Childhood Stuff

I am curious to find out about childhood in different parts of the world.

What games you played? What objects you remember from your childhood? What soda did you drink, what type of food/sweets did you eat? What did you watch on tv? What toys were the vogue? Any and all images that make you recall moments in childhood..post them here.

Photos, memories..anything.

What do you remember from your childhood?

Posted by Huldra
Aren't you from Romania? Russian childhood is similar to that, and I remember mine well.

Do tell.

Just found this site with photos of objects and stuff I forgot and I'm very nostalgic right now.

I think we drank the same beverages. Not sure about the food.

Nz kids... Building forts, riding bikes, going camping /beach /fishing...
Games were go home stay home

Oops!
Bull rush, gutterboard, trampolining
Card games like euchre, Sega mega drive, marbles, elastics

Loved marvels thundercats!

Kiwi diet was meat and 3 vege! Dessert was ice cream and jelly. And of course - fish and chips!!! I first had Mexican food at about 12! But I loved push pops... And fruju's!!!

I'll have to do a lot of googling for the stuff you folks mentioned here 😄

I just wonder how many years we were behind the western world.

Posted by Huldra
Will do in the morning. It's past midnight on east coast.

Can't wait to! Take all your time 😄. I'll probably invade this topic with pics.

I hope enfant joins us too.

NO JUDGMENT ON CHILDHOOD STUFF!

Posted by Prince_Pisces
Well I was very fond of those Spice Girls lollipops. I was probably subconsciously training myself for when I got older LOL!

lmao

how was fashion? what did you wear?

Man, I know someone who got rid of all his toys at like 5. He just decided he was done with all of it and ditched everything. No more toys or any sort of childhood stuff.

...I thought it was really strange, tbh. Who decides that they just don't want to bother with anything childhood at 5??

He never got into any hobbies, didn't have many interests. Just played baseball growing up. Seemed like a really odd way to grow up.

Personally, I played with Barbies and Ninja Turtles (my mom didn't care about gender stereotypes with toys). I had Cabbage Patch dolls when I was younger.

Power Rangers on TV, Tiny Toons, Saturday morning cartoons, after school cartoons, etc.

Going outside to play, which was all the time.

Kick ball, baseball, any sport anyone was playing. Riding bikes. Playing in the dirt. There was a small hill side in my backyard that was all dirt and my brother and I carved a small town of sorts and incorporated our Matcbox cars with it.

Posted by b1tchcrafts
Hey arnold is wonderful your ignorant fuck

hey arnold is a classic & for a cartoon those who dont know can get a feel of new york before all this gentrification shit

Back in the dark ages of the 1970's, we played outside - tag, hide and seek, cops and robbers, neighborhood sports. We went fishing. We swam in a lake not a pool, pools were for sissy kids.

We played outside with the neighborhood kids running all over the neighborhood. Mom didn't know where were and as long as we were home by the time the street lights came on, she was fine with that. Kids were safe back then.

And if you messed up, didn't matter who you were, some adult would yank you up and beat your ass. Then, she'd call your mom and dad would beat your ass when he got home. You knew better than to mess up.

We only had cartoons on Saturday morning - Super Friends, Wacky Racers, Loony Toons, Scooby Doo and Kong Fong Fooey.

We stayed up late on Saturday night to watch this fabulous new show called Saturday Night Live.
We stayed up and watched Solid Gold and pretended to be Solid Gold Dancers.

Weeknights we watched Charlies Angels, Fantasy Island, the Love Boat, Marcus Welby, MD.

We played with Big Wheels, Stretch Armstrong, Barbie and all her accessories, little army men, Betsy Wetsy doll, lemon twists, Games were Twister, Hungry Hungry Hippos, Battleship, Life, Rock 'Em Sock 'Em with robots.

Drank RC cola, tab cola, Dr. Pepper. Popular candy was Pop Rocks, those little wax bottles filled with liquid, candy cigarettes.

