Remember the simple life?

[OstrOsized]

Remember being a little kid? Like I'd say between 3 and 10, when life was so simple and the world was your playground? You could just go outside all day and have fun with your imagination. When you didn't have to think at all about things like money, or a girlfriend/boyfriend, or that school final or essay. When you had a bedtime of 8:00, and would beg for 9:00 or 9:30 on weekends. When you would sometimes be read a bedtime story. When you would wake up and your hair would be standing straight up from bed hair, but you didn't care and just wanted to go play, but your mom would still bug you about it. When you had that nightlight cause you were scared of the dark. When you thought your mom and dad were the coolest people ever. When you could watch a movie 400 times and still enjoy it. When Santa Claus was real and you wanted to be a good kid to get those presents.

The list goes on...

What are some of the things you remember from the simple life of childhood?

[themnax]

i remember being that age. i remember living that age. much too clearly to pretend that life was ever simpler or easier at any age then at any other. only the challanges and frustrations chainging in charicter from one 'age' to another.

as they continue to do for all of us of all ages.

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[hippychickmommy]

Oh yes, I absolutely remember that. Now I see my own children doing the same thing. Brings back even more memories.

[shaina]

i remember just playing for hours and not caring those were the days

[Eugene]

I remember constantly trying to figure out everything, and being frustrated because people would avoid my questions...
Life was never simple, your problems just change...

[Skip]

Yeah, I really wonder when ppl characterize childhood as some "idyllic" time. Yes, we were free of all those adult worries that dominate our lives now (work, taxes, health, etc.)

But for most ppl, childhood came with another set of problems.

Don't you remember how powerless you felt?

Remember feeling adult in many ways, but never being treated like one?

Remember wanting freedom, but having to tag along with parents to someplace you loathed?

Remember being sick (and possibly close to death), without even knowing what was going on?

Remember having to eat food you despised? For me it was meats.

Remember having to go to bed when you weren't tired, but wired (on junk food no doubt)?

Remember older siblings who had it better than you?

Remember younger siblings who got all the attention and love & you felt neglected?

Remember your more affluent friends getting to go places and do things and get presents that you could only dream about?

Remember feeling hungry, blood sugar low, headache setting in, starting to cry, and being scolded instead of being fed? (up to age 6 or so)

Remember school? Boy I could do a whole thread on how much fun that was for some of us...

Remember schoolyard fights? Bullies? Teachers who had it in for you? Being out of the "clique"? Boring teachers? Stupid teachers? Stupid classmates, causing the whole class to slow down?

Being stuck in school when spring sprung and nature was a'calling ya to come out and play?

Remember being sexually naive and frustrated, yet more than ready to get it on with anyone? (12+) (I guess some ppl are still like that as adults!)

I could go on and on...

Wasn't it all just "idyllic"?

[fylthevoyd]

Life was never simple....it was just as kids we were not included in the decision making discussions as kids are today. We were protected from the harshness of the world by our parents....so it all seemed like all was well.Then once we became the ward of the state,so to speak,when we started school...then our perception of the world started to be formulated and we wee slowly indoctrinated into the ways of the world.Simpler no,protected yes...smoke screened would be a truer statement.

How could life be simpler...when you are in the 1st or 2nd grade going through daily "duck and cover" drills...because the threat of the russians nuking us...as the Bay of Pigs incident unfolded before our young eyes....how was it simpler...when our young minds had to process the fact that we were sent home from school because some one had shot and killed the president....at an age when politics was an unknown aspect to life....yet we lived in all the turmoil with out explainations...in the name of protecting us from the "mean ole' cruel world"...they were simple times only by ommission of the truth and facts of reality from our parents who were looking out for our well being ...or so they thought.
I wouldn't call them simpler times....they were safer times...cuz we were free of the every day worries of surviving...as kids we were just along for the ride basically.

[cerridwen]

I sooo miss that... you're only priority was dominance over the school yard... recess and saturdays playing marbles and jump rope... now when ya do it people just look at you funny ;)

[mynameisjake07]

I don't think its the age that matters but how our culture makes us change as age gets older.

[prismatism]

remember when your mind was free?

[erzebet1961]

God..I remember playing till it was way after dark outdoors , we lived in the desert and the wind in the power lines would make this low sort of howl and sometimes the coyotes would start to answer back. we would sit up in the hayloft with the windows open and listen to them sing!!!

[Raving Sultan]

I didnt think childhood was all that great. summer vacation was cool and you got to be lazy and played video games alot. I mostly remember wishing I was grown up.

[Flight From Ashiya]

I never liked childhood as such.Bedtime was 9 o'clock but adults were allowed to 'stay up late to talk & watch t.v.' http://www.hipforums.com/forums/images/smilies/mad.gif

[mynameisjake07]

Do you guys remember playing flash light tag with everybody in the neighborhood?, man that was back in da day