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Sometimes our childhood experiences are emotionally intense, which can create strong mental models. These experiences and our assumptions about them are then reinforced in our memory and can continue to drive our behavior as adults.

It's hard to separate your remembered childhood and its emotional legacy from the childhoods that are being lived out in your house, by your children. If you're lucky, your kids will help you make that distinction.

Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.

Most childhoods are full of anxiety, but that tends to get smoothed over, so you have a sense of nostalgia.

I don't really have childhood-type memories. I had to grow up very young.

I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.

We're naturally programmed to endure a muddle of emotions as we leave childhood behind.

When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.

I think, as you're growing up, your emotions are just as deep as they are when you're an adult. You're ability to feel lonely, longing, confused or angry are just as deep. We don't feel things more as we get older.

Some memories are unforgettable, remaining ever vivid and heartwarming!