We had box tape recorders and would record ourselves making weird noises. Then run around trying to tape adults having a conversation, which would get your ass beat, but it was worth it because it was fun trying.

Ahhhh....thanks for the nostalgia!!!

Oh, fashion!

Bell bottom jeans that covered up your whole foot, hip huggers, halter tops, tube tops, platform shoes, t-shirts with rainbows on them and anything silk screened. In 1980 or 81 'Who Shot JR?' was a popular shirt. Astrology was in and we'd wear shirts with our sign on it. Hairstyles were the Farrah Fawcett haircut or the Dorothy Hamill haircut.

Posted by AirMan
^^having growing up in texas we did the same exact things growing up. watched saturday morning cartoons, fishing and hunting with grandpa. oh my GAWD i miss dem early texas days.

Life was GOOD back then!

Having a television was a luxury ... so, it was used only for family gatherings (really young). We would all sit around and watch "Bonanza", "The Ed Sullivan Show", and if we were lucky, "The Wonderful World of Walt Disney".

Then other people got televisions, so it became less important.

turn-tables and albums were the most important to own, and use
rotary telephones (my grandparents had to call a switchboard to get a line)
percolating coffee was the only choice, and delicious, I might add
the original Coca-Cola, which is nothing you get today
if you couldn't sleep, or had nightmares - a shot of whiskey was the normal
you play outside, if you don't have a toy, then you play with sticks
street lights coming on was the warning that it's time to go home
children could walk the streets without fear of being molested
twister, Barbie dolls and balls were the toys. but, the most important was a stick of chalk.

I started babysitting fulltime at 5 years old for two kids - infant and 25 yo, and was their sitter until I started 1st grade at 7, then I became the part-time sitter when I got home from school. so, playing wasn't in my agenda most of the time.

Except during the summer .... we owned 30 acres on a lake and spent our entire summers there until I was 18 (I'm the baby). When I grew up, the property was sold. My brother took the boat and all equipment.

Once I got older, around 9 or 10, I no longer babysat for those kids because they were old enough to take care of themselves. I spent my spare time at nursing homes and hospitals, sitting with the elderly and the sick.

Back then, children were taught and encouraged to grow up. Opposite of today, where you'll find on the Cap board, people proclaiming that you're still a child until 25. That was unheard of. A girl was woman by 16 years old, and could take on a whole household.

I was pregnant by 13 years old, and in a long term relationship with my first husband. He was my boyfriend then, and I aborted. Later I married him.

I finished school early, by having a full time job. If you had a full time job, then I could take only the academic classes and skip grades. By 16 yo, I was supporting myself. My boyfriend (future husband) was also out of school and working full time by 16.

So, my childhood stopped when I grew up - around 5 years old.

infant and 25 yo



lol ^^^



infant and 2 yo

Posted by b1tchcrafts
Gameboys
sailor moon
cool aid coolers
pokemon.
dragon ball z
pokemon cards
wild thornberries
yuigioh cards
manhunt
larping
hey arnold
football
caprisuns
gang affiliation
heely's
yu yu hakusho

+1 on 95% of all that.
We must come from the same time era 🙂

I still enjoy doing all that stuff lmao

And no one blinked an eye at a 5 year old babysitting.

Times were different then. My dad was driving a truck full time across six state lines at the age of 17. Kids really did grow up fast then.

Posted by truecap
And no one blinked an eye at a 5 year old babysitting.

Times were different then. My dad was driving a truck full time across six state lines at the age of 17. Kids really did grow up fast then.

And truth be told, the world was probably better because of that.

My dad said he didn't get much of a childhood, so he wanted to make sure I got one.

I did everything that Elle said (except for the computer stuff).

I look at it like this.

Life has always been the same.

There have always been killers rapists, and crazy insane individuals.

The only difference between then and now is now we have TV and media exposing all the crazy you didn't have the option to see back then.

