I had a "kid flashback" earlier today.

I miss those late Friday and Saturday afternoons of the Fall season. Watching "That's So Raven",

"All That", "Kenan & Kal", "Cousin Skeeter" and MadTV while my grandma cooked me a hamburger

and french fries.

I also miss those days of not knowing any better and just doing off the wall things like:

1. Making 4 sandwhiches, and stacking them on top of each other.

2. Jumping off my grandpop shed.

3. Mixing different drinks with each other.

4. Doing splits in Wal-Mart and various stores...wait,I still do that.

I miss when girls weren't that important to me, but now, it's a different story.

What do you miss?

My best kid years, 99-04.

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My dog.

I had a great dog, he was me best companianship. Truly loved him.

the feeling of days dragging... i wish it was like that now

Not having to care.

I miss that so much.

The drugs?

Having summers off.

I need a job where I get a 3 month vacation every year and random days and weeks off for holidays as well.

Let me c....... ....No work/No morgage/no bills/No responsability 4 anything/No csa/No porn/No mobile fones/No internet/No depression/No mood swings/No Alcohol/ The list could b endless being a kid was great and 4 me was stressfree every single day....

I didn't have to worry about bills, I always had money to spend. Even in high school, the only thing I had to pay for was gas in my car, everything else was fair game. I miss that tremendously.

CarrieMpls said:

Having summers off.

I need a job where I get a 3 month vacation every year and random days and weeks off for holidays as well.

I didn't have the best childhood so no.... I don't miss a thing about that. I am making up for that now with my kids.

kewlschool said:

CarrieMpls said:

Having summers off.

I need a job where I get a 3 month vacation every year and random days and weeks off for holidays as well.

Teacher?

Adisa said:

kewlschool said:

Teacher?

Teachers work through many of the days students get off during the year, take work home with them nearly every night and most work through the summer, either more teaching, creating lessons plans, etc. or taking in other work for extra money (as they’re not paid well).

On the surface it doesn’t look that way but teachers work as much if not more than other people I know.

CarrieMpls said:

Adisa said:

Teacher?

Teachers work through many of the days students get off during the year, take work home with them nearly every night and most work through the summer, either more teaching, creating lessons plans, etc. or taking in other work for extra money (as they’re not paid well).

On the surface it doesn’t look that way but teachers work as much if not more than other people I know.

Some do, and some don't. It depends. My wife and many of our friends are teachers, God bless 'em. They can structure their pay in ways to get paid during the summer when school is out as my wife does. Plenty of time for during the summer if they manage their money right.

I can see you as a teacher, a totally bad ass teacher!

I just miss how worry-free being a kid is, in general. Pretty much all you have to do is go to school and play. I remember how when I was a kid I used to sometimes think that being an adult must be so cool and now I'm like, "What the fuck was I thinking?".

1. No Bills

2. Not having to worry about men (or women) lying and using me

3. Great TV Shows

4. Incredible Music

Summer!

No bills, no bills, no bills!

the energy and endless optimism of youth

the feeling that time lasts forever

the sharpness of new experiences

i prefer being an adult though. much prefer it

Being unselfconscious and being able to express my uncontrollable imagination without judgment.

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The toys.

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Being touched up

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Summer/Winter/Spring break, and having weeks on end with nothing to do

Surviving without glasses or contacts.

Oh yeah, and going to a pool or beach without having to worry about what the members of opposite sex will think about my body.

The thread on watersports reminded me of this all of a sudden.

Actually being good at sports.

Doing things like looking up girl's skirts and being heralded as cute!

...being immortal.

I miss the overall innocence of everything. I miss my large crew of male and female friends and how we would just hang out all day and literally all night. No complications or people getting all or or . Just innocent fun and good times.

I mostly miss being able to hang out with friends, when we all lived within blocks to a couple of miles of each other and spending the day riding buses to get to our destinations. It was an adventure to hang out with friends. Also, it was much easier getting together spontaneously back then. Today you have to plan months in advance, and around family life.

I miss eating junk food and not having to consider the consequences. Serious ditto on the bills, tv shows, and music.

I miss my dad and when he took me to the bowling alley with him on Saturdays and he would give me quarters to play video games while he bowled in tournaments. I thought money grew on trees back then even though I had to beg sometimes. I miss my grandparents and going to their house and spending a few days to a week with them and sometimes with my younger cousin until she got on my nerves.

Everything else was bigger.

I'm still a kid, I think.

And might I add being able to live life without so many fancy technical gadgets and not having to do everything online.