What do you miss most about your childhood.

Hector Bellend · 14-12-2017 4:16pm

Being able to run without hospitalising myself

retro:electro · 14-12-2017 4:17pm

Having things bought for me and the travelling shop!
Not being a lazy arse like I am now and actually enjoying getting up early, okay it was mainly to watch cartoons but still.

jacksie66 · 14-12-2017 4:18pm

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splinter65 · 14-12-2017 4:19pm

My father.

14-12-2017 4:19pm

anna080 wrote: »

Having things bought for me and the travelling shop!
Not being a lazy arse like I am now and actually enjoying getting up early, okay it was mainly to watch cartoons but still.

The travelling video man!!

danganabu · 14-12-2017 4:24pm

Mint Sauce wrote: »

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

I'm logging off before this gets out of fcukin hand, before I know it there will be no one left only meself and the Easter Bunny, and I never even like that ****er that much.

Boom_Bap · 14-12-2017 4:25pm

Chomp Bars....not the sh*tty ones in the red wrapper you get these days. The ones in the brown wrapper that had some whomp to it.

jmayo · 14-12-2017 4:25pm

What do you miss most about your childhood ?
Dreams and the innocence of it all.

You actually believed that you could win Wimbledon like Borg, you could someday outdo Eamon Coughlan on the track, you could climb Everest, you could be a soldier, a pilot, a fireman, a truck driver all at the same time.

Anything and everything was possible.

mojesius · 14-12-2017 4:27pm

I miss all the free time. Finish school at 3, bit of homework then you're free. I miss all the school holidays, long summer days playing with the other kids on the road until it got dark, trips to the beach on sunny days etc. I don't miss school because it was a mixed bag for me but definitely miss the 'working week' short hours and extensive holidays.

danganabu · 14-12-2017 4:28pm

mojesius wrote: »

I miss all the free time. Finish school at 3, bit of homework then you're free. I miss all the school holidays, long summer days playing with the other kids on the road until it got dark, trips to the beach on sunny days etc. I don't miss school because it was a mixed bag for me but definitely miss the 'working week' short hours and extensive holidays.

Ahhh maybe become a primary school teacher??

retro:electro · 14-12-2017 4:30pm

Postman Pat sweets! Being able to eat my entire body weight in sugar a day and having the energy to run it off.

mojesius · 14-12-2017 4:34pm

danganabu wrote: »

Ahhh maybe become a primary school teacher??

I thought about that, but couldn't put up with 30 kids all day. I know someone who became a primary school teacher for the holidays and short hours, but wasn't actually 'thinking of the children' involved in the job and ended up having a nervous breakdown so probably best if I don't follow in their footsteps.

danganabu · 14-12-2017 4:36pm

mojesius wrote: »

I thought about that, but couldn't put up with 30 kids all day. I know someone who became a primary school teacher for the holidays and short hours, but wasn't actually 'thinking of the children' involved in the job and ended up having a nervous breakdown so probably best if I don't follow in their footsteps.

I also know someone who did it for the fact that at the time Mary I had the highest porportion of female to male students in the country, I'm not sure someone with that rational is someone I want shaping my kids future tbh :eek:

JupiterKid · 14-12-2017 4:41pm

Going around the neighbourhood in my BMX bike with my mates. We played outdoors so much back in the 80s.

Hector Bellend · 14-12-2017 4:45pm

Being abe to drool on breasts without fear of arrest or conviction

corner of hells · 14-12-2017 4:47pm

Matchbox toy soldiers ,1/32 scale.
I had thousands of them.My dog massacred about 20 Afrika Corp one year and loads more vanished into the mists of time.However four Commandos turned up in my mother's back garden three years and they now sit on a shelf at home.

Also climbing, I used climb trees , walls etc , nowadays my bed is the highest climb.

Halloween Jack · 14-12-2017 4:47pm

Optimism...

Lorelli! · 14-12-2017 4:47pm

JupiterKid wrote: »

Going around the neighbourhood in my BMX bike with my mates. We played outdoors so much back in the 80s.

I actually remember cycling my BMX home from the shop that we bought it in. I think i was 6. I was looking back at my mam and thinking "am I going a bit too far ahead? Better slow down"

begbysback · 14-12-2017 4:48pm

Imagination - I watched and smiled the other day as I saw a kid sitting in costa playing with 2 toys, gripped in a world I used to love.

Caravan holidays - just exploring the surroundings in Wicklow or Wexford and meeting the fascinating characters who would linger in the mind for many months afterward.

Summer - warm evenings spent hanging out and feeling free.

Innocence - probably the biggest thing I miss - I grew up and came to know violence and crime all too intimately. I would give anything to believe again that such afflictions only happened on tv.

Knex* · 14-12-2017 4:48pm

Cadbury's chocolate being nice.

Penny sweets.

