All change around!!!

Hello Anne, I have no regrets in my Childhood though, it was quite hard for my family since we are not rich. But, if I will be asked to go back,LOL, I will not too, I am done on it,learn from it,enjoy the hardships and I have learned a lot in life at a young age, I will just choose my present life. I am very happy with my partner and having a very loving and supportive parents and sister as always.

I can identify with your son. When I was a little girl, I couldn't wait to grow up. I wanted to grow up because I thought I'd have more freedom to do the things I want as an adult. Little did I know that freedom always comes with responsibility and that if I mess up in making my decisions I'd always have to take the bigger part of the blame ultimately. Now that I've grown up, I miss my childhood. I didn't have the best childhood though. My parents split up when I was eight and I was forced to grow up too soon. But I had a lot of adventures and misadventures. It was one of the most exciting times of my life. I miss my carefree days when I didn't have to worry about a lot of things -- my mom and my elders had to do the worrying for me. This is not to say, though, that I don't like my life the way it is now. I like being an adult. I like being able to make my decisions, being free from the restrictions that my mom and my elders once imposed upon me, being able to earn my keep, being able to decide how to live my life and being able to experience romance. But there are certainly some things that I miss about my childhood.

No, I would not want to live backward, or even change places for a day. I like this age and right now better than anything else. I am also promising to quit worrying about tomorrow and when I am older. I am just going to rest in the fact that today is today, and it is good.

I wouldn't want to be a kid again either. Yuck. Especially today with what they have to go through. I'm 56, and my childhood was much simpler. I have a friend, though, who came up with an idea similar to this. Not physically changing. :-) His idea had to do with salaried. He mentioned that when we're young and have young children, we struggle the most with low salaries, long hours, etc. His idea was that we should pay people right out of college more and instead of paying more and more, pay less and less as people age. After kids are out of college, for instance, a salary decrease. Interesting idea. In the United Methodist Church, pastors who are young and have growing families often pastor small churches and, therefore, have small houses. As they get more experienced, they move to larger churches and have larger homes. Then...I met one who was 62, his kids were grown and gone, but his home had 5 bedrooms (4 empty). At the time, our pastor had 5 kids at home in a 2 3/4 bedroom house. Didn't seem right.

I can relate for my 9 yr. old son said just that not to long ago and my response to him was " enjoy being a kid while you can for when you get to be like daddy and I you will have to go to work and pay bills and have bigger responsibilites than you do now I know you don't like to be told what to do and when to do them but it's part of being a kid honey enjoy it while it lasts" all he said was I know like he didn't want to hear it but it's true. I personally would change things around again if I could for I had it so easy everything was free food, liveing, you name it I had my parents doing all of that. All I had to do was follow their rules which yes some I hated but followed them anyway went to school and had fun. Kids have it easy even though they think they don't. I like where I am now don't get me wrong for I can make my own decisions and noone tell me what to do being a mom to my son learning bigger and better resposabilities but to to change it around again I would just for the fun of it.

Well the good book says once a man twice a child. Childhood days are nice to me. Sometimes I wish I was still a child. Then I would not make those horrible mistakes that I make since reaching adulthood. I remember when we were children attending secondary school and dieing to graduate to reach adulthood. A former teacher look at us and say that we are running down something that we are going to wish never happen. Until this day I still remember this saying. Adulthood comes with responsibilities. Alot of it. It is not that I am afraid of responsibilities, no way. It is the relationships that has gone weary. So tell your son to enjoy his childhood because adulthood maybe look pretty on the outside but the inside is bursting with pain, bills and heartache.

I wouldn't want to go back in time either, if you ever read all my stories I have been posted here about my childhood you will see that it was not a very happy one nor one that I would like to repeat.

all children start to think like that i think, ironicly i thought like that to at a time but now that im an adult i hate being older, i woulden't like to live life backwards though because you would start out with illnesses and stuff from old and also go through harder times and childhood would already be lost even if you reached a younger age and that would be sad, i would love to be a kid again, without having to stress about what to do in life and jobs and making money and studding harder to do something and "looking for love" making plans 100 years ahead or more for children and so on, i loved the freedom of my childhood and living life from day to day without caring that much about money and being presentable at work, and about being told what to do i would prefer being told to go to bed than to wear a tie or a suit right and stuff like that so in that department nothing changed just more complications came

ohmyg no no no. I was as skinny awkward kid and they called me bashful but I was just shy. and my parents were far from being shy. I fell a lot and always had scabs on my knees. oh no I would not like to go back and be me as a child. I have had love and children and a husband I loved and whom loved me That was a good time in my life yet right now is not so bad as a senior citizen with an adult son whom I love and who loves me. I am free, retired and mylotting whats not to like. this is now a good time for me too.