I've watched lots of old TV shows/movies and also talked to many older wiser people. It was still pretty bad back then. You were drafting your babies to war and still calling blacks racist names on TV.

Posted by Soul
I look at it like this.

Life has always been the same.

There have always been killers rapists, and crazy insane individuals.

The only difference between then and now is now we have TV and media exposing all the crazy you didn't have the option to see back then.

I've watched lots of old TV shows/movies and also talked to many older wiser people. It was still pretty bad back then. You were drafting your babies to war and still calling blacks racist names on TV.

In general, back then, people were assumed trustworthy until they proved not to be. And everyone in town knew who the town drunk was, the town molester, the town whore...the community was much more informed. Everyone knew everyone's business. Strangers were noticed and people were curious about them.

Roller skates were my shoes for like ever! Hula hoops for hours, I even had a baton i'd through up and twirl in the air, so I could be good enough to pretend I was in a parade. Back yard gymnastics, how many kart wheels can you do in a row?

We played tag, best on skates (although that's why I have a big ass scare on my arm)

We'd ride! My first bike had a banana seat and basket. But those were our adventures.

Saved up aluminum cans to get a Nintendo, Zelda was my game!

slot cars, ping pong (oh how I loved ping pong)

Basket ball, some serious tetherball matches, playing catch in the front yard for hours (one of my favorite things idk why)! Pool games, Marco! Polo!

Dad took us fishing and hunting and off roading, sure didn't let not having son's hold him back. We'd shoot ground squirrels so the cattle wouldn't step in their holes and break their ankles.

I was real proud of my teddy ruxpin, I'd drag pound puppies behind me with yarn leash. I had cabbage patch kids and barbies, Lincoln logs and Lego's. it Seems dumb but my favorite story my dad would read us was the boy who cried wolf, (haha he lied then he died!)

I crocheted and sewed a lot with the grandma's. Spent a lot of time drawing, we used to love making crap out of kitchen clay.

My best friends in school were another Taurus and a Cap, we had this routine on the parallel bars that we'd do signing Stop in the name of love. lol so dumb

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Posted by Soul
I look at it like this.

Life has always been the same.

There have always been killers rapists, and crazy insane individuals.

The only difference between then and now is now we have TV and media exposing all the crazy you didn't have the option to see back then.

I've watched lots of old TV shows/movies and also talked to many older wiser people. It was still pretty bad back then. You were drafting your babies to war and still calling blacks racist names on TV.

In general, back then, people were assumed trustworthy until they proved not to be. And everyone in town knew who the town drunk was, the town molester, the town whore...the community was much more informed. Everyone knew everyone's business. Strangers were noticed and people were curious about them.

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Of course, I grew up in a small town. You're right though, the media didn't cover those things so parents didn't realize how much of the bad stuff was going on.

And NO ONE wore a helmet, or elbow/knee pads or a seat belt. We'd ride in the back of a pickup going 60 mph down the highway, crawl all over the car playing when we went somewhere, sleep in the back dashboard.

It's a wonder so many of us survived! lol!

I want to live in the time of P-Angel's childhood. Or at least raise my children then. The current world disgusts me and gets me down if I think about it too much. We are headed to an ugly place...

Posted by truecap
And NO ONE wore a helmet, or elbow/knee pads or a seat belt. We'd ride in the back of a pickup going 60 mph down the highway, crawl all over the car playing when we went somewhere, sleep in the back dashboard.

It's a wonder so many of us survived! lol!

There was no fucking way I was wearing a helmet. I mean they were just starting to become a thing, and you just felt bad for the kids with the parents that made them. I mean you felt bad for them, but you didn't play with them.

Posted by Astrobyn

Posted by truecap
And NO ONE wore a helmet, or elbow/knee pads or a seat belt. We'd ride in the back of a pickup going 60 mph down the highway, crawl all over the car playing when we went somewhere, sleep in the back dashboard.

It's a wonder so many of us survived! lol!

