If you could go back to your childhood, what's one thing that you would bring back today?

[marvellousmoo]

For me, it would be the TV show 'The Crystal Maze'. I was obsessed with the show. I know they tried to bring it back a few years ago but it wasn't the same. I adored Richard O'Brien and the whole set up of them going from zone to zone trying to win a crystal. They'll never be another game show like it.

Game boy.
My best friend who I lost to cancer when we were 11.

My My Little Ponies.

I feel guilty now for just saying my Nana. I miss so many other people who have died since, including my Dad, I miss him every day, but I was an adult when he died, so I didn't immediately link to my childhood (even though he was a great Dad when I was a child). Then a pp mentioning Callard & Bowser, where my Nana worked.

My nan
Christmas till 13 the magic died then.

There is something that I would turnaround rather than bring back. A particularly sadistic teacher who made my primary years a misery. Brutal teachers were a feature of the 1960's. In my adult incarnation I would stand up to him and defy him to bring me proof of the poem about snow that he swore I'd copied out of a book.

The feeling that time, possibilities and opportunities were endless.

Summer holidays 🤣 I still spend the year putting off projects thinking "oh I'll get to that in the long summer break" before remembering I haven't had one of those in over 10years.
My job is not term time friendly.

My dog.

Not really one thing, but I'd love to return to that feeling of being surrounded by people who know and love you - grandparents, youthful parents, extended family, friends of parents who you called Auntie and Uncle.

Children not being micromanaged by their parents.

All my toys that will have been thrown away by my step dad when he sold the house, the house I grew up in, without telling me.

Biscuit and coconut boosts

My grandma’s apple and blackberry pie.

People not being neurotic nutcases about their children having some reasonable independence. The biggest danger to kids is cars, and there were plenty of them around when I was a kid (with driving fast on urban and suburban roads being much more common, and until my middle childhood, drink driving being allowed) and there is absolutely no more 'stranger danger' than then - probably less in fact, thanks to CCTV and awareness.

I felt the same for just saying my parents, when I also miss my Grandparents. But I was thinking of my parents pottering about around me, while I lounged on the sofa. I really miss those days.

Callard and Bowser replica nougat has been ordered and I will report back. Do you remember the butterscotch too ? I loved the boxes with their drawer, and the wrapped sticks of nougat or butterscotch. Packaging has really gone downhill in the last decade or two. Bendicks Bittermints used to have those sturdy and elegant white and green boxes, now black and green and horrible.

The slowness. Everyone me included seem to be racing around at 100mph. I dont know how we had some much time in the 80s

My gran. She was disabled and had a horrible progressive disease. I lived with her and my parents all my life til she passed when I was 17. I'd do anything for one last hug.

Sundays when I was at primary school. My dad and I would walk to the local garage to get the Sunday papers, dad, mum, gran and I all had the same chocolate bar, but only on the Sunday 😂 Mum would do a roast, i'd play with my dog or read, the grownups would always have a Sunday nap, then we'd have either ham, bread, cheese, pork pie etc for tea or salmon sandwiches. I loved the routine and that feeling of everyone being where they should be, and just huge contentment from such simple things.

Also, Cadbury marble bar!

Nothing, though I had a happy childhood. I didn't lose any family members till I was 20 and nothing traumatic happened. I wouldn't mind bottling that innocent happy feeling I had pre puberty though.

Yes!

My 90s Barbies, My Little Ponies and Polly Pockets.

Me neither. Not for anything.

Life without mobile phones and the Internet, a time when you could get peace and quiet and the people you were with gave you their undivided attention.
Good times!

My mom 😭😭💔 it hurts 😢

The lost family members and friends are a given.

Beyond that, the school holidays where we only came home for meals and bedtime from quite a young age. Lots of make believe play - no daytime TV or electronic gadgets and I have nothing but the fondest memories. Very different to my children's school holidays 3 decades later.

Being able to roller skate. I tried a few years ago in my earlier 30s and I genuinely couldn't even stand up.