We all have had very different childhoods. But there were a lot of similarities. Regardless of where or how you grew up.
There are things that all kids have in common. Like destroying their erasers with the tip of pencils. Or pretending to smoke when the air outside is cold.
It’s stuff we all did but never talked about. But we are going to definitely remember. And you’re definitely going to say: “That was SOOOOOO me as a kid!”
Here are 50 weird things you did as a kid and forgot about because no one talks about it:
1) 5-Year-Old vs. Calculator
Your calculator is supposed to know. But the calculators we used, they didn’t know. E… what the hell is that?
There are still likely many adults that do this. The basement is a large, usually dark, space. It’s the kind of place where things can lurk.
This is more like a back float. But if you really wanted to play dead, you’d do a dead man’s float. Still, no one cared. They knew you were fine.
Some kids experiment with smoking very early on. But not with cigarettes. With the smoke that forms when you blow outward when it’s cold outside.
When we’re kids, we’re told that gum isn’t digestible. And that if you swallow it, it will sit in your stomach for seven years. So, you’d freak out when you accidentally swallow it.
We all had these multicolored pens as kids. But they didn’t last long. That’s because we tried to push all the buttons at once so that it would draw with all of the colors. It wasn’t supposed to work like that.
“I’m telling” was an oft-heard phrase during childhood. And many children feared that phrase. It made some children power-mad.
It must have been out of boredom. But for some reason, we loved to destroy our erasers as a kid. We’d do it by piercing it over and over with a pencil.
Nothing was more critical in childhood than not being a rotten egg. You’d propel yourself into breakneck speed just to avoid it. No one wants to be the rotten egg.
10) Middle School Excalibur
You never encountered a force like the first time you tried to force two magnets to touch. The sheer force was just incredible. It’s like trying to pull the sword from the stone.
Taking apart your pen and putting it back together is something that you’d do over and over again in class. It was like you were a mechanic. It was serious work.
If you had a hair clip like this, then you did this to your face. You would hold it there to see how long you could stand it. Sometimes it would leave weird marks on your face.
One of the most dangerous things you can do as a kid is awakening your father from a couch slumber. The slightest move could trigger his awakening. Like trying to change the channel.
One of the funnest things about childhood is creating a fort from pillows and blankets. It was like a magical place and your own secret hideaway. And regardless of how it looked, it felt like a castle.
The best snacks were never at your house. They were always at your friends house. So, this was heartbreaking when it would happen.
There’s nothing like the freedom of riding a bike. You felt like you had an entire gang of your own when you were riding that bike. You knew where everyone was by whose lawn the bikes were on.
All schools had walls like this. And we all did this to the walls with our finger. Why were the dips finger-sized if they didn’t want us to do this.
Parents just don’t hand over bags of concetrated sugar and dye anymore. But they did back in the day. Especially on hot summer days.
LMAO! This is just too damn funny. This is the EXACT face you would be making when you were begging to stop being mimicked and you lost your mind and couldn’t handle it anymore. Older siblings were mimicking masters.
20) Mac and Cheese Destiny
On some days, everything aligns. Some days, everything just falls together. This was one of those days.
How deathly afraid were you to swallow a seed as a kid? Probably very. That’s because someone told you a plant would grow inside you if you ate one.
Things would get out of hand at some point when you have siblings. It would be funny until someone got hurt. Then you’d have to answer to mom.
23) Speed Shopping Cart Racer
You felt like a speedy champion when your mom let you steer the shopping cart. Those hairpin aisle turns… crazy. You could get to the cereal aisle faster than anyone in that store.
Before there was autotune, there was blowing into a fan. If gave you a very similar sound effect. Kids did it for hours.
Kids looked like they were propelling on the side of a building when they were at the pool. You didn’t realize you were doing this. But you know you totally did this.
Remember pretending to take shots as a kid? For some reason we felt a soda cap was the equivalent to a full shot. We’d pour soda into it.
Some of us were hide and seek masters. No one would ever detect us. We’d just be laughing in the dark.
Kids can turn anything into a toy. Including a clothing rack. You’d hide on the inside on it.
The playground was a fun as a kid. It could also be really dangerous. And really painful.
All kids played “the floor is lava” game. Whether it was on the living room couches. Or tiles at the grocery store.
There has to be a name for these things. I have no idea what it is though. But I do know that it does helicopter sh*t.
Paper towel cardboard tubes were a magical thing when you were a kid. They could be transformed into anything. A weapon, a megaphone, a hearing device… just about anything.
Being forced to say “hi” to people as a kid was torture. You only wanted to say “hi” when you felt like it. You just never felt like it.
Climbing up the stairs was a full body effort as a kid. You needed to use your hands and legs to get up those stairs. For no reason at all.
Having to say “thank you” was just as bad as having to say “hi.” Except much worse. You had to lie because you probably didn’t even like the birthday present.
What was the first car racing game? It wasn’t video games. It was playing on this rug with your toy cars and trucks.
Every kid has had to witness their friend’s parents yelling at them. And it’s super awkward. It’s almost worse than when your own parents yell at you.
Back in the day, we didn’t have emojis to express how we feel. We had these markers. They are basically stamp emojis.
Peddle to the shin. It was the worst feeling ever. Why do they put spikes on those things?
We all drew these in our notebooks. But what the hell are they? Is there a name for this thing?
Eating candy is supposed to be a pleasurable thing. But that wasn’t always the case with a Blow Pop. Sometimes you’d unsuspectingly cut your tongue on their lollipops.
Sticky hands were fun to watch. They were like $.25 out of the machine at the grocery store. It would be covered in hair and dirt by the end of the day.
We all thought that quicksand would be the death of us as children. Boy, were we wrong! We had no idea about taxes, or annoying family, and other people and things that would be thrust upon us when we were forced into this world.
It doesn’t matter what was wrong with you. If you weren’t feeling well these are the things your parents gave you to feel better. It was the stay at home from school special.
How do moms have magical finding powers? Someone how they would always find items that were lost. It’s some kind of mom super power.
As least kids try to put themselves in other people’s shoes. You’d hold your hands out and see what you could feel. It would only last a minute or so.
In the 80s, parents used to let their kids sip wine or beer. Just so they could learn how actually gross it is. But we still lied and pretended it tasted good.
When the TV show
MASH came on, it was time for bed. All the family shows were over. It was time for the depressing adult show about war.
Kids used to make up lots of rhymes as a kid. Some of them were hurtful. Sorry boys.
Upward slide running was quite the feat as a child. If you could do it, you had some serious skill. Some serious upward slide running skills.