There was no fucking way I was wearing a helmet. I mean they were just starting to become a thing, and you just felt bad for the kids with the parents that made them. I mean you felt bad for them, but you didn't play with them.

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Yep. The 'dorks' of the neighborhood. And the kids who's mom made them zip up their coats and wear hats. lol!

I had a friend like that and as soon as mom got out of sight, those things came off!

I was too young for that one, but I remember how big a deal my dad made out of us watching "I know my first name is Steven."

But still, not getting abducted was kinda your own responsibility.

Started driving a truck when I was 17.
As far as childhood goes, there's not much to remember.

Posted by deathnirvana

Posted by Soul
I look at it like this.

Life has always been the same.

There have always been killers rapists, and crazy insane individuals.

The only difference between then and now is now we have TV and media exposing all the crazy you didn't have the option to see back then.

I've watched lots of old TV shows/movies and also talked to many older wiser people. It was still pretty bad back then. You were drafting your babies to war and still calling blacks racist names on TV.

The wheels of time turn, but all is still the same.

Illusion of change. Illusion of the nature of time.

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History is always repeating itself.

Makes you wonder why life is the way it is. I sometimes wonder if this is truly Hell. Just a trial to see how strong your spirit is. In return for living life we gain death, the opportunity for true peace and history finally stops. But what becomes of the consciousness we are receiving from this life?

Here we are, together trapped in reality. Always seeing and hearing and feeling. Forced to absorb other living things to keep our own alive. Why are we forced to see when everything is chaotic? Why are we forced to hear when everything is a lie? Why are we forced to feel when every emotion is just as selfish as I?

Because our spirits are evil, and we were given this one chance of life to gain redemption without the help of any entity.

Posted by Prince_Pisces
Well I was very fond of those Spice Girls lollipops. I was probably subconsciously training myself for when I got older LOL!

lmfaoo

Posted by Astrobyn
I was too young for that one, but I remember how big a deal my dad made out of us watching "I know my first name is Steven."

But still, not getting abducted was kinda your own responsibility.

And remember the one about the little girl who was lured into child pornography? My mom made me watch that.

I was the head of a small gang, specialized in tormenting the villagers.
Played with chicken, piglets and rabbits.
Loved books, including art and puzzles.
Loved being in the nature, picking mushrooms, swimming in the river.

I loved exploring since I was little, meaning that I walked for miles on my own, to find interesting plants, architecture and children, while mum thought I was in the backyard.

When my sister was born, I started playing with dolls. I gave each doll a different personality, and was the imaginary director of a daily soap, with my sis as the sole spectator. I gave up when I was 12, because mum threw away the fav doll, Rebecca. The soap did not survive her departure.

There was very little to entertain us. Tv watching was limited to a 15 min cartoon per day, Telecinemateca on Wednesdays (usually one cowboy movie) and Teleenciclopedia on Saturdays (like Horizon but shorter). Not all kids had TV. Therefore, we learned to entertain ourselves and become entertainers.

When I was really younger I spent a lot of time alone. Crawling under things and drawing on the furniture and wall in hidden places. Dragged my baby blanket everywhere (still the only pink thing I've owned and will own). It became my cape, my "stunningly beautiful" ball gown, my crown, my "hair" (channeling my inner Repunzel).

I popped off the heads of every doll I was gifted, but would guard my Curious George monkey (

Posted by AirMan
hahaha none of you guys don't know the meaning of the phrase, child's play. obviously. which now REALLY out to got me thinking yall ain't real. we played REAL children's games when i was coming up. games yall wouldn't know nothing about before yall time. here's a list of them for all you modern younguns...

hide'n seek
freeze tag
kick the can
tire rolling
pin tail on donkey (paper donkey since we didn't have a real one)
buggy ride
cops 'n' robbers
house

Played hide n seek, "touch" tag and house 😄. I think house was like the JK rite of passage.

