What did you do in your childhood?
By suny
@suni51 (3429)
India
May 27, 2018 11:40pm CST
Hi Mylotters- My topic is not limited to the TV we watched ever since we get it in early '80s (TV was here before '80s too but not worth mentioning with just one channel for a limited time of two hours in the evening). In fact, I am interested in people's choice about what they loved watching or doing in their childhood.
I know most of us have a good memory and we remember our TV programs and movies and other programs right from the childhood age. But here I am thinking about other things too like what toys or games you watched, advertisements you remember or anything that takes you back to your childhood days. Ah... those lovely and great days.
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@mlgen1037 (29886)
• Manila, Philippines
28 May 18
My cousins and I are always out at night to play hopscotch, hide and seek, patintero and etc. It was so fun!
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@suni51 (3429)
• India
28 May 18
@mlgen1037 Actually that was a colony of agricultural engineers which provided a lot of land for research and development besides large lawns and land for personal use. We still live on the outskirts of a large city with lawns and garden in three sides and a public park just in front of my house. So I still climb up the trees but not very often though!
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@suni51 (3429)
• India
28 May 18
All children did it perhaps and I can vouch for that. We used to live in a colony with only 9 houses within that campus and hectares of land at our disposal with trees, lawns and whatnot we too used to do a lot of fun things. Tree climbing was our main passion and I remember the special time when I fell off a guava tree and almost broken my knee.
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@mlgen1037 (29886)
• Manila, Philippines
28 May 18
@suni51 Really? I lived in the city and trees are not available much here so there was no climbing of trees except when we spend our vacations in the province. It was even more fun because we could go under the trees and eat there and play under the sun. It was something to cherish.
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@Jessabuma (31700)
• Baguio, Philippines
28 May 18
I liked to play with my neighbor's children. My favorite TV series before were , Captain Barbell, Volta, and many more
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@suni51 (3429)
• India
28 May 18
@Jessabuma like dancing, sports sessions, swimming etc!
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@Jessabuma (31700)
• Baguio, Philippines
28 May 18
@suni51 yes I enjoyed my childhood times..
What do you mean by hobby class?
@Nawsheen (28643)
• Mauritius
28 May 18
I used to play lots of outdoor games with my friends, go to the park nearly every Sunday and eat lots of snacks with no worry about gaining some weight. It was a stress-free life. I also remember the board games I used to play with my grandpa.
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@allknowing (136403)
• India
29 May 18
How can I forget that program - If its Tuesday this must be Belgium - in black and white ofcourse. TV came i my life just around the seventies and by then I was an adult and beyond.
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@allknowing (136403)
• India
29 May 18
@suni51 We played so many games. Do you know the game L O N D O N London? The person who spells it hides her face and others move towards her but if she sees them moving they are out.
There are countless others too.
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@allknowing (136403)
• India
29 May 18
@suni51 Those were the days. We siblings got on well together.
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@suni51 (3429)
• India
29 May 18
@allknowing This game is new to me but sounds interesting. Yes I have played countless games during my younger days because I had nothing else to do.
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@CookieMonster46 (13454)
• United States
28 May 18
I liked to play outside with other kids I like playing family games monopoly , read books.
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@suni51 (3429)
• India
28 May 18
@CookieMonster46 I haven't watched that but heard it was a popular one about couple of decades ago. We did have TV in our country but it was in its initial stage.
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@Sreekala (34312)
• India
28 May 18
There so many plays we could enjoy without spending money. That was a wonderful time, engaged with nature. We had goats and it was our (children's) duty to feed them after school timing. As you know they will eat themselves, so by that time we got so much time to explore and enjoy by ourselves.
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@suni51 (3429)
• India
28 May 18
That must be fun! By the way did you eat any of the things provided for your goats. We remember the time when the salt and jaggery meant for bulls and cows was kept in our courtyard and we the children would take a bite or two of the jaggery and run away from there.
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@silvermist (19702)
• India
1 Jun 18
During my childhood,we did not have TV.I spent most of the time looking at butterflies and damselflies flying around the flowers in my back yard,especially on Four 0 clock flowers.It is many years later that I watched StarTrek ,Jamie and The Magic Torch and Giant Robot with my son on TV.I remember the Asiad and Cricket matches too.At college and at home( with my siblings) I used to play Badminton.
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@suni51 (3429)
• India
1 Jun 18
same here minus looking at flowers for a long time and I used to play badminton at school, college , state and national level. We did everything that children did in our time including breaking neighbor's window glasses with cricket ball and stole their fruits (despite having our own aplenty)
@LeaPea2417 (37353)
• Toccoa, Georgia
29 May 18
My sister and I would play games and we would watch tv.
@just4him (317041)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
28 May 18
I did like watching TV. There were a lot of great programs in the 60's and 70's. I also spent a lot of time outside, especially in summer, when I was at the pool every day. My favorite programming growing up were westerns. I also liked a couple science fiction programs. Perhaps you've heard of Star Trek. There was also 1999.
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@1210800460 (557)
• China
28 May 18
I played with my friends in my childhood.There were no toys ,no TV in those time.But we played in nature and we were happy.I miss those old time.I miss my old friends
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@sw8sincere (5204)
• Philippines
28 May 18
I like playing outside with or without playmates. I also love to sing a lot.
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@suni51 (3429)
• India
28 May 18
@sw8sincere Are you still shy or come out of that stage? I wish I knew how to play a musical instrument!
@sw8sincere (5204)
• Philippines
28 May 18
@suni51 i play alone because I was a shy kid when I was younger and yes, i play musical instruments too... I love to play a piano.
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