I think because I'm not a parent my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.
I have a painter's memory. I can remember things from my childhood which were so powerfully imprinted on me the whole scene comes back.
I have fond memories of my childhood. I spent five wonderful years on a popular TV show but I didn't have a normal childhood. I was tutored for grades 4-11.
I think that in a sense there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory or the past or childhood.
Some of your childhood traumas may be remembered with incredible clarity while others are so frightening or incomprehensible that your conscious mind buries the memory in your unconscious.
Of the women in my childhood I retain above all the memory of their perfumes perfumes that lingered - filling the lift with fragrance long after they had gone.