My kids go back to school tomorrow after a nice summer holiday.We just did day trips, but enjoyed all the same.I've got myself back driving after serious illness, so managed to go a few places with them during the day while hubby was in work.I never went anywhere as a kid, it was a treat to play outside all day in the summer hols, that's my fond memories.Kids today don't know how lucky they are.What are your favourite childhood memories of school holidays?
2007-09-03 20:44:16 · 15 answers · asked by CMH 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Other - Holidays
I was not taken to any holiday in my childhood. I learnt the word 'holiday' when I came to this country. I come from the Philippines. As a child, time off from school, was just playing with neighbours, no computers, no telly, and no toys. But it was the most happiest time in my life because we were very creative and imaginative as children. We created a game with rules, penalty and reward. We improvised on what was available in the playing field and in our own backyard. At times we would play at the railway (safely) like the film the railway children. Full of happy memories.
2007-09-03 23:49:37 · answer #1 · answered by Julie old tune 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For my siblings and I (and I will point out that I am an Empty-Nesting Single Retiree -- so Childhood School Holidays are DECADES in the past) ....
Winter Break -- a time of great chill, large mounds of snow everywhere, skiing (cross-country), Ice Skating/Hockey, snow-shoeing, and sledding down the piles of snow that were made by the snow removal crews (Ah, what fun -- and how fast we would go!)
Spring Break -- The Thaw is either imminent or happening ... water everywhere, splashing through puddles, seeing the snowmen we built get a 'sauna treatment' ... putting away the winter things for the season, and looking longingly at our bicycles and motorcycles ...
Summer Break -- Camping! Visiting our Grandma at her lake house and helping her out ... running through the fields to the creekside and splashing down, Bicycling around the neighborhood, playing games with other children and doing the yardwork (hey, we enjoyed mowing the lawn, taking care of the trees and bushes, etc).
These are a few of our favorite childhood memories of school holidays. However ... let me also point this out ... my siblings and I DID LOOK FORWARD to the start of school as well -- because we enjoyed learning and having fun in school every day!
2007-09-04 00:37:17 · answer #2 · answered by sglmom 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i know im only 19 and cant really say 'when i was younger' but i do honestly think that even 10 years ago being blissfully happy just being off school during the summer, getting up late going and calling for my best friends and playin football in the park. We didnt really go on holidays as such but remembering how we entertained ourselvs by jst playin games and even lyin watching the clouds seeing what shapes we could see still stays with me and makes me wish that as an 'adult' i could feel the same way as i did back then.
2007-09-03 21:09:22 · answer #3 · answered by sarah_kid1 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sorry to hear of your illness i hope you get better soon, i used to love summer holidays and when i was younger ....im 42....... we used to go sgrumping and climbing trees i was a bit of a tomboy and had so much fun....and used to go to dunstable and stay with my aunty on a farm and the best memories has to be staying out all day with the horses coming in for a hot dinner and into bed....shattered...there was 8 children so sweets were very much a treat as was pop
hope you get better soon
2007-09-03 20:56:09 · answer #4 · answered by Gaynor 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
mine was writing poetry and was put in a book for out school seeing my first cottage and a rain forest i had a lot of good memories even playing Henry The 8th. dressed as a boy at the end nd my long hair came out from under that hat and square dancing.
2007-09-04 00:02:47 · answer #5 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Going to Disney World
2016-05-21 00:08:48 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i used to love to go on holiday to newquay as a kid and just spend hours walking along the river gannel when the water was out and the same on fistral beach. we used to stop in a lovely hotel called the bewdley.since ive left home ive never had another holiday in a hotel in the past 15 years!!!!!
2007-09-03 21:10:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Going by steam train to the country to stay on my Uncle and Auntie's farm. It was like paradise to us kids, without them we would never have had a holiday away.
2007-09-04 02:09:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Staying out to play all day was the best, that's why there were hardly any fat kids when we were children.
The best memory was seeing how far we could push our luck in staying out for longer than we were allowed in the evening before it got dark...."ah mum, just another ten minutes...pleeeeeeeeease!"
lol
2007-09-03 21:05:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The train back home to London - I was at boarding school. Still loathe the country, still love London
2007-09-03 20:52:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