30 Things From Childhood That We Only Started To Appreciate Once We Grew Up

I am 67 years old, and I agree. I cannot do 3/4 of the stuff I used to be able to do. It really bothers me.

My mom is 68 and she still has far more energy than I do it blows my mind. I'm 37 and feel like an olympian if I play ball hockey with my kids, mow the lawn and BBQ dinner in the same day.

I'm only a young adult and I feel it like crazy!! Can't upvote this enough. How the hell was I able to jump rope so easily for such a long time? Now I can't jump 30 seconds without being exhausted even if I'm in shape!

In my 20's I used to do SO much stuff every day! On the weekend I'd take classes, go shopping, clean my apartment, and then go out at night. Now I'm in my late 40's and I'm exhausted if I do one thing per day. I wish I had appreciated that energy when I had it!

I'm 59, I'll be 60 in a few months. Last year, I still had all kind of energy to keep up with my 6&9 yo grandsons, to create big gardens for growing vegetables. I went down there the day before yesterday. I only cleaned out I e bix if weeds, put in potting soil, because the garden is three years old, and the dirt has lost its minerals by the time I got the soil mixed in with fertilizer, I had to go home. I felt like I was completely wore out, and my back was really mad at me! I'm going to have to get help this year, because also the couple next door to the garden, want me to grow a garden for them this year too. I know now, I can't do it alone anymore...

I totally get that.

This is incredibly sweet.

As a young kid we used to go to the cinema on a Friday night and get fish and chips on the way home. That died off as my dad started working shifts, although that meant he was at home with us during the school holidays. I think he was glad when school started up again.

Don't forget to thank your dad

Yup. I remember how easily my father would fall asleep. I only understand it now.

I've recently seen a ... Skibidi Toilet, which is apparently a little chipmunk voice man singing and spinning in a toilet. It made me really happy that I am not a kid right now because my neighbors children love that weird thing.

3 months? We only have 2 months

It's makes me a little sad that kids don't how great it was to be free of any concern, other than how high you could swing on the swing-set.

I loved teaching, don't get me wrong, but loved having the three months off a year!

Stares in European

id witness my parents carry my baby bro back to his bed and his cute little face riddled with confusion after he woke up

I used to pretend to still be asleep when the car stopped and I actually woke up, just so I didn't have to walk to bed.

That would be a superhero skill now

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Depending on context this could be great or really creepy..

And Amazon is killing the Big Box stores. Will it never end?

I miss small shops, period. There aren't many malls anymore, and most of them are half-empty. There aren't many local stores at all.

Uncontrolled capitalism is like a cancer...and thru uncontrolled consumerism, we are the host.

The interstate highway system played a role in that. Bypassing small towns, kinning their business districts. It's all been gone over before of course...population growth, white flight, business competetion...the old downtown full of specialty shops model just couldn't keep up.

We were also able to go outside to play.

I still get that feeling. Every christmas, I plan at least one day with no meet-ups. For instance we'll do christmas eve at my sister's house, first day of christmas is free, second day of christmas we go to my boyfriends family. I love it, because I wake up on christmas morning with an empty agenda, feeling that sense of serenity and coziness that I felt as a kid.

Yep. Christmas has lost all magic for me. I’m at the point where I dread that time of year and am very grateful when it’s over

The best Christmases I had were after I left home and it was just me and the dog and a tree with dog presents under it. Growing up, Christmas meant my dad was home and swearing because he had to put up the &*^% tree and being an all-round general black cloud on a nice day, filling the days with stress and tension.

My husband and I quit celebrating Christmas 20 years ago. If I see something I think one of my kids would like (they are all grown and in their own homes) I buy it and give it to them then instead of waiting for a far of holiday. Surprise gifts to me are much better than the duty gifts, and seem to be much more appreciated.

That's why we got rid of presents for adults and only give to anyone under 18

I never knew how many people had an unhappy family life until I got to college. I really began to appreciate my family and how rare it was to all like and support each other.

The extremes are real. Friend had a widowed mom, who put him and his brother into foster homes. One of them was physically abused, and they got split up. New foster homes were better for one, worse for the other. Mother remarried and started a new family. Step-father was abusive to her original sons when they came to visit. Amazing that the eldest son was both successful and happy as an adult.

My folks split up when I was three. I spent my whole life surrounded by people who couldn't relate to that. At one point I was engaged to a woman who said she'd only known one person before me with divorced parents

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It was and still is unusual.

Reminds me of those videos where the parent lion or tiger is super shocked and reacts so big to their little cub’s “surprise” attack. ❤️

Good dad.

I miss having a decently functioning body...

As a 64yo woman who just broke her leg due to brittle bones I'll take half a functional body for 500 Alex...🤣

I miss my energy

I miss having perfect vision, joints that didn’t hurt and a bladder that could last through the night

Those times were so much easier. Being able to be gone all day without parent supervision and just checking in every now and again with one of our friend's parents. (Usually when we were hungry).

I want to be able to do this but my parents would not let me :(

You probably can still do that though 😉