12 things I miss about being a kid

How good was being a kid? Seriously. It was the bomb.com … and I didn’t even know it was that great when I was living it. I was too busy wishing I was an adult. Not all the time, but boy did I look forward to growing up. Adults seemed to have all the luck. No bedtimes, driving a car, money and freedom. Really, I just wanted to grow up and be able to eat chocolate as I pleased {we had a limit of two squares a week out of a block}.

Chocolate cravings aside, here’s what else I miss about being a kid:

+ handstand competitions in our backyard pool
+ school holidays {days spent in my cossies hanging with the neighbours}
+ watching Flight of the Navigator over and over and over and over again
+ Christmas Day
+ Fire cracker night
+ Cabbage Patch Dolls, Barbie + trips to Plaster Fun House
+ visiting Sizzler when it was actually good
+ learning stuff {I was a dork and loved school}
+ living in the same house as my siblings
+ birthday parties {presents + party food, oh my!}
+ getting excited about scrunchies, printed bike pants + hair-sprayed fringes
+ stress-free existence {no bills, responsibilities + all the sleep one needs!}

Let’s take a trip down memory lane. What do you miss about being a kid? Got something to add to the list?

61 thoughts on “12 things I miss about being a kid”

  1. Oh Chantelle, you make me laugh!
    I was just thinking about the plaster fun house last week. I used to LOVE going there!
    I also miss handstand comps in the pool and wearing cozzies all day every day.
    Great post 🙂
    Jay

  3. I miss it being someone else's responsibility to make sure there's food in the fridge, the gas is off when you go out and that the front door is locked at night. I too spent my whole childhood wishing I was an adult. On a plus note I do own a house with one of my sisters so it stills feels like we are kids sometimes!!

  5. We grew up on a farm in the country, and while I'm glad I'm in the city now, it was a great place to grow up and that's what I miss most about being a kid…”helping” dad with the farmwork, learning to drive in the paddock at twelve, being able to play outside without any worries of “stranger danger” and having the space to play outside! Aaaaaahhhhh….so many good memories.

  7. Oh my Gman.
    I totally use to love Plaster fun house. That was a few awesome birthday parties.
    And firecracker night. I shall be in the Uk this year for Bonfire night. So I will be child like again, drinking hot chocolate and wearing mittens in the cold night air.
    I love your list.

  8. What i really miss are the summer holidays: 7 weeks doing only the things you want!

    On the other hand i miss the light-hearted self-understanding. You don't think of insurances, installments or your private pesnion when being 10 years old. What could be better?

  12. haha, so many similarities – loved also watching movies like pippy long stockings and surprisingly, doing chores for money to go to the shop to buy lollies. 50c would buy LOTS back then!

  13. I miss those hula hoops that come with a scent, strawberry, chocolate or banana and also the handstand competitions in the pool too. They were the days!

  14. all those things are exactly what i miss about being a kid. well, everything except flight of the navigator – what is that? and oh my god, scrunchies, printed bike pants and hair spray fringes?? what the hell were we thinking???
    love your list. x

  16. Having a childhood that you miss and having those happy memories is a blessing to be truly grateful for – some are only too pleased that their childhood is behind them. xx

  17. Flight of the navigator IS the bomb.com!!! Love that movie!!! I miss being able to stay up all night reading a book under the covers with my torch. I miss going ice skating. I miss the babysitter club and choose your own adventure books. I miss swimming in the pool all day long and not even stopping for lunch.

    X Hayley

  18. Hey Chantelle. Im new to your blog, thanks to another blog who posted about your Feb photo a day challenge 🙂 …and must say its very cute! Enjoying reading through some of your posts.
    I absolutely miss being a kid… I miss not having any responsibilities, jobs and LISTS always lurking in the back of your mind. The feeling of being at home when you were a kid, on holidays, at a friends house, wherever and having nothing else to think about…bliss!

  19. Great list and walk down memory lane!
    I miss time on my own, where you can sit and read or listen to music, or draw or write or just sit ON YOUR OWN with no stress about how long you've got left til you have to pick up kids or cook dinner.

