Kailin

I remember my childhood fondly, mainly because my parents made the effort to include us (my bro and I) in everything. We weren’t given lots of material things to play with (toys), but were given experiences instead – going to the beach, fishing, clam-digging, camping, hiking, Disneyland, Universal Studios, family trips, Sunday school, museums, music classes, helping out with the family business, going to the park, kite-flying, growing a garden, raising and owning several pets…the same family experiences I’m trying to share with my own kids.

Now that I’m a parent, I truly realize the magnitude of these experiences. It takes effort to spend quality time with your kids, rather than just giving them an electronic toy to play with. Back then, video games were scarce (mainly in Arcades) and there weren’t very many – Pac Man, Centipede, etc. (yes, I’m That old). Oh, and we had VCRs. LOL.

It’s alright to be sentimental, and it’s great you’ve had a wonderful childhood. Our childhood memories are so fundamental to developing our perspectives in life. To me, it’s alright to be sentimental about our childhoods, but just don’t let your childhood hold you back from becoming an adult, as well – meaning to grow up and have a life, family, career of your own, too. I can write a book here on the importance of reaching into our childhood to help us develop as an adult, but this is just a comment section. So, great topic, as it has got me thinking…

JFo

as i was skimming to see the new blogs today, your picture of the gummy bears caught my eye!! and i had to respond.

the funny thing is, just last week i caught myself doing the same thing. i began youtubing cartoons and commercials from the 80s. (yes i am a product of the 80s). watching the bad quality cartoons got me all nostalgic, and made me remember just how much i loved the tv shows back then. my favorites were rainbow brite, the popples, muppet babies, and even the hugga bunch movie!! i’d love to read those all american girl books, and the baby-sitters club. and as for movies, I dont remember ever really loving one, i just remembered being DEATHLY scared of ET. I cried the entire time it played, as my mother claims. i wish there would be a tv channel set to play all 80s cartoons all the time. that would be rad.

as for having an imagination growing up, i remember that! i remeber having the dollhouses, legos and playing with barbie. we didnt really have video games back then, and we really didnt need them. i feel like kids these days are really missing out.

you arent the only sentimental girl out there. and its hard to realize how fast we age. this was a really good post!! it made my day.

<3 jessicaf

Animator

I’m a ’90s kid. XD This was copied and pasted from another site:

You’re a 90’s kid if:

You can finish this [ice ice _ _ _ _ ]

You remember watching:
-Doug
-Ren & Stimpy
-Pinky and the Brain
-AAAAAAAH Real Monsters!
-Rockos modern Life.

You’ve ever ended a sentence with the word “PSYCHE!”

You just cant resist finishing this . . . “Iiiiiiin west philidelphia born and raised . . .”

You remember:
-TGIF
-Step by Step
-Family Matters
-Dinosaurs
-Boy Meets World.

You remember when it was actually worth getting up early
on a Saturday to watch cartoons.

You got super excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school.

You remember reading “Goosebumps”

You took plastic cartoon lunch boxes to school.

You still get the urge to say “NOT” after (almost) every sentence . . . not

when everyhting was settled by:
-rock paper scissors or
-bubble gum bubble gum in a dish or
-daddy had a donkey inky binky bonky.

when cops and robbers was a daily activity.

when we played Hide and go seek until our legs grew numb.

when we used to obey our parents

You used to listen to the radio all day long just to record your FAVORITE song of ALL time.

“Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?” was both a game and a TV game show.

Captain Planet. He’s a Hero.

You knew that Kimberly, the pink ranger, and Tommy, the green ranger, were meant to be together.

You remember when Super Nintendos and Sega Genisis became popular.

You always wanted to send in a tape to America’s Funniest Home Videos . . . but never taped anything funny.

You remember watching Home Alone 1, 2 , and 3 . . . and tried to pull the pranks on “intruders”

You remember watching:
-The Magic School Bus
-Wishbone
-Reading Rainbow on PBS.

You remember when Yo-Yos were cool.

You remember those Where’s Waldo books.

You remember eating Warheads.

You remember watching:
-the 1st Batman
-Aladdin
-Ninja Turtles
-3 Ninjas movies.

You remember Ring Pops.

You remember drinking Surge, and Tang.

Oh, oh, oh! and JOSTA!!!

If you remember when every thing was “da BOMB!”

When they made the new lunchables so that you could make pizza AND tacos.

You remember boom boxes vs. cd players.

Making those little paper fortune cookie things, and then predicting your life with them.

You played and/or collected “Pogs”

You had at least one Tamagotchi, GigaPet, or Nano and brought it everywhere.

. . . Furbies (yes, we hated them THEN, too).

You haven’t always had a computer, and it was cool to have the internet.

And Windows 95 was the best.

You watched the original cartoons of Rugrats, Power Rangers, and Ninja Turtles.

Michael Jordan was a king.

YIKES pencils and erasers were the stuff!

All your school supplies were “Lisa Frank” brand.

You remember when the new Beanie Babies and Talking Elmo were always sold out.

You collected those Beanie Babies.

Carebears

Gak was the coolest stuff invented.

Lambchop’s song never ended.

The old dollar bills.

Silver dollars, which were cool to have.

You remember a time before the WB.

You collected all the Troll dolls

If you even know what an original walkman is.

You remember wanting to sit on the orange Nickelodeon couch.

You’ve gotten creeped out by “Are You Afraid of the Dark?”

You know the Macarena by heart.

