to wish I could be a kid again sometimes?

[dunklenoir]

Obviously not right now due to covid and I did have a lovely childhood which I know not everyone did but sometimes I wish I could be a kid again. I love this time of year it takes me right back to childhood and starting back at school after the holidays, halloween, bonfire night and the run up to christmas. My mum didn't work when we were young so was always home and making lovely soups, crumbles and homebaking, making us costumes for halloween or taking us to the library to get new books each week. It was so cosy and as I kid I didn't have to do anything really, I could just enjoy it! I would come home from school, do my homework, watch some childrens tv then dinner and spend the evening drawing, reading or watching tv with my parents sometimes. Then my mum would make us hot chocolate, read to us for a bit (the hobbit was my fave) and then off to bed.

I do try to recreate this for my own children but its tough as I have to work fulltime and even though I hope they feel the cosiness its not the same for me as I'm the one working to make it all happen and sometimes I just wish I could go back there just for a day or so and reexperiance all that!

YANBU OP. I was only thinking last night how much I hate this "adulting" business.

Glad I'm not alone LEELULUMPKIN!

God yes, me too. No real worries or responsibilities. That cosy feeling of being loved and looked after. Everything just being in place and organised for you. Good friends, lots of silly fun, getting truly excited over small things like firework night. No hard decisions.

It would be lovely to have a couple of day's break from adulting.

Urgh no, I barely survived it the first time, I don't want to do it again.

Yanbu. I had an awful headache and sick feeling (pre migraine thing) last week and wished I was a kid so my mum would send me back to bed for the day and call the school to say I wont be in.
If I felt better later I d be on the sofa under a special purple blanket with the cat and Grange Hill on, the gas fire making cosy little sounds.
No I m an adult. I have to go to school. I m a teacher.
Pop 2 solpadeine and get on with it.

God no. As a child you get few choices in how you live your life - I'll take adulthood any day.

@DuesToTheDirt Well of course but I wouldn't want to go back forever just a day here and there when I need a break from being mum/adult!

@Juniperandrage I'm sorry you had an unhappy childhood, I'm well aware this post is very priviledged

Not for me. Childhood is the least enjoyable period of my life.

*was I mean.

@recklessruby that sounds perfect, I get migraines too and would love that as well. A Day off school was pretty delicious back in the day!

@Hollyhocksarenotmessy Yeah it would be blissful, if they every make fully emersive VR this is what I'd be after, not to experiance pop stardom or fame but to be a kid again for a while.

I checked on my kids last night, exhausted after a day at school and sports activity that they love, and they were sleeping hard, in a warm bed with their favourite blanket and cuddly toys and for a moment I wished I could be just like that. End of a fun day and knowing that your parents were there to keep you safe and warm no matter what.

Without doubt. For me, I think what I miss most is the sense of wonder and possibility. It felt like magic might even be real, but even if not, nothing truly awful would ever happen to me or my family.

Now the possibilities and magic are so much reduced in scale and scope, and I worry too much about things over which I have no control. I'm constantly aware that things can and will go wrong for us, and we'll all die. A bit of a downer, really.

@TheyreComingToGetYouBarbara Yes this is so true, even in current circumstances things are good for us at the moment but even in my happiest moments I'm aware that both mine and my husbands parents are getting older and I expect that within 10 years we will begin to lose them and even if not we will see them start to decline, I already see it with my own mum. Then we will be knocking on the door of old age ourselves before too long and thats if nothing worse happens in the meantime! Yes a bit of a downer to be sure!

Yes I do

But I wish I could go back to when my little girl needed me, more.

Yes it was a lovely time.....I had a wonderful childhood right into 6th form too.

No social media, no smart phones, occasional phone call to friend in evening (after 6pm cos it was cheaper).
I'd not change mine for anything.

Gosh I feel quite melancholy now.

YANBU. I sometimes smell the air and I'm whisked back to childhood autumns and warm living room watching Box of Delights (remember that), doing some music practice. Tea cooked for me, not worrying about anything other than doing some homework and making sure I didn't miss some show on the radio.