  22. I loved summer holidays and that feeling that it was so so so long before we had to go back to school again.Loved spending nearly every weekend with some of my cousins and playing in the street.
    Used to love staying overnight at my Gran's house and sleeping in the same bed as Gran,(even if she did hog the blankets) I just miss my Gran!
    Loved that Mum would make us a birthday cake and we were not allowed to help it being made, like it was a big surprise that we were even having one 🙂
    Used to love playing on our swing set at home with my sisters and even now love swinging on swings in the playground 🙂

  23. I loved organizing a concert (you know, dancing & singing… very young talent time!). Offcourse there was never actually any concert to be seen. We would invite all the neighbors, we would issue tickets and all… It was all about the excitement of planning one, that we were too busy to rehearse.

  24. I miss reading for as long as I want.
    From about 11 or so on until college, I'd wake up in the morning, go make breakfast, take it back to my bed and have breakfast in bed with my book, almost every morning.
    It was wonderful.
    I cou;d also read at lunch, after I finished my school work, or late into the night.
    I was rarely interuppted.
    If my door was closed, I was reading,
    It was a great wy to live.
    Love from,
    Greta

  25. I miss the lack of inhibition.
    I miss the annual screening of Star Wars on TV when we would have massive bowls of popcorn and mum would do my hair in Princess Leia buns.
    I miss hanging out for school holidays when my cousins and I would take turns to sleep at each others houses.
    And I miss pocket money, because back then all I needed could be brought with my weekly $10.
    Oh this is making me feel a wee bit old…..

  26. I miss pocket money, spokey dokies on the bike, having mum bake the birthday cake of your choice each year and it being AWESOME, playing chasings and BAR at school, sleep overs…. lack of responsibility lol

  27. it has to be jumping on the trampoline – the 'tramp' as it was known. our yard is the wrong shape for a really decent sized one for our kids, so we have to wait till our next house.. I will probably annoy the kids by being on there as much as them..

  29. I love this list too. Flight of the Navigator was the best. It was also amazing how school holidays used to seem endless when now, 6 weeks or so passes in a flash. It's funny – I grew up in England but this list is true for there too, minus the sizzler… what is that?!

  30. Ahh! Delightful post. I miss my sisters and making up stories and playing horses in the garden and taking the dog for a walk… and oh yes the reading for hours and hours that people talked about… and really oddly, school uniforms (!!??)

  34. OH MY GOSH, someone that remembers watching Flight of the Navigator!! I LOVED that movie SO MUCH as a kid!

    I miss reading outside all day in the summer under the trees in our backyard. And I miss summer vacation!

  35. Everything .. right from sneaking in spare rooms to read Mandrakes and Phantoms to throwing tantrums for watching Small wonder and Different Strokes and I dream of Jeannie … everything 🙂
    Thank you for this post.. in a few days, my town gears up for a festival fair and I am going to have a ride on the biggest merry-go-round.
    Warmest regards,
    Ruby

  36. I miss going to the swimming pool everyday in the summer; all the neighbor kids getting together for softball or kick the can; walking around anywhere freely without being afraid that someone was going to grab me (our world is not as safe for our children now); and like you, living with my siblings in the same house. I really miss my family. Great post!! I love reminiscing…
    Brenda

  38. oh where to begin, the way the air felt while waiting for the school bus, freedom of roaming around, how everything was fresh and new…life was one big discovery. Come to think of it, it still is, but so often I forget to approach it with that sense of wonder.

  39. absolutely love this. makes me smile. isn't it kind of ironic that while were children, all we wanted was to be grown ups, and now that we're grown ups, we dream about childhood bliss? man life was so easy as a child. the only worries were if I had enough dimes and quarters for the ice cream man or that i had an entire hour of homework (which was coloring) or nobody was coming to my lemonade stand. man those were the days and i can't wait to relive them with my children, someday.

    thanks for your post!

  40. Based on your remembrances, I'd guess we are roughly the same age (32)? I loved watching Flight of the Navigator!!

    It's funny how we never considered something like “no bills” as a benefit when we were kids, but now looking back, that's definitely something I wished I'd appreciated more!

  42. I miss having someone else worry about what's for dinner.

    Even if the dinner wasn't my favorite, it's still better than cooking it, fighting everyone to eat it then cleaning it up every night.

    p.s. Thanks for the Photo A Day Challenge. My friends and I look forward to it every day. 😀

  43. I too, was a dork and loved school, in the school holidays my sisters and I even played being in school. I miss that freedom of running from the time I got up till it was time for bed, oh to have that energy now.

  44. We were discussing this at work today!
    Mostly I’m nostalgic for the freedom I had – long days of school holidays, as much time to bury myself in books as I wanted, the tv shows I adored, the fact that treats were exactly that – treats, not something you could have every day.

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