“Talk to the hand” . . . enough said

You always said, “Then why don’t you marry it!”

You went to McDonald’s to play in the playplace.

You remember playing on merry go rounds at the playground.

Before the MySpace frenzy . . .

Before the Internet & text messaging . . .

Before Sidekicks & iPods . . .

Before MIKE JONES . . .

Before PlayStation2 or X-BOX . . .

Before Spongebob . . .

Back when you put off the 5 hours of homework you had every night.

When light up sneakers were cool.

When you rented VHS tapes, not DVDs.

When gas was $0.95 a gallon & Caller ID was a new thing.

When we recorded stuff on VCRs.

When we called the radio station to request songs to hear off of our walkman.

When checking out drawing books and that one book about the rainbow fish from the library was THE cool thing to do.

You had slap braclets!

Way back.

Before we realized all this would eventually disappear.

Who would have thought you’d miss the 90’s so much!!!!!

G

A long, long time ago;in a galaxy far, far away…

I don’t think kids these days have changed all that much. Then again, I grew up in the transitional stage, so I guess things wouldn’t look all that different to me, would they? Lol. I think every generation grows up with its difference than the last ones. Like, those grandparents mentioned probably thought what you think about this generation of kids when they looked at you guys growing up. The kids now will probably think future generations of children have changed values, etc.

Alyssa

I LOVED that show when i was little I would watch it in the morning getting ready for school. I tell people now how much I loved Gummi bears, and their like what? Don’t you mean care bears? That is old school disney channel. Way back before Hannah Montana, there was Gummi bears, The Mickey Mouse Club(I even had a crush on Justin Timberlake back then lol), Moving down a few years there was Boy Meets World, Brotherly Love, Ocean Girl, The Torkelsons, Flash Forward, you’ve got me reminiscing about old school disney(the best days of disney if you ask me). Ahh, those were the good old days. I was also a fan of the disney princess movies. OMG remember the original Power Ranger? My favorite books were about a porcupine, or ferret,(I can’t remember) named Francis.
I could go on and on about this subject, but I should stop here before I get carried away.

The times have changed, back then basically the only electronic distractions were video games and tv, now we have more tv, lots more video games, the computer has taken the world by storm, and just about everyone has or uses one. I kinda feel like kids now a days are being smothered by all the electronics, they aren’t experiencing the same childhood as i did, and I’m only 20, so within the past 10 or so years thing have changed so much.

November Rain

I love the topic btw.. and i think, with the ”Gummi bears” intro in it, made me remember some of my childhood, especially regarding cartoons (they don’t make alot like them anymore) and old tv shows. These times were times of no cares, not alot of responsibilities, lots of playing, stress free, etc.. Times when one ”remembers” makes his/her heart beats fast for longing to these days… And Now….. I GREW UP…. (well i’m not 40 or 50 dah )
I’m 25 and every day that passes and goes is a day that gets away from today, but i’m not sad… I beleive that people should not regret that yesterday is gone (maybe they miss but shouldn’t regret)… Life goes on, and every period in life is worth living, it’s like each period in ur life is a chapter in a book.. Now i’m in a different chapter than that of 5, 10 or 15 years ago…
The gap between my childhood and kids these days is increasing, at least i wanna tallk about those in my country… first of which, not a lot of reading. Kids these days are neglecting or even ”divorcing” reading, they just depend on what they learn at school and from it’s books. Video games has the attention of many kids, they sit around 5 hours on those games everyday… There is a lack of interest in outdoor activities or trips. lots of gaming everyday on the computer leads to ”lack of concentration, attention and slowness in thinking and analyzing ” (scientifically proven). I played some video games, but i didn’t get addicted to it because i knew that there were so many things in Life to do other than that. It’s not that cool to be stuck in a virtual world, it may affect people in lots of ways such as socially or psychologicaly… Also the media is playing a role, the mass entertainment (that i lacked as a young boy) that captures the attentions of many kids, makes them lose interest in reading or going out for even a small walk, not saying that i didn’t watch tv, but there was time for everything, discipline is great (although it’s somehow refreshing to get out of ur system sometimes lol).
I’m not trying to criticize anyone, in the end everyone has the right to choose the path he/she needs in life.
As for my 1st book i read when i was a child was ”Jayne Eyre”, my favorite cartoon was and will always be ”Tom and Jerry”, my favorite tv show (that is a decade or 2 ago) such as magnum pi, knight rider, renegade, highlander, wonder years, superboy..
Peace to all
Ayman Mohsen.

genvixen79@yahoo.com

…ohhh..i had a great one..theres no ristrictions at all, at 6 yrs.old ive been to mountains w/ my cousins 3yrs older than me..we’ll get fruits like guavas,blackberries..i remember eating on top of the tree sitting to its branches while picking one by one to eat them..oh that was so much fun…that was like we’ll leave at home early morning then come back late noon w/ sacks of fruits..yeah really sacks of fruits..then during rainy days , we’ll go and swim to this little river near our house..so much fun..

Marilyne

You’re not alone, me too! aaaa Cinderella how cute was the prince uh? I also find that we had such a different childhood compared to today’s children, but I don’t know if it’s for the better… I miss The Smurfs!

Jessica_M

Ooohhhh I loved The Gummy Bears I also remember watching The Smurfs and The Snorks!! As well as The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Magilla Gorilla, and all the Hanna-Barbera cartoons. That was some good TV back then. I definetely miss it.