If you could be a child again, would you?

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YABU- I wouldn't
YANBU- in a heartbeat

I would. I miss running to the otherwise of the playground because walking was too slow. or walking along walls because the floor was too boring. Stuff like that. I read quite a lot of books written from a child's perspective. And listen to the hits from when I was about 5-8 whereas my DH listens to music from his teens and early twenties. My parents have said they would go back to being a young adult over a child.

I am in the midst of child rearing but when this is over I suppose I would long for these years and might forget about my own childhood.

No

Nope. My childhood wasn't pleasant, mostly due to persistent/serious bullying at my crap comp. It was only once I became an adult and could take control of my life that I managed to get an education, a decent job, relationships, marriage, children, etc. I'd rather airbrush my childhood out of my memory than risk having to live it again and suffer the same.

Hmmm certain moments yes, especially the feeling of safety and being with my mum, nothing as an adult feels like that. But then, I am too independent. Maybe go to about 17 and do quite a few things differently, now I have the knowledge. But then I wouldnt have my DD and she is more important than anything.

Yes. I loved school. But most of all I’d give anything to see my mum and dad again (especially mum who died 14 years ago)

Yes I’d love to have one more summer holiday or Christmas as a child exactly as it was.

No my childhood was the worst part of my life so far. I wouldn’t even be interested in going back for a week.

I'd quite like to go back to being about 16 and do things differently

To experience the weightlessness of being a child yes, to go back to the childhood I had with the parents I had? Absolutely not.

I'd love to go back for a week and experience a normal childhood with loving parents who weren't so wrapped up in their own shit.

I wouldn't want to experience my childhood again. I may be older, but I'm much happier now than I ever was as a child

Not really, no. Maybe teenage years or young adult.

I’d love to live my life again with the knowledge and experience I have now, but that’s obvious not possible!

I would love the chance to go back. I would work so much harder at school to make my lovely parents proud instead of being the little shitbag that I so often was.

Nope. I had a (generally) happy childhood and I sometimes hanker over the lack of cares and responsibilities but I like being an adult.

I like being in control of my world and being able to set the terms of my life and the authority to decide things, get listened to by other people and get things done as I want them. (Not having a husband also helps with this!)

I wouldn't want any of that taken away.

Oh yes, in a heartbeat! I'd be 8, 9 or 10 again, my mum would be alive and vibrant (she died when I was a teen). The 6 week holiday would be stretching ahead, going to the park with friends with the instruction to be home for tea. Spending hours reading. Being bored often and no one fussing

I would if I could also go back to the exact time when I was a child. I wouldn't want to be a child today, I'd want to go back to the 90's.

I think part of this is seeing my toddler having so much fun and wishing I could experience that again.

My childhood overall wasn't great, moreso my "tween" years. To be 5 or 6 again though would be lovely.

Definitely, I had a wonderful childhood. I was very lucky.

For an afternoon with no parental involvement, where I was just rambling through the parks and the forest and maybe a snack with my grandparents -- I might.

Definitely not a week, but an afternoon in my child body at maybe 7-8, that I might do if I could, even more so if I could share that afternoon with child-version of my spouse and then I could have an afternoon where he grew up. There is sometimes that part where I wish I could have shared those things with him.

No I don't like to live in the past. I had a pretty nice childhood all in all. There were some bad bits but mostly a good healthy childhood. I like my life now though.

Nope.

There are aspects of my childhood I enjoyed and can recollect those feelings, if I really focus on them, but to return and be consumed by the over riding stress and insecurity that filled my days, no thanks.

I'd like to go back to an idyllic variation on my childhood with more ponies and less mediocrity. I'd settle for being a character in a pony book who might have a bit of a trial to get there, but ultimately gets that one awesome pony moment like winning at a big show, beating their arch-enemy. I miss having arch-enemies too. Adulthood is tedious.

To visit for a week? Yes I’d love to do that, I had a lovely childhood. There was also a brief period when I was 17 when I felt absolutely on top of the world with so many choices and opportunities ahead of me, I’d like to feel like that again for a little while.

YABU.

Being a child is horrible. You have no control over your life.

No because mainly life is crap with a few good bits thrown in and having to re live all those years again does not appeal to me.

I’d like too!
What’s the rules? Am I aware it’s a do over? Can I change stuff? Can I bring stuff back?
I’d love a week in the mid 80’s with my lovely dad and mamma still alive and my mum all young.

Yes definitely, I hate adulting. I don't like life admin, I'm sick of cooking every day, I hate parking restrictions, shopping, and sometimes I dislike having to make decisions. I'd like a day off from feeling obligated, weighted down, responsible, and having to be sensible. I'd like to sit in a tree, build a camp, make a fire, box boys ears in and run through the woods at the back of our old house without my knees killing me.