If you could go back in time and be a child again for just one day what would you chose?

Question

I would love to wake up in the straw bed I shared with my two sisters.Pushing and romping as we rolled into the middle as straw used to bank each side.A bowl of porridge with treacle as sugar was scarce.We would then do our jobs,feed the rabbits and off we would go for the rest of the day.Down to the river, onto the areodrome and "fly "in the wrecked cockpits.PIck the rosehips which w e would paint silver the next day and tread into a necklace and bracelet wearing till they shrivelled and withered.As we passed houses one lady would give me the dolls hat she had knitted as she had seen me cry that my doll had a crack in her head another would offer something baked hot out of the oven. We would go home tired and happy with anything that there was for tea.After a hardy "strip wash "in the kitchen sink. A hundred brushes to our long hair we could all sit on a few nonsense songs around the piano It was kneel for Gentle Jesus and back into our straw bed. Rose coloured glassesd hear you cry

Answer 1

My childhood wasn't great for many reasons but I still have loads of happy memories.
It's a great question and has made me think.
I would choose mid-summer when I was around 8 years old. Would just play football, war, hide and seek and loads of other games with all the kids that lived nearby.
As evening drew in I would be called in by my Mum for a nice home cooked dinner. It always smelled and tasted good and then we'd always argue about how long I could go back out for. It's when I felt truly free of responsibility and guilt and i still dream about it.

Answer 2

Oh, what a delightful journey to the past that you entertained us with! Wouldn't it be wonderful if everyone had such vivid and pleasant memories. Unfortunately, a lot of folks would never want to relive their childhood, so your presentation was very welcomed. I almost felt like I was there in that straw bed romping around with you.

I guess my childhood was pretty mediocre. There were a few things I'd rather not remember, but for the most part it was okay. I remember making dolls out of hollyhocks and toothpicks, and eating popsicles on hot summer days. My younger brother and I used to make up nonsense songs and we had our own secret language with silly words. I don't think I'd want to be a kid again, but I wouldn't mind reliving my 20's and 30's. Thanks for the memories.

Answer 3

I would go back to the 7th grade, that catholic school with the hour long bus ride and said and would have said 'no' to that first cigarette i was 'peer pressured' into smoking. Even though I choked through it, the addiction had started. Unfortunately now, within the next 2 years, that one choice will affect a lot of people that I care deeply for especially the 2 teenagers that I so want to see graduate high school.

Answer 4

If I could go back I would visit my dad who would sit on the bed while I stood behind him and would brush his long hair (hippy) while he played an acoustic guitar and sang. I would also go back to the memories of myself and my 2 sisters all sharing the same bed and taking turns scratching each others backs each night as we fell asleep. Id go back and not be to scared to stay all night with my grandma who just lost my grandpa (died at home) when I was 14 who died also a couple days later. We were so close & I was her favorite! Shared most of my time with her and wish I would not have been to scared to share my time with her in her last days.

oh yeah- id go back and change the time when I was a teenager mad at my mom and wrote a letter to a friend and called my mom a ***** in it and said I hate her and she found it in my back pocket while doing laundry a couple days later and read it and was so hurt!

Answer 5

I would go back and tell myself to stop worrying,- or go bac in the full knowledge that my parents getting divorced was a good thing, that my father was never actually going to kill my mother he just said that cos he was angry and that secondary school was the best time I had in my life- that freaky girl from iran spreading cr*p about secondary schools using canes was talking b*llocks.

I had a happy childhood- but never actually experienced it as happy, I always was terrified of something happening to blow everything apart.

I blame others for scare mongering, I blame my parnts for subtracting any stability in my life but most of all I blame myself for not realising sooner!

Answer 6

Thanksgiving day! Waking up and smelling the turkey cooking (Which I didn't have to prep and put in the oven!), running and playing in the yard with my siblings and cousins, gorging myself with no concern for calories, letting the adults handle the clean up, and running and playing some more. Knowing that Christmas was right around the corner.....such bliss.

Answer 7

I'd go back to the New Years Day when my dad died and I'd ring him on the New Years Eve to have a chat because it's something I didn't do

Answer 8

I'd go back to before my grand parents passed away, and just hold onto both of them. They were the greatest people I have ever known. God I miss them.

Answer 9

I had an unhappy childhood, but I loved my grandmother. i would like to go back to a day when she was there, cooking the Sunday dinner, and she would throw her arms around me with delight when she saw me.

Answer 10

I'd love to be able to swim in our village harbour, diving and jumping off the quay and the boats.It was great fun.