SuperSean11 · 14-12-2017 4:51pm

Jimmy Savile

14-12-2017 4:53pm

My deceased grandfather. Getting up in the morning and playing all day, just stopping to eat as quickly as possible and back to playing again. Being tucked into bed and feeling so safe and tired and secure in my tiny world. Being absolutely convinced that I was the absolutely very best, funniest, cleverest, and most special little girl in the world, because my dad said so and my dad knows everything. My parents were invincible, all powerful.

I miss sitting on my parents knees and falling asleep, knowing I'd wake up magically in my bed in the morning, and that generally contented feeling of being safe, fed, loved, happy, carefree.

Being thrown in the air and never once doubting you'll be caught. Falling down and knowing there's no injury that Granny can't kiss better, asking my Grandfather questions from some quizbook, trying and failing to find something he didn't know.

major bill · 14-12-2017 5:04pm

People actually talking to one another, communities being communities!!

also as it's xmas I miss the tradition of going to both Grandparents houses on xmas day and all the cousins and uncles/aunts be there, place be jammed, sadly and what was a harsh reality you lose touch with your extended family when the grandparents pass on.

jester77 · 14-12-2017 5:07pm

The never ending summers where it just rained day after day and you would sit in front of the TV until the afternoon waiting for the first programme of the day to start.

Wanderer2010 · 14-12-2017 5:23pm

All the old sweets like Disco crisps and Banshee bones, gone but not forgotten!

Arghus · 14-12-2017 5:31pm

I miss having energy.

andekwarhola · 14-12-2017 5:51pm

w/s/p/c/ wrote: »

People not taking offense to absolutely anything and everything

People not using every single thread on the internet as a launchpad to make a point about people taking offence to absolutely anything and everything.

Ubbquittious · 14-12-2017 5:54pm

Brussels Sprout wrote: »

Daily Mail reader in this thread

Quite possibly but it aint me

Working class heroes · 14-12-2017 6:02pm

I miss the memories. I have virtually none between the age of 8 and 17.
Experienced/witnessed a traumatic event around the age of eight and the professionals reckon I had another one shortly after(still trying to get to the bottom of that one). Probably better off not knowing

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14-12-2017 6:03pm

Working class heroes wrote: »

I miss the memories. I have virtually none between the age of 8 and 17.
Experienced/witnessed a traumatic event around the age of eight and the professionals reckon I had another one shortly after(still trying to get to the bottom of that one). Probably better off not knowing .

Hope you're okay, whatever happens.

Working class heroes · 14-12-2017 6:05pm

Candie wrote: »

Hope you're okay, whatever happens.

Ah it'll be grand. I've made some crackers since!

cantdecide · 14-12-2017 6:05pm

There's little I miss about my childhood tbh. Nothing too terrible and there were good moments here and there but I was very awkward and had a difficult and challenging life at school and at home.

I miss how my mother used to be at Christmas. She would really come to life. I'm very lucky that I have a huge extended family and I always remember them showing me so much kindness growing up.

PeterParker957 · 14-12-2017 6:15pm

My mum.

And not having to be responsible.

MilesMorales1 · 14-12-2017 6:26pm

Despite having a pretty **** childhood, I was the master of making even a small amount of money go a long way. I could go into sainsburys or Asda with a pound or two, and get enough tasty food to last me for multiple days. Wasn't healthy food at all, absolute garbage but still.

Oldtree · 15-12-2017 1:42am

Reading the hardy boys books and 2000ad.

Greyfox · 15-12-2017 1:53am

Playing football even though I wasn't very good at it, keep saying I'm going to try get fit n get back to 5 a side.. never going to happen thou

lukegriffen · 15-12-2017 2:07am

There was always something to look forward to, always something worth collecting (stamps, football stickers, whatever..), getting to know the girls in the neighbourhood.... Having said all that, i hated being told what to do, so life really began when i started a job & became independent

NIMAN · 15-12-2017 2:14am

The lack of aches and pains.
I'm a bloody wreck now.

Noo · 15-12-2017 4:47am

When knees were just knees....i now refer to them my old bad knee (lefty) and new bad knee (righty).

Wheeliebin30 · 15-12-2017 6:52am

Running down hills while your legs are going too fast for your body.

wakka12 · 15-12-2017 9:21am

Dial Hard wrote: »

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

I loved that! Used to pretend to fall asleep just before we got home so Id get carried to my room

Pac1Man · 15-12-2017 9:53am

I remember those impromptu football matches we used to have in the local field. Did a quick sweep to remove any glass, set up goals made of whatever shiny things were lying around and away we went. There could have been about 30 people playing by the end!

We played long into the evening, until about 9 or 10 when we had to stop because we couldn't see the ball anymore.

They were great days thinking back. Didn't appreciate it fully back then of course.

Chrongen · 15-12-2017 3:33pm

Appreciating things that were rare, unusual or not commonplace like a glass of lemonade, ice cream for dessert, snow, etc. Now they are just taken for granted.

