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The Daily Prompts the last few days haven’t been very intriguing to me, but today’s spoke to me. It said, “Hey! Write a fucking Daily Prompt post, would ya? You haven’t done one in a few days.”
So, I figured since it took the time to call me out the least I could do was oblige. After all, I have nothing else going on, right? Sure…
I turned out pretty good, huh? That’s still yet to be determined. It also depends on who you ask, but that’s neither here nor there. No, it’s not over there, either. Look, quit pointing around to everything otherwise I’ll never even get to the point of this post. You done? Good. Thank you.
Now where was I? Oh, yes! Childhood and what I wish had been different about mine. That’s easy. I’d like not to have moved 874601924751034 times before I was 18. It irks me that my wife and all kinds of other people I know still have friends that they grew up with while I was hardly ever in one spot long enough to make childhood friends. Well, that’s not technically true. What actually happened was that as soon as I got close enough to somebody to call them a good, or even best, friend that’s when we’d move. And that was even worse. It was almost like an eternal heartache. Hence the walls around my heart. A shield. A defense mechanism. If there was any one thing I could change about my childhood, that would be it.
As for my own children and what I would do differently for them…I wish I could afford to give them some of the things I had as a child. Not material things, they have those in droves. I mean sports. Soccer, basketball, baseball, or even golf. I was in some sort of organized sport until I was a sophomore in high school. It’s just so damned expensive for a kid to play sports these days and with two of them that’s obviously double the cost. Trust me, I did the math. I was able to get them into soccer for a couple of years, but then after Baby C was born I could no longer afford to do so. You know, diapers, wipes, and formula are not cheap. Plus, I wasn’t always able to do so whilst towing an infant around.
I have very fond memories of playing organized sports as a child and if I could give my boys something I haven’t been able to at this point in their lives, that would be it. They love playing sports and I go outside and play with them as often as I can, but that’s not the same.
So here we are, dearest readers. At the end of the post. This is normally the time where I would ask you the same questions which I have just answered, so I’ll do that since I can’t think of anything better to do. Here goes…
Dearest reader, if you could change anything about your childhood, what would that be? And the same question about your children’s childhood if, you know, you actually have children.
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At least they get to spend time with you….some kids don’t even get that much.
Well, yeah. But since I’m wishing I’m going for the gusto.
Good point….give that genie some extra lovin!!
I would, were he here.
I’m still hoping for a nice lottery win….so far, no luck. I’ll keep H & H in mind if I do!!
Woohoo!!!
And Baby C….but he has a few years to catch up!!
Well, soccer starts at age 4….
Geez….I’d better buy some more tickets!! Or sell a book. Sigh.
I know!! Get on it!!
Gonna move the writing desk to a better spot for more inspiration….and go buy more lottery tickets.
Well, then it seems your desk should be placed in your car.
Hmmmm….it may just fit. But then I would really need the winning lottery ticket to afford all the gas to keep me warm while I write in the car.
Ugh. What’s with the excuses?
Excellent question…damn, you’re good.
BLC™ has already made an appearance today. Please don’t provoke him a second time.
Duly noted.
Thank you.
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Hmmm. What would I change about my childhood? I would have made it to the bathroom that first Friday in my new school instead of wetting my pants during Show & Tell.
For my son? I would have treated his ADHD earlier. We were in Switzerland during the early years of it. They don’t have ADHD there in their minds.
So you had to change what you were showing and telling, huh?
No. I had to be ridiculed from 2nd to 6th grade. Never ever wet your pants in an new school. Naturally I wrote about it, but it might have been before we, um, met.
http://fiftyfourandahalf.com/2011/10/09/comes-around/
Yes, that was before our time.
Hard to believe given how often we blog-chat that there was a before, isn’t it?
Yes, it has been a long time.
For my childhood – nothing. I did childhood pretty good. It was my late teens I would do over, but lets not go there!
