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For Authors: September 25, 2019 Issue [#9776]




 This week: Going back to childhood
  Edited by: THANKFUL SONALI Library Class! Author IconMail Icon
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There's something about childhood memories that is universal.
it doesn't matter what the actual memory is.
All of us were kids once, and this, in itself, connects us.


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Dear Reader,

At a workshop I conducted on 'perceptions' recently, I started with participants thinking about their very first friend, and why they liked that friend. The idea was to start with early perceptions (or the lack) and go on to how these build over time. The childhood memories formed the introduction, and then we moved on to current perceptions.

One of the participants is someone who is actually helping me market my workshops. When we were discussing the next possible theme, she immediately said, "Childhood memories".

Turns out the 'childhood memories' part of the workshop was what had been most meaningful for her personally, and something she felt she could market to others. I tried to point out that it was only the introduction, and that the rest of the workshop had been enriching, too. Somehow, we kept going round in circles on that -- with her coming back to 'childhood memories'.

This got me thinking about the times I have been taken back to my childhood, and I found myself smiling to myself.

Yes, she's right. Childhood memories are powerful, and, to put it crudely, marketable. We've all been children once, and we can all go in to the skin of other kids and empathize with them. And that's something people would pay to experience.

The funny part is, it doesn't matter what the actual memory is. Whether you walked two miles to school while someone else went in the school-bus and someone else was chauffeured in Daddy's car. Whether your teacher was indulgent while someone else's smacked them for minor mischief. Whether you helped around the house with a vacuum cleaner or a mop and pail. Whether you visited your grandparents over long vacations, or took a flight abroad ... it doesn't matter. The thing is, when you narrate a childhood experience, everyone becomes a child with you, and can relate - because they see the experience through the eyes of a child. Write a story which takes readers back to childhood, chances are you'll get immediate responses.

When, exactly, do we lose our 'childhood tinted' glasses, and stop relating to others? When do we become 'us and them', instead of just 'we'?

You know something? I think, deep down inside, all of us retain that child in us forever. And, at some level, can relate to anyone else who had once been a child. Which is why it's important to evoke the child -- through our writing, or our sessions, or around the breakfast table as a family, where adults and children are together ... in any way we can.

Remind us that 'we' are 'we'.

Thanks for listening!
Look at the piggie -- Kiya drew him, and Secret Squirrel gifted him to me! Thank you!!



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That's an interesting story Sonali! I think parents at least certainly do want other people to think their children are successful/happy/accomplished even when they are not.....

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I am so guilty of jumping to conclusions (especially ones making me the victim). Thanks for helping me want to see some alternative reasons.

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Sometimes we learn from listening.

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The newsletter shows the languages learning and their interaction. It is an interesting issue which shows that nowadays different cultures become close to each other.

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