my mother's behaviour and treatment of me and my brother contributed greatly to my anxiety and depression and an adult.

Hard to get my head around, really. It's difficult to explain. I felt I was happy, but then when you get older you realise certain things weren't normal.

Rarely.

It wasn't a very pleasant time. Grinding poverty, low aspirations, shit behaviour towards women when I was growing up ( 60s/70s)

Rarely, and pretty much only when drunk, and only to DH. I’ll be tired and emotional and getting angry and upset about the poverty and the abuse. I don’t share it with any friends and so DH shoulders all the hurt when it leaks out, thankfully it’s not often but sometimes I just can’t help it. On a positive note, I’m 100 per cent certain my DDs will have completely the opposite experience, they already reminisce about hilarious things that happened when they were little (usually involves them pranking their dad 😂).

At least twice a week.
I think it connects my kids with their family background. We live abroad and they have no grandparents so I feel the need to keep family memories alive.
It’s often “When I were a lass.....” negative comparison with kids these days, too!

rarely. It was shit! I don`t need to dwell on it lol

Not very often. I am more of a live in the present kind of person and my childhood is now a long time ago. If it does come up, it is more of a "oh I went on a school trip there years ago" kind of way, rather than an in-depth discussion of childhood events. I never talk about TV programmes of my childhood or similar because I don't find that kind of chat interesting. I have some friends who do though, and if they enjoy it, then they should go for it.

Not often - only with my sister - she's the only one who gets it because she was there.

All the time. It keeps the memory of my mum alive. And I want my kids to know as much about her as possible because they never got to meet her, which is a great loss.

I talk quite a lot about it, I think.

Dd2's friends used to pile in the car and ask for a story from my childhood for ages. I got to the point I was running out, and they'd say "no tell us again about the fire alarm one."

I rarely bring it up. Because my husband and I were childhood friends, I suppose I mostly speak about my youth with him when we're talking about how it "used to be." LOL.

I find it useless to mull over things that happened so long ago and I try and focus more on the future... :] However, there is nothing wrong with speaking frequently about your childhood; it is an important part of one's life, of course.