Also in my estate there was a black woman. She was a nurse and she was gorgeous like Diana Ross. Everyone loved her, especially the men of the estate. She had no problem getting her car fixed or a gutter cleared by the neighbourhood dads. So she was a rarity as well and very much appreciated.

Also playing football in the green until 10pm. When I was small I had a football and we'd all have a match. If I was called in because I was younger and the older lads who could stay out later I would let them hold onto the ball to continue the match. Next morning when I would wake up the ball would be in the front garden or sitting by itself in the middle of the empty green. Nobody ever nicked it.

Cee-Jay-Cee · 15-12-2017 3:42pm

Picking one of the 6 TV channels and watching a programme rather than spending 20min flcikin through the listings on sky only to have missed half of what you then decide to watch and have to go and see if there is a +1 channel and then setting a reminder for it and then having to go back to the start again to find something else to watch for the next 45 minutes but end up picking something that lasts 1.5hrs and so overlapping the other programme you wanted to watch so you go back through the listings again to find the other programme and set it to record instead of just a reminder and as your scrolling through the pages you spot something else starting at the same time so you set it to record also and then revert to the programme your watching only for a message to pop up 45 minutes later telling you that your recordings are going to clash and then you have to decide either to cancel one of them or forget about the programme your watching and just watch one of the original programmes you set to record so that's what you do only to find out its a repeat and you've seen it before but now have missed 10 minutes of the other show and decide fúck this and go away off and do something else instead.

Lorelli! · 15-12-2017 4:19pm

Pac1Man wrote: »

I remember those impromptu football matches we used to have in the local field. Did a quick sweep to remove any glass, set up goals made of whatever shiny things were lying around and away we went. There could have been about 30 people playing by the end!

We played long into the evening, until about 9 or 10 when we had to stop because we couldn't see the ball anymore.

They were great days thinking back. Didn't appreciate it fully back then of course.

My brother still tells me about legendary goals he got in those kind of football games and when he tells it, its almost like a running commentary

tara73 · 15-12-2017 4:28pm

the nice summers and walking barefoot, all the animals around me on our farm and my brother.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 15-12-2017 4:32pm

Wrestling on the trampoline.

Powerbombing my brother, piledriving my brother, chokeslamming my brother, DDT'ing my brother, German suplexing my brother, scoop slaming my brother, applying a bostoncrab to my brother

Romantic Rose · 15-12-2017 4:34pm

That every day felt like a sunny day.

I miss my Great Aunt and my Mum. They both made our childhood so idyllic. They were both like mother hens looking after their brood. So soft and calm with us.

I miss roaming the fields with not a care in the world. Every day was an adventure.

If I could just relive one day of summer from my childhood. I didn't know how good I had it.

15-12-2017 5:12pm

Being able to feel happy, excited, pleasure and nice wholesome explainable sadness, free from intrusive thoughts, apathy and harder-to-explain numbness. Not having yet thought so deeply about everything that nothing provides you with wonder anymore. Your future not yet having happened so you can lie in bed at night wondering about it and feel safe thinking there is a big block of time separating you from then. The internet not yet being big and social media and smartphones not being a thing yet - I am nostalgic for before they existed, for many reasons. Lack of awareness of the existence of social status hierarchies, hierarchies of attractiveness etc. Daydreaming about innocent romantic stuff to do with girls and not considering yourself to be less in the running than other lads who are in fact more attractive to all the girls. Just cycling through the countryside on a spring day, the cold air on your face, daydreaming about stuff. Being the same height or taller than my peers and not having acne yet. Not yet having accumulated regrets, embarrassments etc. The excitement at the thought of going through milestones - starting secondary school, first disco, first kiss, the debs, driving, first job etc... i could go on and on.

DanMurphy · 15-12-2017 6:44pm

As a child of the 50s I feel sad for the children of today.
They'll never know how to make their own toys, to climb a tree to the very top and carve their name in the bark with a cheap pen-knife bought at the annual Fair.
They'll never milk a cow by hand, or do the daily run to the Creamery and feed the calves with the skim milk afterwards.
They'll never run through the fields chasing a baby rabbit (with no hope of catching it) just for the fun of the chase!
Never be sent to the Village shop, three or more miles off,
on foot.
Few, if any children, are allowed catch minnows in a stream and bring them home in a jam jar.
Never spend hours searching for a lost ball in a roadside ditch, to experience the sheer joy at finding it, or discovering a better one, lost by their elders years before!
Never spend their Sunday after Mass hours sitting on a wall watching cars pass by on their way to a big match in the City, and shouting out what County each car was from by the reg number.
No child nowadays (I'm sure) are allowed the freedom to 'explore' the woods ' hunting for wild bears' / Apache Indians / Robin Hoods Merrie men, Roman Centurions, etc, while armed with a home-made bow and arrows and wooden sword!
And I'm sure, they'll never have Pigs Head, cabbage & spuds for Sunday dinner...every Sunday!

Ahh, my childhood.
God, how I miss it.

What do you miss most about your childhood.

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