Another thought following on from favourite films. How about what happy memories do you have of childhood. Could be a place, activity, toy, friend, you decide. Personally I loved the hours spent rollerskating - for those oldies like me the skates were the old fashioned metal ones that we adjusted with a spanner and had leather straps - those were the days!
I guess my happiest memories were playing with my brother and sisters. We would get industrial strength plastic bags and slide down what we called the sinners. Which was a high gravel bank at the side of the railway line. I think the name sinners was derived from cinders which is what was originally banking the railways (coal) we would go collecting tadpoles at a nearby beck. We would climb trees. We would build huge nests out of grass cuttings and pretend to be birds. We would collect rose petals and boil them in water to make our own "perfume" lol. We often wrote scripts for our own plays and perform them for our neighbours, with home made refreshments for the interval. I have some good memories from my childhood
It's gotta be our camping holidays...awesome.....loved everything about it..went to unreal places in Australia...especially the Blue Mountains and the many beach areas...and the different states..we would go every long weekend and 6 weeks a year on our annual holidays...beautiful memories....hate it now, I wouldn't camp for all the tea in a china...literally..wpWhen I married, that was all replaced with nice motels and hotels .....my children stay in 5 star luxury...well so do we now. and why not....gotta start my older age memories...:-) xxx
I have happy childhood memories where I lived there was a field and trees in front of our house we played outside everyday we could... Cannon kerbie roller skating skipping rounders cricket climbing trees and swinging on a rope on a tree..it was brilliant playing on so many games!! life before computers and mobile phones lol !!
Yep with you on the rose petal perfume and tadpoles. Gosh transporting me back a good few years.
Loved camping but got very upset when everyone laughed at me when I was about 9 years old as I tried to cook a sausage over the open fire, forgetting that the sausage was on a plastic fork!
Today's kids haven't a clue what they are missing. I doubt whether many would have the imagination to entertain themselves all day as we did in the glorious outdoors. We didn't need expensive toys and gadgets did we!
That's so right! also i could go to the park on a weekend with my older brother without feeling afraid of being approached by strangers!
Spent the holidays out on bikes with sandwiches in paper bags and a bottle of pop.
Just wondering - do you think there are more suspect strangers around these days or are parents way too protective. I know kids are not allowed to learn by risk taking - we never had full body armour to ride a scooter. I know there was little in the way of traffic but even so we played out and came home at teatime dirty, hungry and tired with the odd bump and bruise but that was about it. So many kids these days are taken everywhere by car, haven't a clue how to cross the road and have all activities planned and supervised. Think we were the lucky generation!
My happy memeories of my childhood were travelling to London from Wolverhampton every holiday and spending with my cousins. We used to spend time with one cousin for a week then move onto the next cousin and so on. Family get togethers used to be so much fun. Nowadays famiies are too busy for one another. They were the good old days when there was no worry of having fun. x
Simple pleasures. Families just don't seem to matter any more. We had terrific family get togethers every Sunday in the summer. We would meet at the local park and play cricket and rounders then all collapse in a heap and have a picnic. Then it was home for a bath and then drop into a nice cosy bed absolutely worn out. Happy days
It's a sad thing to say but if my kids were young now I think I would be even more protective and wary of people...there was an experiment shown on TV recently where a man in his twenties with a small dog asked the parents permission to see if their young children would be tempted to go off with him even though they had been warned about talking to strangers a majority of them walked off with him.. I was so shocked by this!!
Do you think this may have been because children nowadays are not street wise. I certainly would never have gone with anyone. Stranger danger is probably not foremost in some parents' mind as they never leave their children unsupervised. Although parents may tell them once it needs reinforcing. I remember in a carpark my father was talking to the man parked next to us. My son aged 4 said "Grandad do you know that man" grandad said "no" the response from my son was "well you shouldn't be talking to him then should you" Out of the mouth of babes!I think perhaps because of social media etc we are more aware of when a child is missing or has been approached by someone. I would like to think the world is still a fairly safe place for our young people.
Ha ha ha..lvery funny...a great memory Maggers...:-)
Sooo agree there..:-) xxxx
Soo true...no worry about having healthy fun...:-) xxx
I think that there were probably the same percentage of "bad people" back then as there are now. It just seems like more now as the population has grown so has the number of "bad people", but percentage wise it has stayed the same. Also it will seem like the problem is worse as media has increased so that you hear more bad news more easily and more quickly. I agree that kids now do not seem to know how to entertain themselves. They seem to get bored so easily and part of that I think is that they have too much choice so they aren't satisfied so easily. When I was a kid my choices were limited to outside and whatever I could find to amuse myself. Nowadays kids expect you to give them their entertainment. They don't know how to look for themselves. I don't think that it is that kids have less imagination so much as it is that kids don't know how to tap into it. We had to use our own resources as kids because there was no one else to do it for us. There was no technology as such to entertain us. I also agree that because we were outside more we became more street wise and more independent. We are more social too. I worry that kids now are going to grow up being unable to communicate verbally with each other. You know, all they seem to do now is text or type to each other. They are losing the firm of speech.
Hit the nail firmly on the head there! I can't believe children are starting school still in nappies, unable to sit at a table to eat and have no idea what a knife and fork are for. My friend teaches reception age children and she spends most of the time potty training and teaching them how to speak and sit still. She has been teaching for many years and says it is just getting worse.
Totally agree with you. I have two boys ages 17 yrs and 10 yrs, when it comes to entertaining, I have to remind them it's NOT about game consoles everytime they want to play. So I insist they have time outside in the garden, they play football and have a jump around on the trampoline. Once they are out they have a fun time. I will then insist on some old fashioned board games. Once they get on with it they thoroughly enjoy it. I try to balance it out, but the generation of kids are such couch potatoes and can't think with their own minds. Instructions have to be given for each task. I reward my boys if they do something without be asked when doing house chores. I do tell them take out the materialistic things out of your life once in a while and to appreciate the basics.
I would love to have a go on a trampoline but even if I managed to get on one I would never get off.
We buy a new board game every Christmas and have lots of fun Christmas evening trying to understand the rules and the inevitable cheating that goes on amongst the laughter. It is funny that my children who have now left home buy a new game every year so the tradition continues. Some of the answers given in Junior Trivial Pursuit have gone down in family history as all time howlers!