what's so great about being a kid, anyway?

77 responses total.

no bills.
less responsibility.
cheaper clothes.
babysitters. (woo-woo!)
Disney movies.

again? Still!

swinging on swings is what's so great about being a kid.

Having the belief that there are people you can turn to when you can't
handle something yourself.

Naps.
Naps rule!

being able to hide in the back of a closet....

Riding the school bus and being able to stretch your legs out and not reach
the seat in front of you when you are sitting down, but that is the only thing
that was good about the bus, other than being the last to get dropped off and
that was when the mean bus driver was magically changed to this nice lady that
would give us candy...

Having someone else cook mymeals and clean my room

Guilt-free eating of tons of chocolate chip cookies.

No thanks.  I'm happier as an adult.

There were some good points, mostly being able to feel fairly secure at
home and not having many of the worries I do now, but all those worries
are because I can do things that I couldn't do then.  I like it better
this way, although I sometimes question why.

re#8, I don't know about you, but being hassled into cleaning my room 
(after age 6 or so) was a real pain.  Also, I was doing dishes at 8 and
cooking, sewing, and doing laundry after age 10, with major responsibility
for that stuff after 12.  I'm happier as an adult for many more reasons 
than those.

being able to go sledding on REALLY BIG hills!

Why would you have to be a kid to do that ;).

The "really big hill" near my house now looks like a moderately sized pile
of dirt.  It didn't shrink; my perspective changed as I got bigger.

I find that hills seem bigger than when I was a kid..
When I was younger I wouldn't have thought twice about sprinting up the 
steepest of inclines whereas now, I find it an immense effort to walk up one,
perspectives can change in many ways, the important thing is our perception of
ourselves.. if you can see yourself as young and playful, then you can still
go sledding down those really big hills.. you just need a chairlift nowadays is
all.. ;)

Agora 43 is now linked to InBetween 17.

Hmm... Being spoiled rotten by my Grandmother.

No bills to pay.

having someone bigger pull me along in a sled.

riding ponies.

Having more to look forward to instead of more to look back on.

for some reason, though, i don't feel that my childhood has ended.  i think
that every one of us needs some child in us to get along...

true

maturity-wise, I *am* a child!
<lynne bounces off the ceiling>

Ditto

As a child, almost all of your income is disposable...assuming you
*have* income :)

I have no income as an adult...:)

I wouldn't mind some *parts* being more kid-like - such as my foot
tendons, so I could Scottish dance again, or a few other parts that
aren't as flexible, reliable, or focusable. 

I am a child age wise, but I feel like my innocence is lost...it makes me sad.

my father had no childhood, so he's having it now...it's kind of fun in some
ways, because he's got some of the greatest toys!!!1

I don't think I would want to be a child again because I hated the lack of
control.

I would love to be able to be a kid again for maybe a week and be able
to go on vacation again to Disney World....I missed the ride area and
have been traumitized ever since!!!:(

 you go gina!!
it's a small world
rocks my boat!!!!

talk to you later
mail me some time....hows the NEW love life??

SCOTT!!!!  :)  I will mail you sometime!
Another reason I would want to be a kid is because I could just sit
around the house watching TV, playing with friends, and only have a 
little homework to do!

I think that if you had a happy childhood, you might want to be a kid 
again but for those of us who didn't, we'd rather be the adults we are 
today.  (well, i'm sorta an adult, aren't I?)  ;=)

I'd like to relive my childhood. But only if I could change it a little.
I'd like my parents to stay together so I could have a normal family
(but then again what is normal?).
I'd like to be able to get to know my aunt Jerrianne and play guitar
with her before she died.
I'd like to be nicer to my mother and father.
I'd like to have a whole lot of Legos.
Well, you get the idea.

Gee... when my parents split up, it was sort of a relief.  I mean,
all the other kids in my class had had divorced parents for *years*.
I felt like a big baby to have two parents at home.  Seriously.

        It may be that "grass is always greener..." thing, or it may just
depend on where and when you are.  I remember being a bit embarrassed by
moy mom's death (a few months before I turned 13), since I didn't think I
knew anybody else with a dead parent.  I outgrew the embarrassment pretty
quickly, though.
        In contrast to my feelings of embarrassment over my mom's death,
my step mom, who grew up in the 40s and 50s, told me once that she had
been a little relieved when her dad died, since that was acceptable and
having divorced parents wasn't. 

Interesting.  My dad died when I was 16, and I was sooooo embarrassed
to tell any of my friends at school.  I think it wasn't so much
embarrassment about being different as a feeling that people were going
to pour out a ton of sympathy and act all weird, which I didn't want.

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