looking back

[DQ4BAMA]

As a kid me and some of my best friends always played wiffle ball all summer long. It was like a right of childhood in our neighborhood. I rode by the old park where we use to play and it was kind of sad, because I saw no sign of kids playing anymore. Look like the park had just become and empty field.
Some might say kids have more to do these days but I think they are missing out on a great childhood. Just ask lucylou how long me and her son would play in that park. I know it is kind of still cold out but damn that meant football in the park back in the day. Guess I just miss being a kid.

[Chrissy]

I miss being a kid too. I wonder if parents are nervous for their kids now? I remember every day, all summer, we would walk the neighborhoods, we played in the canals and the footbridge ALL the time. It was like our "world". Magic happened there. I miss that so much sometimes. I miss the sound of the crickets when it was almost dark and time to go in, get a bath and eat supper.

[LucyLou]

The park was never empty when you guys were kids. Ya'll always had the most fun all year long, especially in the summer months. It is sad because it's rare to see kids playing there now. It's also very hard to believe you guys are grown with family's of your own now. Ya'll are getting old...I'm not..lol. Do you remember the time Brock cussed when one of ya'll got him out and MeMaw was sitting on the patio and made him go home? That was a no-no when MeMaw was within listening distance. She kept ya'll straight!

[DQ4BAMA]

yea she sent me home a time or two. Always thought she was my grandma too.

[LucyLou]

yea she sent me home a time or two. Always thought she was my grandma too.

She loved you like you were hers.

[Ms. Alabama]

What I would give to have the "no worry" life that my second graders have. I miss childhood too!

[PinkAnesha]

I miss childhood too. Everything was so easy and defined back then. I have 4 siblings and we all played in the neighborhood's empty lots with all of the kids in our little subdivision. We used them as football fields, dirt bike fields, anything and everything. I remember picking berries there too. We had our own little clubhouse and everything. I really miss it. We all used to make trips up to our local gas station and buy all the candy we could carry. I love thinking back on those times.

[Ranger]

Oh yea, my child hood. I remember playing Hunger, a game me, my brother, and cousin made up, all night long. We would take a hike up the mountains all the time, hell we just had to open that back door and there they were. Go looking in the caves. Go out looking for Arrowheads. Shoot the guns. Man those were the days. Hardly ever did we stay inside unless we were sick, hurt or in trouble. We didn't have the river or any water around us so we couldn't fish, ski, go tubbing, or anything like that. So we would ride the horses down the dry ravine or ride our bikes thru the levy.

I was just talking to my cousin from Texas the other day about all the good times we had. I wish I could go back for a while.

[hgy4681]

DIDDO... Chrissy and Ms.Alabama!!!

[Mystic_Rhythms]

I remember in my childhood sleepovers with my best friends, fishing and hunting (laughing and telling jokes while not catching anything). I remember how much simpler things were back then. Didn't have to worry about bills, getting to work on time and all that. The summers when I was out of school and my best friend lived about 1 mile up the dirt road from me, he would come over at like 8am with his 4-wheeler and we would ride trails and ride down in the gravel pit just down from my house. We wouldn't get home until like 4pm. We had video games and such then, but who wanted to play that cooped up in a room all day staring at a TV screen hoping I could make it to the next level. Kids today haven't had the kind of life I think that most of us had. They mainly seemed worried about if they have the newest PS game or cell phones and things like that. Kids need to play outside more, that's what God made yards and parks for. Hop on a bicycle with a couple friends like we did and forget the streets, hit the woods and just ride, explore. Find little secret places and build a fort and play war. I didn't want to grow up, I still feel like a kid sometimes and want to do the things I did as a kid and I am 32 years old. Kids needs to slow down and enjoy...just being a kid!

[armywife87]

I remember being a kid, well i still am a kid to alot of yall, but still i got a husband to worry about, bills to pay and things that got to get done. I still go to the park everytime im home(in demop) to play on the play ground. And there's never anyone there. I know my cusion (she's 10) talks like she's 30 and it drives me crazy b/c she needs to be a kid. When i was little i loved to get out with all the other kids and play kick ball... oh what a great game, and everone could play it. We also would play base ball but um i was never too good at that game. and hanging upside down on the monkey bars (i still do that) was awsome. And playing in the creek that ran behind my house was a BLAST. all the crawl daddys and tadpolls and the MUD and not freakin out b/c i got MUD on me. yea... what i could give to be a kid... and all the walking WALK EVERYWHERE me and alyssa's mommy would be up at 2 in the morn walking down the street, and it was safe to walk down the street at 2 in the morn... okay well ill stop.... dang... what i would give to be a kid..

[brown_eyed_girl]

I can remember when I was little, playing with my sister and my brother. I can remember dancing around with bamanut and jewels just like they did on Dirty Dancing and bamanut singing "Mandy" (Yes, the Barry Manilow song) except she'd always say Sandy. I remember everyday dressing up like snow white in my costume that mama made me and laying in the clothes basket and pretending that prince charming was going to come. I can remember watching bedknobs and broomsticks over and over again. being scared to death of E.T., that big black dog that lived down the road, and teddy ruckspen (sp?). Mama always had to call Kenneth "Mogley" just like the kid from the jungle book. I can remember being a flower girl in my Aufan's sis' wedding.....
My childhood was full of fun!! I cant think of one thing I would'nt give up to go back and start all over again.

