I just got through seeing one of my favorite movies from the 80's, BIG. Seeing that movie makes me think of my childhood. Although my childhood wasn't the greatest, I still have a lot of fond memories of times past.

My favorite part was playing hide-n-seek during hot summer nites with all the kids on my block. If we got to stay out past 10pm we thought we were the coolest. Another thought was spending the night in the backyard telling ghost stories. Yeah life was so easy back then. Time seemed to last forever. Now time seems to go by in a blink of an eye.
We seem to take so much for granted when we're older. I just hate to wake up one day and I'll be 50

What was the best part of your childhood?

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[This message was edited Tue Jun 10 9:06:25 PDT 2003 by IstenSzek]

As a kid growing up in the 70s,I feel that I was lucky to be around during that wonderful time.Life was so much better back then.The music was kickass!

I guess the best part of my childhood was summertime.

Best part was leaving it all behind and grow up.

Rollerskating, going to the cinema, doing graffiti and music.

Anything and everything from age 9 down.

Meeting up with all the guys during the summer holidays and playing football from 9am till 9pm.
I was Gary Lineker, my best freind was Bryan Robson and we'd try to beat the guys from the other side of town at the school football pitch...
We had a host of lads wanting to be and Diego Maradonna - and each and every one was a cheating little bastard...

Telling the small world around me I was gay

When I was nothing but sticky dough.

Honestly,my favorite time was sixth grade.It was just good.

oh, and riding horses I have a relative who has a riding school. that was fun, most of the times.
I also grew up in a great neighborhood, where everybody knew each other. all the kids would go outside to play, and the general mood wasn't as bad as today, with everything that goes on in Israel.

"6:20 Soul Train", "Solid Soul", "Light Of The World", "Incognito", "Level 42" and just being a musician/model.

Radio London, LWR, Horizon Radio (The former hav amalgamated to Solarradio.com) "Casiopea" and admiring Steve Arrington 4 being the only Drummer :I: know 2 make it mainstream at the time after leaving supergroup "Slave"

and as a token, watching Jill Jones in the "1999" video 4 the 1st time.

not 2 4get watching Roger Troutman and Zapp per4m "It Doesn't Really Matter" on TV.

'dre
[This message was edited Tue Dec 3 5:56:22 PST 2002 by DreZone]

Star Wars.

Growing up in a very small plantation was a plus. Everybody knew everybody, and we all got along. Parties were open to all, we had our own little league team, our own band, and most importantly it felt like one big family.

I'm the youngest of 8 children. There was nothing nicer than growing up around so many personalities. Spending time with them while fishing, camping, and at the park.

I didn't appreciate just how nice a big family was until much later of course.

Hmmm.. the best part would have to be when i was younger at the age of around 7 or 8 would be goin out and not having to wake up for work or do anything much but hang out and play.. Watch cartoons in the morning, have someone else (my mom) make me breakfast and just play games all day long and be with my friends and go in the pool. That was the life!~

Having this for a front yard view!



Seeing stuff like this in your backyard

Yamomma, where is that, it is beautiful?

The best part of childhood was developing into the person you are today.

Looking back and counting every blessing good and bad.

But honestly the best part was going to the corner creamery and buying fresh hamburgers 10 for $1.00.

Wanting an everlasting gobstopper, a Wonka bar with a golden ticket and thinking Verucca Salt was a spoiled brat, If only I could have gone instead of her

not working

My independence...i could come and go as i wanted.

Playing sports...nothing like playing basketball or
football with your best buds.

Hanging with my sis and her best friend, Lisa

those late night games with the neighborhood kids...
"kick the can" or "ghost in the graveyard"

Therapy said:

Hint:
Prince "put her in the backseat and drove her" to this place...

when i left home and got my own place at 16

DORA said:

Fascinating

jeevesmgee said:

who the hell appointed you as therapist..//??

sounds like something that a over priced psychoanaylist would say...


common have counter transference with me
I will b the little girl u b my daddy

ALTERofDALI said:

Come here you

Lleena said:

Wonka bars kicked ASS!

I co-sign everything Lleena has posted in this thread. But I wanted to kick Veruca Salt's overbearing, whining ass.

Waking up early Saturday morning like at 7 a.m. to watch the Superfriends and Laff-Olympics while waiting for moms to make pancakes or waffles. Now nothing in the world can make me get up 7 a.m. on a Saturday morning.

Gleefully watching snow fall the night before a school day, and waking up that following morning with ears glued to WTOP talk radio listening for them to say PG County schools were closed so I could go back to sleep... get up around 10 a.m. and have hot cereal for breakfast, go outside and play in the snow, and come inside for some hot oatmeal raisin and chocolate chip cookies my mom had baked.

Going with my folks to the grocery just so I could play the Ms. Pac Man arcade game while they shopped. I could usually get all the way up to the cartoon where the baby was delivered to Ms. and Mr. Pac Man.

Not knowing that I was wearing hand-me-down clothes, not knowing that my pants were too short, not knowing that my "adidas" were missing a stripe, not knowing what other kids were saying about me because I didn't care and it allowed me to develop my own sense of myself independent of what anyone else ever thought.

So by the time I started wearing designer clothes, $100+ tennis shoes, and gold jewelry, my sense of self-worth was never based on those things. By then I had been blessed with a sense of character and personality that could put it all in perspective.

And it's that experience that I'd love to pass on to my offspring.
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[This message was edited Tue Dec 3 22:30:43 PST 2002 by NuPwrSoul]