Happy Memories? Do You have One?

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The younger you were at the time, the better. I cannot remember too much from my young childhood, besides the warm feeling from boat riding till the sun down, my friend teaching me the lyrics to a song, and the days my mom would pick me up from grade school and we would discuss my activities while we were going home. And I can remember one vacation with my family by the seashore when I was very young, when my aunt showed me how to find seashells hiding behind the corals, as well as a trip to a local movie house where we rode a boat for almost an hour amidst the big waves. All of these memories leave me with happy, warm feelings about my childhood. I also remember playing with my brothers and telling jokes, myths and legends before going to bed and other minor incidents, but these more mundane memories don't really carry the same emotional weight.

Any memories of yesteryear do you have?  Of being a child that makes you think either "those were good times" or "that was good parenting"?

The younger you were at the time, the better. I cannot remember too much from my young childhood, besides the warm feeling from boat riding till the sun down, my friend teaching me the lyrics to a song, and the days my mom would pick me up from grade school and we would discuss my activities while we were going home. And I can remember one vacation with my family by the seashore when I was very young, when my aunt showed me how to find seashells hiding behind the corals, as well as a trip to a local movie house where we rode a boat for almost an hour amidst the big waves. All of these memories leave me with happy, warm feelings about my childhood. I also remember playing with my brothers and telling jokes, myths and legends before going to bed and other minor incidents, but these more mundane memories don't really carry the same emotional weight.

I would like to know if other people have more happy memories from their childhoods and, if so, what are they like? If your parents created loving memories for you, what sorts of things were you doing together? I guess I'm partly trying to understand why some things stick in our minds, to become happy memories, and others don't. As well as how to help create positive memories for a child. (Obviously, "be a good parent/aunt/sitter/friend" is the default answer, but beyond that, what makes the memory?)