Favorite snacks:
Mr. Big
Sour n Cream chips
Sour keys
Orange Crush
Beef pattie and coco bread always with milk chocolate
Fish bits and Chips with all the fixins (gravy, salt pepper, onions and ketchup)

Didn't really play board games unless it was in school and it was for some educational purpose.

*plans to buy sour keys on the way home*

^^^Actually correction. I was forced to learn to play and join the chess team as punishment in grade 6. I didn't know it at the time, but my teacher was a very smart man. One of the best punishments I recieved.

Posted by KVZZMIR11
I feel nauseous every time I remember I used to do this shit.

I wish I never had, and it has given me nightmares at sleep during my adult life.

Why do we do such things?

We derive no pleasure from it.

It is just so strange, like burning ants with a magnifying glass.

Kids are fucked up, they have no empathy for living or dead things.

It's the feeling power over life. You should be able to remember the insects plea for life, that which would be identical to a humans plea for life. If you were to hold a bug beyond its will it will squirm, like all life. Anything living is conscious of its own death, even plants give off different waves when something is in the process of killing it.

Humans have a killer instinct, which is proven by the k9's In our mouth. Animal predators kill for food, humans seem to do it for food or fun. Even when they kill for food they still have fun doing it. They do it because of the adrenaline, which is identical to how a theif feels when they steal something. Only when stealing life it's makes a human feel godly, and like we have great power over other life. Sadly we do.

Posted by truecap
Back in the dark ages of the 1970's, we played outside - tag, hide and seek, cops and robbers, neighborhood sports. We went fishing. We swam in a lake not a pool, pools were for sissy kids.

We played outside with the neighborhood kids running all over the neighborhood. Mom didn't know where were and as long as we were home by the time the street lights came on, she was fine with that. Kids were safe back then.

And if you messed up, didn't matter who you were, some adult would yank you up and beat your ass. Then, she'd call your mom and dad would beat your ass when he got home. You knew better than to mess up.

We only had cartoons on Saturday morning - Super Friends, Wacky Racers, Loony Toons, Scooby Doo and Kong Fong Fooey.

We stayed up late on Saturday night to watch this fabulous new show called Saturday Night Live.
We stayed up and watched Solid Gold and pretended to be Solid Gold Dancers.

Weeknights we watched Charlies Angels, Fantasy Island, the Love Boat, Marcus Welby, MD.

We played with Big Wheels, Stretch Armstrong, Barbie and all her accessories, little army men, Betsy Wetsy doll, lemon twists, Games were Twister, Hungry Hungry Hippos, Battleship, Life, Rock 'Em Sock 'Em with robots.

Drank RC cola, tab cola, Dr. Pepper. Popular candy was Pop Rocks, those little wax bottles filled with liquid, candy cigarettes.

We had box tape recorders and would record ourselves making weird noises. Then run around trying to tape adults having a conversation, which would get your ass beat, but it was worth it because it was fun trying.

Ahhhh....thanks for the nostalgia!!!

yes, Yes YESSSS!

Also Strawberry Shortcake, GI Joe, easy bake ovens, lightbrite, barrel of monkeys and of course Star Wars AT a drive in!!

do you remember the show the Bugaloos? Or how about Sigmund and the sea creatures? Land of the lost, Logans Run, Wonder Woman!!! .. man the good old days!

It's difficult to talk about "childhood" because as I get older I feel my childhood extending, now that I am in my 40s I consider my 20s as childhood.
Anyway, I grew up in the 70s. I remember spending a lot of time outside playing with sticks and rocks and my pets.
Kids games were pretty much the same games kids play today. No toys that I remember of.

People living the moment and were globally happier than today. Families would go out camping or strolling at least once a week.
Where I lived back then TV played only from 4pm to 10.30pm everyday, so not much TV . TV shows I remember watching : the man from atlantis, some early japanese cartoons, thunderbirds, the avengers (my all time favorite show), the muppet show, columbo, billion dollar man.
Best entertainement was the weekly comic magazines: walt disney comics, marvel comics and other local comics. I was a fan of 70s marvel heroes: iron man, spiderman , rom the space knight, silver surfer, etc...
In the 70s Bruce lee was a huge pop icon, every teen had a poster of bruce lee and/or bob marley in their bedroom.

