What Do and Don't you miss from childhood?

[robinh]

Very interesting thought come up with this.....

Things I miss
- Living in a time and place where leaving your house and walking all the way across town was safe. I lived with my dad's parents and would walk better part of 2 miles to my other grandparents house and back. No one every thought anything about it.
- Laying in my bed at the house and hearing the train come through town on the track 1/2 a block away. Loud, but a soothing sound.
- My mom's parents had a huge garden. I would go there, take a salt shaker out and eat fresh vegetables right off the plant after brushing the dirt off. I can still remember the taste.

Things I don't miss
- Moving from the small town to a large town - the noise of the traffic outside our window and the scary amount of people I would see every day.
- Moving 4 times in 4th grade. Took forever for me to learn that people don't always go away.
- Being the awkward, gangly child that was always picked last for sports because I was so unathletic.

[Kirsten]

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- Being the awkward, gangly child that was always picked last for sports because I was so unathletic.

Oh, I can relate! It used to be the same for me!

[Alysser]

Thing I do miss:
-I miss playing with my animal figurines with the neighborhood kids and playing basketball, going out on the trail behind our houses and jumping off the dirt mounds with the bikes....if you didn't wear a helmet you were "cool". I miss playing outside and a lot of the nieghborhood kids who have long since moved away.
-Elementary School: We had fun class parties and we were all friends. No one ever made fun of anyone as far as I can remember. Getting books from the school library...those were the days
-Going Birding every weekend with my dad.

Things I don't miss:
-Being told I can't do any sports because of the heart condition.
-Being in the hospital and having surgeries to correct the heart condition.
-Hearing my parents fight and thinking they were gonna get a divorce (but I guess every kid thought that!).
-Being bullied, especially in 6th grade. I walk weird, so people like to make fun of me for it. Funny how you're judged as a person simply because you walk differently. Never would I have thought it would matter so much before 6th grade. I never noticed it until people decided to make fun of me. I am in college now, and I sort of grew out of it, but from time-to-time people will still say something. I will always remember what people said about me simply because of that. It was 8 years ago, and I STILL recall it.

[snakemama]

I miss ... my mom's cooking every evening. She is an AMAZING cook, and I only get to enjoy that occasionally now!

I don't miss ... living in terror of something setting off my dad, resulting in a beating. I never had a safe place.

[catnapper]

I miss: Riding round and round the block on my big wheel. What a big adventure!

I do not miss: Having my hair washed and set in pin curls. Torture!

[redbird]

I miss not having to worry about anything, not bills or any other adult issues. I miss sitting on the stoup with other kids from the apartment and telling ghost stories and just hanging out without a care in the world except of course getting good grades.

I don't miss having a curfew and all the rules in the household and of having a very strict Father.

All in all tho, I had a pretty good childhood.

[Casper]

I do miss...
My dad. I was a daddy's girl and very tomboyish, so I did everything with him. Helped him in the workshop, watched Star Trek, went camping.... I think one of my very favorite things to do was lay on our tummies on the bed and he would teach me to read. I still have my favorite book from that time, which was also one of my dad's favorites from when he was a kid.


I don't miss...
The summer of '98. I was in daycare and had tubes in my ears, so whenever we got to go to the city pool once a week I had to wear this ridiculous hot pink band around my head. On top of that, I frequently got into chiggers so all the other kids deemed me unapproachable due to a "contagious case of cooties". I might as well just went to daycare every day holding a giant sign that said "freakshow". Oh, and I can't forget the fact that I also had tiny squinty eyes so on the playground everyone would call me a spy and run away from me. Seriously, the list goes on and on. Now I can kind of laugh at the things that were done to me, but at the time it was the worst feeling in the world to be an outcast.

[lolli94]

I do miss...
hours and hours of playing with my sisters and our 20+ toy horses. Riding my real horse. Biking to the grocery store for my mom. Going to the hardware store with my dad.

I don't miss...
Well...I can't think of anything I didn't like about my childhood...

[Alysser]

Seriously, the list goes on and on. Now I can kind of laugh at the things that were done to me, but at the time it was the worst feeling in the world to be an outcast.

Courtney, I think that's why we both like Spock so much....

[Kirsten]

I miss not having to worry about anything, not bills or any other adult issues. (...)

You're so right about that!!

[Bonny]

I miss a lot of things my dad playing his accordion all the polkas, & waltz's.

We sure did have fun as kids growing up. We had those clamp on steel wheel roller skates with a key to adjust the front piece onto our good old saddle shoes, we would roller skate over at the tennis court, there were no sidewalks on our dead end street. There was a huge groove of pines we would play hide & seek in. During the summer we would slide down a hill on cardboard, fly kites in March one time we had a kite up over night tied the string to a clothes line pole, played marbles at school with big holes up near the building to shoot the marbles into, played soft ball with no parents around made up our own rules, walked in mud puddles when it rained, climbed trees, swung from grape vines in the woods, went to the sandpit when the workers were gone & collected agates & still have them, danced to rock & roll music in our basement & wore out three record players, still have those 45 records. In the winter it was skating at the ice rink, or down on the Mississippi River, sliding down the neighborhood hill on runner sleds & hooking up our feet on the other persons sled & making trains flying over the bumps. I used my cousins ski's & would climb the sand pit fence & ski down the hill in the evening with the street light to help me see where I was going. Fun Times For Sure.

I don't miss my mom & aunts giving me a Toni home perm. I came out with the first Afro look before it was even in style. They would leave the rods in to long & burn my hair. Our schools never closed in the winters so we walked to school in really cold weather & back then the girls had to wear dresses or skirts, very very cold on the legs. I didn't like going to Sunday school it was like a big dress up contest, there were girls that actually wore party dresses to Sunday school. I liked school & I didn't like school it depended on the teacher & the class, recess was always fun . I don't miss taking cod liver oil every morning. I don't miss my folks smoking cigarettes when I was growing up it eventually did them both in.