Childhood Experiences



A movie theater might seem like an odd babysitter, but in the forties that is exactly what my parents used it for. Every Saturday and Sunday my sister and I paid our seven cents and walked into the theater in Tahoka, Texas, where the smell of popcorn drifted past our noses and made our mouths water. To save money, Mom made our popcorn at home and sent us off to the theater with a bag of it in tow. It wasn’t unusual for a double feature to be playing, and back then you could stay as long as you wanted. We usually did. We watched the movie twice, along with cartoons, newsreels, and action features like Flash Gordon and Superman. That’s when my love for cowboy movies began, and it continues today. Childhood experiences often stay with us long after we grow up. Some are simple memories, like Saturday afternoons at the movie theater, while others are the lessons our parents teach us along the way.


Childhood Experiences

Childhood experiences always flow into adulthood.

If only this truth were better understood,

More parents would teach a path that is strong,

One with God’s truth, a path not wrong.


The lessons learned in childhood days

Often guide us in later ways.

Truth once planted, wisely sown,

Will shape life when one is grown.


"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it." ( Proverbs 22:6, (NKJV).



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