For my children, well – there’s always more right? I could be more loving, more available, more patient and more understanding. But most of all I wish I could give them their own home. I too got the matching set of babies – now ten!! I remember the doc saying “you’re having twins!” and all my ex could say was “but we already bought the pram!” Ha!
Hooray for twins! Mine are 13….ugh.
Now please don’t scare me about the teen years. I can feel the grey hairs paused and at the ready!
They’ve been giving me gray hairs for years.
Good stuff Twindaddy. I cannot imagine moving so much as a kid, I lost some long standing friends when my parents got divorced, I am talking kindergarten to age 14, and that was hard. I also know what it is like as a father raising kids and wanting to “do more” for them. Foe me it is easy since my father was all but non-existent, I try to just be there, go to things they like, birthday parties and stuff like that. I want to make sure they see me in the crowd if they play a sport or participate in the arts. I complain about the little buggers at time but in all reality I love them with every ounce of my soul and it would take hell itself for me to miss anything that is important to them.
As for my past I would say my wish is small even a little silly. Out of all the difficulties and bad memories I have I think I would make sure I learned piano. We had hard time as a family and there were moments that perhaps should have been different but my mother, siblings and even my dad are better for it. The one thing I always regret is not learning piano. I am sure that is super weird but its cool because it is just how I feel.
I seriously have to stop blowing up people’s comments.
Ha! It’s all good.
I played piano for years, but once I was a teenager I deemed it uncool and promptly forgot it all. I wish I hadn’t done that…
I moved around a bunch as a kid too. Not as much as you, but every two to three years or so. I envy the people that have stayed in the same place their whole lives and have known all the same people. But on the other hand, I’ve been living where I am now for quite some time, and I’m already bored.
What would I change? I don’t know. Maybe the time I accidentally wet myself in the first grade. Maybe change how I was always so anxious about things
If I could go the rest of my life without moving I would. I hate it with passion unrivaled. I’ve done it far too often and its really quite tiresome.
I would change 082(static…). It isn’t going to happen though. No kids. For their sake, TG.
You no want kids?
I don’t know that I would change anything about my childhood. I was allowed to read and write as much as I wanted. Maybe I would let the kid-me listen to more music. As far as my kids…I would change everything, absolutely everything.
I know you would. And I wish I could grant that wish for you.
Should I make it through the dangers of the Cave of Wonders, I’ll take one wish and share the other two…you get one, and I think Goldfish should get the other.
Woohoo!!
I’m not sure about changing my own childhood as I feel that everything I went through shaped me into who I am today and since I like who I am now, I’ll take all the good and bad that came my way. As for my children, if I decide to have kids, I definitely want to make sure that I have them with an extremely loving and loyal man who will be there for them always and do the best to be the best dad ever. Of course, I can’t really control this but I do hope that I end up with a fantastic man who will make that dream come true.
My childhood definitely had an impact on who I am now, but not a very good one I think.
I agree but I’m scared I would be much, much different if I had a different childhood.
Well, if you like who you are that’s understandable. I’m not exactly enamored with everything about me and I know moving around so often had a big impact on that.
I understand.
Id say your kids have everything they need to grow up to be healthy, sane and well-adjusted. You’re a great parent, my friend.
They do, but I still wish I could give them more.
And that’s what separates you from the deadbeat dads.
I guess…
Give yourself some credit, buddy!
I do. I think I’m a decent father, but I do know my shortcomings and sometimes have trouble overcoming them.
Join the club.
Do I get cookies?
As long as you don’t expect me to bake ‘em!
Oh no. I wouldn’t dream of it.
As per usual you are full of awesome.
AND I nominated you for an award. Yah know. Because I am full of awesome blog love.
Top o the list too!
Thanks for un-shitting my internets.
Haha. You’re welcome.
Hmmn… I know of one thing I’d like to be able to have changed, but in a way, if it hadn’t happened, I wouldn’t be who I am today. Life’s a bitch at times, right?
At times? More often than not, I’d say.
You have a point there, twindaddy!
I normally do, but thanks for noticing.