Well I am not a kid anymore, but I still believe in fairies, I like playing with dolls (in fact I collect them), and I still sleep with my teddy bear every night. 

however, there's no way I would go back to being a kid again if it meant I had to be as miserable and naive as I was then.

Quote from: FairyGirl on April 04, 2009, 10:41:58 AM
Well I am not a kid anymore, but I still believe in fairies, I like playing with dolls (in fact I collect them), and I still sleep with my teddy bear every night. 

however, there's no way I would go back to being a kid again if it meant I had to be as miserable and naive as I was then.

What if you could be a kid but retain all of your current knowledge and mental bearrings?

Quote from: Saraloop on April 04, 2009, 11:08:57 AM
What if you could be a kid but retain all of your current knowledge and mental bearrings?

I'd be a seriously dangerous kid

Quote from: Saraloop on April 04, 2009, 11:08:57 AM
What if you could be a kid but retain all of your current knowledge and mental bearrings?

I'd be an adult in a kids body. It would suck.

Quote from: Nicky on April 05, 2009, 04:40:13 PM
I'd be an adult in a kids body. It would suck.

For you 

In my case it'd be far from sucky for me yahaha

Quote from: Saraloop on April 04, 2009, 11:08:57 AM
What if you could be a kid but retain all of your current knowledge and mental bearrings?

Not sure that would help in my case.  Most of the things that caused me unhappiness as a kid are the same things that cause unhappiness now: chiefly bullying, discrimination, verbal harassment, emotional abuse.  Somehow I've never been able to stop those things from happening to me, even with my greater knowledge.

Quote from: Lokaeign on April 05, 2009, 06:45:10 PM
Not sure that would help in my case.  Most of the things that caused me unhappiness as a kid are the same things that cause unhappiness now: chiefly bullying, discrimination, verbal harassment, emotional abuse.  Somehow I've never been able to stop those things from happening to me, even with my greater knowledge.

Greater experience wouldn't necessarily stop those forms of harassment, but they would help how you interpret it. I don't know about you, but verbal harassment doesn't bother me now, so even though other stuff can, I think I'd be better off, and also because I'd be in a form that society usually puts less expectations on, it would allow me to more freely act like myself.  .. it'd be likethe  merging of the carefreeness we used to have with the sense of self we've developed while living.

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i'd like to be a kid with my memories and lessons, i'd take more time to enjoy it.

I don't really remember being carefree as a kid--I was terrified a lot of the time.  If anything, I'm more carefree now.

the only potential benefit of being a child again (to me) is to take preventive measures to try and keep my body from becoming as fubar as it is right now. Bypass pain sort of thing.
That and I'd ace more tests and have better ideas of how to verbally humiliate the bullies in my school.

  with age comes wisdom? the older I get the more comfortable I feel in my skin. As you age you no longer seem to play hide and seek, that is, hiding or supressing your self percieved differences and seeking approval and justification form external sources

Quote from: Saraloop on April 04, 2009, 11:08:57 AM
What if you could be a kid but retain all of your current knowledge and mental bearrings?

I'd be one seriously jaded and cynical kid.

Quote from: Saraloop on April 04, 2009, 11:08:57 AM
What if you could be a kid but retain all of your current knowledge and mental bearrings?

OMG! I'd have an amazing sex life!

Quote from: KYLYKaHYT on April 07, 2009, 07:20:49 AM
I'd be one seriously jaded and cynical kid.

I was a serious and cynical kid... 

"I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now" Dylan

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Quote from: imaz on April 07, 2009, 07:25:50 AM
OMG! I'd have an amazing sex life!

? What?

I was referring to teenage years, not childhood.

Quote from: imaz on April 07, 2009, 09:52:16 AM
I was referring to teenage years, not childhood.

Lolita

QuoteFairyGirl
Well I am not a kid anymore, but I still believe in fairies, I like playing with dolls (in fact I collect them), and I still sleep with my teddy bear every night. 

Actually I had a wonderful childhood except at school. I was I suppose what one would call an androgynous kid. I didn't think of myself as either sex, I was just me. I fitted in better with girls then with boys, after school. I didn't change much through my teen years.

I Guess, as I call it coming to terms with my inner self, became my true self I guess I kind of wnet through a second childhood, dolls stuffies and other girlish knick knacks and I love fantasy and mystical criters and beings, like fairies, mermaids and dragons.

I still have all that stuff but this apartment is to small to take all my stuff out. Can't wait to move into a bigger place so I can take out all of my stuff.

Even though I am 63 most times I feel like I'm only 13.  Life is good.

Cindy 

i never grew up. that's my problem.

Quote from: Nero on April 07, 2009, 11:56:13 AM
i never grew up. that's my problem.

Me too, but it is only a problem when I have to deal with the consequences of not doing the things I was supposed to do (pay bills, auto repair, etc.).  Otherwise, who would ever want to be "grown up"?  Sounds like one would HAVE to eat liver and onions, have supper at 4:00 (I'm headed to Luby's and have to beat the rest of the folks from the Senior Center) and PLAN (whatever that is).

Quote from: imaz on April 07, 2009, 07:25:50 AM
OMG! I'd have an amazing sex life!

Hee hee...they said "sex"...hee hee


Ya know, when I was a child, summer seemed to last forever.  You get out of school and have a whole lifetime before you have to go back.

Now if I forget to set my alarm, I miss the whole dang season!

So, if you were a child again, but kept your memories/experiences, how long would the summer seem to last?  If I could stretch my 2 week vacation into what seems like months, sign me up!

....L