[Papa2]

Lol well how many of You couldnt wai ttil you got older so you could do other things though !!! Not many have I known couldnt wait to get older but my granddaughter Bailey has actually cried sayign she didnt want to get older she was having ot much fun as a kid lol!! I dont wish to go back to those times though I do remember some wonderful ones as Im sure I would make the same mistakes over again so Im happy just being ayoung 53 slmost 54 lol now~!!!!!!!

[BIG JIM]

ahhhh.....going back to the stream in the woods...staying all day.....taking red throw-away cups and catching crawdaddies with them... and even a small fish from time to time.....only worry i had was being back home by dark!!

[AngelWing]

I miss childhood too. Everything was so easy and defined back then. I have 4 siblings and we all played in the neighborhood's empty lots with all of the kids in our little subdivision. We used them as football fields, dirt bike fields, anything and everything. I remember picking berries there too. We had our own little clubhouse and everything. I really miss it. We all used to make trips up to our local gas station and buy all the candy we could carry. I love thinking back on those times.


Your's sounds just like mine! I was one of 5 kids too and we did the same things. We lived next to an empty lot and would spend hours playing stick ball or climbing trees. We would get pieces of grass and hunt of sand lions in the holes on the ground. SUCH FUN!! Back then you didn't stay in the house to play unless it was raining. Our father built us a swing set using huge timber that was about 10 feet up and I would shimmy up and sit on the top to get a bird's eye view of the neighborhood, such as it was. We were rather poor back back then.

We moved to Prattville when I was 11 and had a much better neighborhood but the ground rules remained the same, you played outside, unless it was raining, and since we had a carport now, even then we stayed outside more. LOL Those were some great memories of exploring and adventure in our own back yard and I don't think a lot of the kids do that nowadays and they miss out on a lot of fun.

[Daddy'sBabyGirl]

ahhhh.....going back to the stream in the woods...staying all day.....taking red throw-away cups and catching crawdaddies with them... and even a small fish from time to time.....only worry i had was being back home by dark!!

I remember going to the bogue and swimming and catching crawdaddies with my grandmother and cousins! We also used to go to Chickasaw and swim in their "concrete pond."

[The_King]

When i was a boy, I used to spin my dreidal

[rockingtenn]

Growing up in a huge family (6 boys, 3 girls) we had so much fun. There was about 30 kids on our block and we would always get together and play a game named "tin can bully!". Of course, when there wasn't enough kids around me and my best friend would always resort to the "old faithful" game.... we dressed up and got in my dad's old pick-up(which didn't have motor) and Bo and Luke Duke we became! You spend your whole childhood wanting to be an adult and you spend your whole adulthood trying to be a kid again!

[Belle]

My friends and I used to ride our bikes all over town. We would ride to the private pool during the summer swim for hours and then ride home.

We used to ride down to Traeger's Bakery and get some turtleback cookies or creme horns (The BEST!). Then we would go home and eat them with an ice cold Pepsi.

We played softball and watched the ;) boys play ball at the Westside fields.

No responsibilty and no cares. Those were the days. :cool:

[Bullet]

Hey. I am looking forward to my second childhood,when I get older.
I have always heard that what happen when you get older. Just
think of all the things you can get away with. They blame it on your
age. Just hope, that none of the illness and sickness are a part of it.

[Bel]

Mud...lots of mud. 4-wheeler riding, swimming in ponds, getting in trouble because we weren't allowed to go to the lock and dam on our 4-wheelers. No care in the world. That's what I remember about my childhood.:D

[dillybar]

Hey. I am looking forward to my second childhood,when I get older.
I have always heard that what happen when you get older. Just
think of all the things you can get away with. They blame it on your
age. Just hope, that none of the illness and sickness are a part of it.

Me too :) Just let us enjoy!

[Bullet]

Thanks dillybar,( lets hope it's a long way off ), by the way, I
have some kin up there, in your neck of the woods.

[CedarSam]

I remember...riding my bike to Little League baseball practices, back yard camp outs, hiding in the attic on rainy days reading comic books, building tree houses, running thru the woods to see trains behind my house, getting lost in the cudzo, riding my neighbors goats..lol, playing King of the Hill, tag, loved wiffle ball and football, riding dirt bikes, sitting in front of my Daddy on his harley and changing gears on the tank, riding in the back of pick up trucks to go get ice cream, getting to go to mcDonalds after a game even tho we lost, learning to water skii, fishing late at night with my Grandfather and catching catfish, digging for worms under the Rabbit pens, man...I could go on for ever....

[SEC_football]

When I look back at my life, I look at all I have accomplished and I also look at my failures. The only thing I wish I had done differently was instead of coasting through high school and college only wanting to graduate to have a dimploma on the wall, I wish I would have been a better student.