Then the 80s. TV was still lame, shows I remember : Mcgyver, galactica (the original, good version), tons of useless sitcoms, second wave of japanese cartoons: DBZ, hokuto no ken, saint seiya, mysterious cities of gold, Ulysses 31
Star wars was very popular and not yet tainted by the new shit, I loved star wars

I was a computer nerd, although very few people had computers, I didn't actually have one myself most of the time, it was mostly an adult thing at the beginning. You'd spend hours copying code from magazines and the result was crude but amazing because it was the future.

I used to read a lot of sci-fi novels. pure sf was very popular until around the 80s, nothing like today where every book has to be tied to a franchise or a videogame or some shit.
I was fascinated by pen and paper role playing games (dungeons and dragons) but I was a lonely kid and never got to play it, but the concept of simulating worlds and adventures was enthralling and I spent a lot of time studying the mechanisms. I was a real nerd.

It is true that kids became adults A LOT faster in the 70s/80s. 14 y.o. kids seemed to have more mature relationships than the adults of today. Also all teens had to have a "look" , it seems teenagers back then looked a lot more sexualized. More manly for guys and feminine for girls.

Also back in time everybody was a lot more brutal, there was a lot of derision and intolerance against outcasts or people who couldn't hold up their ground, racism and stuff like that, you had to be tough.
Most people I remember would be considered slightly dumb by today's standards. And the average person of today would be considered a sissy by 70s standards.

The 90s were kindof dumb but everybody was well dressed at the beginning of the decade and I don't know why but everybody seemed to have great hair in the late80s/early 90s.

It is really sad how pop music has declined since the high point of the 70s/80s,for me pop music died around 1992 and I haven't listened to mainstream music for almost 20 years, I have no idea what lady gaga or taylor swift sound like.

Posted by PVandJellay
I miss seeing little girls do this:


GIFSoup

Inside, outside, POP UP!

Damn, I never see little girls outside jumping rope any more. I don't even know if my nieces know how to jump rope. 😢

A couple of summers ago we had a "family" picnic and my girlfriend's sister brought a jump rope. It was nice to see the kids play, but like all hatherings we had to make a competition out of it. We played the alpahbet game, kids vs the adults---yes our grown asses should have sat the hell down, but we beat them lol. Watching grown men jumping rope OMG good times. Nice to know we still had it. 😄

*gatherings

Posted by Huldra

I don't know what's up with this movie that so many grown ups of today are obsessed by the memory of it

For me I really had only 3 years of childhood experiences. That was when my parents separated and I moved to my grandparents in a province area. I was in 1st grade until 3rd grade. Year 1992-1995.

Here are some i can remember,

climbing trees with my cousins
catching fish with our bare hands in the stream
fishing using handmade fishing rod under a footbridge in the beach
gardening (flowers and veges)
sewing barbie clothes
cooking using cans and hand made tents
joining my guy friends in catching sparrows using slingshot and grilled it (sorry for those birds!)
catching dragon flies but letting them go afterwards. (darn! I remember my guy cousin tied the dragonfly's head with a sewing thread to make it like his pet! 😢 ( I cried when the head was cut off)
Playing with cats!
Catching spiders and keep them in matchboxes.
Looking for earthworms and play with mud.
Making and playing kites.
Playing in the rain!


Hhmm.. I guess that was all I can remember.. wow! I realized how active i was! I missed those days! When my mom took me again back to the city, i cannot play outside anymore since my mom was a nervous freak. hihi. She was also a bit disappointed i was not as feminine as she wanted me to act. Hmm.. Anyhow.. that experience was priceless. 🙂