What parts of your childhood would you like to relive now and then?

@TheHorse (218881)
Walnut Creek, California
February 9, 2017 10:21pm CST
This afternoon, I got to relive some parts of my childhood. When I was nine through about 16, my friends and I would play touch football almost every day after school. My resistant afternoon 10-year-old kid client didn't want to play guitar, didn't want to play Legos, and didn't want to work on a project. But he did want to go outside and play football catch. We worked on lead passes, catching with one hand, and even punting. I don't think I'd tried to punt a football in over a decade. We wound up having fun, and I was able to get him to listen well and not be so bossy, which is one of his "treatment goals." For me it was fun because I got to do what (my body tells me) is still one of my favorite things: throwing and catching a football. Do you have childhood things you get to relive now and then?
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josefina
@josie_ (10034)
• Philippines
10 Feb 17
Some youthful activity are best left alone in our memory vault. Too strenuous for our old body. Medical treatment are costly.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (218881)
• Walnut Creek, California
10 Feb 17
But some you can still do, like watching animals and their antics. I always enjoyed that.
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josefina
@josie_ (10034)
• Philippines
10 Feb 17
@TheHorse _ I prefer watching the antics of my grandchildren.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (218881)
• Walnut Creek, California
10 Feb 17
@josie_ Playing with littlies allows me to be a kid. In the girls' "dramatic play," I'm usually "dad," but with the boys, we do stuff like build monster stacky towers, which I still enjoy.
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Scott Ganschow
@teamfreak16 (43418)
• Denver, Colorado
10 Feb 17
Not really. Not anymore, other than maybe riding my bike, and I wasn't really riding for miles on end when I was a kid like I do now.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (218881)
• Walnut Creek, California
10 Feb 17
I like riding like I did when I was a kid. When I want to, for as long as I want to.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (218881)
• Walnut Creek, California
10 Feb 17
@teamfreak16 I rarely ride that far.
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Scott Ganschow
@teamfreak16 (43418)
• Denver, Colorado
10 Feb 17
@TheHorse - I try to do that, but there are many days that I really just need to ride 35 or 40 miles.
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celticeagle
@celticeagle (166976)
• Boise, Idaho
10 Feb 17
Those times when I was really young. Five or six. TImes spent with my dad. Mostly my early memories are of times spent at my grandmother's. I spend my summers there.
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celticeagle
@celticeagle (166976)
• Boise, Idaho
29 Mar 17
@TheHorse .....I lived at mine.
The Horse
@TheHorse (218881)
• Walnut Creek, California
29 Mar 17
I had fun at my Grandmother's house. Aunts' and Uncles' houses too.
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Anna
@LadyDuck (471541)
• Switzerland
10 Feb 17
I never liked to play with a ball, but I remember that I loved jumping rope. I think that this is something that I can still do... when nobody watches of course.
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Anna
@LadyDuck (471541)
• Switzerland
29 Mar 17
@TheHorse I have a jumping rope, I tried last Saturday and I can still jump easily. This is not too bad at my age.
The Horse
@TheHorse (218881)
• Walnut Creek, California
29 Mar 17
I might trip and fall. But I've learned to dribble a basketball through my legs, like Stephen Curry.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (340019)
• Rockingham, Australia
10 Feb 17
It's good that you managed to come up with something that he enjoyed doing. It must be a bit tricky sometimes.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (218881)
• Walnut Creek, California
10 Feb 17
It is. I try to establish a common denominator or two with each kid before I work toward "treatment goals." Sports and music are my two main "comfort zones."
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (340019)
• Rockingham, Australia
10 Feb 17
@TheHorse I guess you need to establish some point of contact or areas of 'compatability' before you can do much towards helping them.
Pammoo Raj Ratan
@pammooratan (4668)
• India
11 Feb 17
When I was at 10 I used to play with my friends and classmates cricket in the school grounds. That were memorable days.I would like to live again If I.get a.chance.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (218881)
• Walnut Creek, California
29 Mar 17
Cricket to you would be like baseball and football to me. I miss that.
Pammoo Raj Ratan
@pammooratan (4668)
• India
29 Mar 17
@TheHorse I hope you get to chance to play again.
vanny
@vandana7 (100288)
• India
10 Feb 17
Playing badminton...yeah...would love to.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (218881)
• Walnut Creek, California
29 Mar 17
I've played that only occasionally!
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Always smiling
@allknowing (136446)
• India
29 Mar 17
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ber_fruit_(Ziziphus_mauritiana).png
As kids we would pluck fruits from a tree that we called 'ber' or borum. It had many thorns but we would take a stick and shake the branches and the fruits would fall down. This fruit was the favourite of kids. I got an opportunity to eat them as one tree has come up just near our compound wall. I have been watering and this year it has started yielding. I am enjoying those fruits now.
Ria Roy
@ria1606roy (2797)
• Kolkata, India
11 Feb 17
Jump over the fences and hide in others' gardens playing hide and seek with childhood friends, when we had much less to worry about really miss those days!
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The Horse
@TheHorse (218881)
• Walnut Creek, California
29 Mar 17
Yep. We knew our neighbors' back yards like the palms of our hands. That's where we'd run and hide after pelting passing cars with snowballs.
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Nanette Piotrowski
@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
10 Feb 17
No thank heavens as none of it was good @TheHorse .
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The Horse
@TheHorse (218881)
• Walnut Creek, California
29 Mar 17
Sorry to hear that.
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Angie
@andriaperry (116936)
• Anniston, Alabama
10 Feb 17
Yes! Swing on a swing at the park. I used to go after dark and play on the swings and monkey bars :) Its been a while but I would go anytime if I could.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (218881)
• Walnut Creek, California
10 Feb 17
Yep. Some stuff never ceases to be fun, so long as your body allows.
Rosy Rodriguez
@LUNAPINK (33)
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10 Feb 17
I always think about going back in time and re-doing alot of things like one being my middle school years. I would have stood up for myself when this one person was bullying me ?? I would have studied harder as well so school wouldn't be as hard right now ??
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S Mohammed Khazim
@khazim (1)
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10 Feb 17
Yes i would like to relieve my Childhood things. I would like to go to school to see my first crush and this time i'm not gonna miss the chance i will propose her and be with her for rest of my life
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The Horse
@TheHorse (218881)
• Walnut Creek, California
10 Feb 17
Heh heh. I can think of similar things I wish I'd done.
Vyacheslav Kuchinsky
@aktivnyj100 (86)
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29 Mar 17
Childhood is a fun time, I like watching children and remembering my mischievous childhood.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (218881)
• Walnut Creek, California
29 Mar 17
Yep. It's why the minor naughtinesses of boys do not bother me.
Jekca
@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
10 Feb 17
the not having to work or worry about bills part, when the biggest issues were getting math homework done and bedtime
Valerie J. Routhieaux
@just4him (317089)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
10 Feb 17
I collect paper dolls, which is something I played with a lot as a kid.
Laurel (L_B)
@Happy2BeMe (99380)
• Canada
11 Feb 17
I would want to go back and relive some of our family vacations with my mom and dad. Those are some of my dearest memories.
librarygeek1980
@librarygeek1980 (3137)
• United States
10 Feb 17
Probably bike riding for hours all over town. That and bumming around the malls, but most malls barely exist now.
praseetha
@44hatsoff44 (1)
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10 Feb 17
I want to relive those days again,,,those wr the best days of my life no tension no worries nothing,,, how during holidays me and my BFF used to wander here nd there,