What do you miss most about your childhood.

Mutant z

What i miss about my childhood is going outside to play with my friends and not having a care in the world, everything seemed to be so much simpler when you were a child without having to deal with the stress adult life brings i really miss that. Events like Halloween and Christmas were things i used to genuinely look forward to now they just simply feel like any other day, but as a kid i used to love going out trick or treating and opening my presents under the Christmas tree everything seemed so exciting then and something to look forward to but as an adult all these things pass me by practical unnoticed which is a shame, its all part of growing up i guess but i do sometimes yearn for the days of my childhood, who else feels exactly the same way.

branie2

Presents from Santa

Ubbquittious

Simple cars that you'd pack 7 or 8 people in easily with a few in the boot.
Less EU regulation
People seemed nicer
People showing off their bungalows
Glenroe

branie2

Anything Goes and Pajo's Junkbox

quickbeam

The unadulterated love, support and devotion bestowed upon me by my parents and family.





















Oh, wait .... that wasn't me :eek:


Okay then - my pets, especially my favourite dog. Gone, but never forgotten.

w/s/p/c/

People not taking offense to absolutely anything and everything

Pac1Man

Pogs and other assorted non-electronic gizmos.

biko

How great TV shows were back then, or so I thought.

rainbow kirby

Being able to not care about a lot of things.

sumsar

Summer holidays.. man looking back, I took those for granted..

A couple of months off of work a year, every year.. I'll keep dreaming.

Harry Palmr

The endless summers (yeah right)

Dial Hard

Falling asleep on the way home from somewhere and my dad carrying me from the car straight up to my room.

freshpopcorn

It was a lot easier to believe that anything was possible!

JoeyJJ

Youth is wasted on the young. However I have 2 santa believers and the joy of the children on xmas morning reminds me of those days, we didn't have loads however the joy was amazing.

Red lemonade and playing pool in pubs a Sunday or 2 a month

Football until Dark then tip the can.

Footballers could take a tackle back then too.

Summer holidays, panini stickers, top trumps, space hoppers, crappy soda pop

Mutant z

w/s/p/c/ wrote: »

People not taking offense to absolutely anything and everything

Indeed people just got on with life then and didnt feel the need to get offended on behalf of others, it seems everyday now someone is offended by the most stupid trivial things and its being passed on to children, they just need to grow a pair to deal with life and stop being offended all the time.

razorblunt

w/s/p/c/ wrote: »

People not taking offense to absolutely anything and everything

This. I know it gets bandied about a lot but this whole "mind your P's and Q's" is incredibly annoying.

I also miss proper Dairy Milk and early90s Tanora.
There should be unhealthy options still available and it's up to you to go buy them. Fcking Nanny State.

Steve F

My Parents

Mint Sauce

No responsibilities, Penny Sweets, and Smiths Monster Munch.

Brussels Sprout

Ubbquittious wrote: »

Less EU regulation

Daily Mail reader in this thread

Estrellita

Mutant z wrote: »

What do you miss about your childhood.

My parents

Malayalam

Innocence. And ''spirit-shocking wonder''. (Patrick Kavanagh's words, not mine)

Not having to think about my teeth.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

w/s/p/c/ wrote: »

People not taking offense to absolutely anything and everything

I'm pretty sure that as a child you wouldn't notice.

Boom_Bap

Bills didn't exist.

branie2

Milk deliveries to your door

somefeen

Its easy to look back and only remember the good things. It was actually pretty crap if you think about it.
You can't drive
You have to go to school
Homework
Teachers


It goes on and on.
Being an adult is 100 times better.

WoollyRedHat

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Bills didn't exist.

Ulysses Gaze

Summer Holidays...3 months of freedom.

ThisRegard

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Bills didn't exist.

Yeah, they were just called William back then.

branie2 wrote: »

Milk deliveries to your door

We still get milk to our door twice a week - www.mymilkman.ie

branie2

ThisRegard wrote: »

Yeah, they were just called William back then.

And Billy

Nettle Soup

Swimming in the local river in all kinds of weather. Climbing trees. Fishing a lot. Cycling around aimlessly. Robbing apples. Graffiti. Playing pool.
The A-Team, Dallas, Hill Street Blues.

I guess I can do all of that still but I just never get the time.

ThisRegard

branie2 wrote: »

And Billy

Only if you had a lambeg drum.

whisky_galore

Setting fire to things.

mad muffin

My mother. She died when I was 4…

Mutant z

Beĺieving in santa was among the greatest joys of my childhood when i realised he didn't exist christmas was never the same again.

Dr Crayfish

Being able to sleep every night for hours on end. 4 continuous hours is deemed a great success for me now.

WoollyRedHat

I miss the feeling of thinking an adult had all the answers.
The sinking realization hat they don't and then becoming one yourself and realizing you had more questions with no answers than ever before was a helpless one.

Lorelli!

biko wrote: »

How great TV shows were back then, or so I thought.

branie2

The Incredible Hulk

Plopsu

Being a child.

branie2

Noddy, before he became PC

s4uv3

Being off school sick and lying on the couch with your duvet watching caartoons and Mammaayyy feeding you tea and toast all day. Proper buttery toast. Fire lit. Someone to rub your head and clean up your puke.
Now that I have my own daughter I'm the puke-wiper and toast maker

My mam and everything else. On the way back from visiting my granny I would lie down at the back of the car and stare at all the stars. I remember feeling kind of strange and full of thoughts even back then. Playing in the shed with my friends making all sorts of concoctions out of mud and water and whatever else we could find. The book fair that came to the school once a year and the excitement of picking one out.

Going for walks with Mammy and stopping off in the shop to get sweets and then eating them on the way. My barbies. Bed on Christmas Eve with a knot in my stomach at thought of santy. Daddy lifting me out of the car because the weather was awful and I was wearing a special dress for the school play. Dressing up in old clothes belonging to granny and pretending I was a grand lady from another time.

Turning the back garden in to a kind of other land but only in my head. Daddy planting vegetables. My swings. Looking for fairies. Dreaming of how life would be when I grew up. Unquestioning love. My mammy and me singing songs. Daddy getting his summer holidays and being excited about where we would go.

If I could just for a minute have a little bit of that back I'd be so happy.

LirW

She incredible joy of playing the very first Pokemon Nintendo games. For some reason this sticks around. We didn't have much and my mom and dad were ripping their arses apart to get me a Gameboy Colour with the game.

For some reason it is really nice to see my son enjoying the newer versions of the games too.

It might sound stupid but that really makes me happy.

john jameson

The simplicity of it all.

"I always imagined that when I was a kid adults had some sort of inner toolbox full of shiny tools; the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools - friendship, prayer, conscience, honesty - and said 'do the best you can with these, they will have to do' and mostly, against all odds, they do"

Ann Lamott

Crea

My parents not being divorced.

branie2

The Commodore 64 computer

danganabu

Mutant z wrote: »

Beĺieving in santa was among the greatest joys of my childhood when i realised he didn't exist christmas was never the same again.

wow wow there, back it up a bit now, the what??

Lorelli!

branie2 wrote: »

The Commodore 64 computer

Except waiting for it to load!!

Noveight

The lack of paperwork. That was nice.

Mint Sauce

danganabu wrote: »

wow wow there, back it up a bit now, the what??

Next he'll be telling us the Tooth Fairy doesn't exist.