You know those strong clear memories you have of your childhood?The silly things about the places you've lived like the colours of letter boxes and things? I had many of my home country New Zealand or in paticular of  the city Wellington. I have been visiting again this Easter after

I've decided it's best to keep those innocent memories living their own life in your mind like an old movie than to investigate and validate them later. I've found it very disapointing and heres why for me. When you are a child for some reason small somethings grate into your memory and are never forgotten they can be the silliest things that will be recored superior over world events or horrors of the same times and era. Like as I mentioned the colour of letter boxes and how many stairs lead to the old house or the angles in buildings and shops. Memories are what make us feel closer to ourselves, we refect with confidence on past events of course we were there to witness them, true? But over time the day to day things are fotgotten and all your left  with after years are fond scattered pictures of your childhood, they are detached and vaige but at least they are yours to reflect on time again.  When you are a child you see things from the height and couriosity of a child. Often as I learnt when you return you can't find those memories in your surroundings, they are lost in time and without reference to your own biogrpghy. Your outlook is now bigger and panoramic with age and you can't find the small frames of memories that seamed so detailed.  Immediatly your old memories, the one you have reflected and religed on for years are distrurb and smudged like some kind of lie in history. I have lost my innocent memories to realism this week and I know I will not be available revisit.  Memories of childhood are the most valuable and now they will be replaced and maintained for ever just as I have pictured today, becuase I am wise enough to not forget details now but unforunatly not smart enough to be imaginative as a child and see the small things in life like colours of letterboxes, I can only see the big city not just the old house. As a new parent and a new adult really - My advise from my experince this week is to record your childs memories through pictures, scapbooks, videos or how ever you can, they are presious and although memories are good they can dissapoint if they are the only thing you can compare again from an adult's perpective. Help your child record their life, this will be reflected own for ever even through their adulthood as I leárn't this week.