I know I've written about this before, but it just keeps coming up!
You see stuff all the time about people wishing they could be kids again, they don't want to be grown ups any more, and weren't those the good old days?
Do you people even remember childhood? Having no control over your own life, being expected to blindly obey just because you were smaller than the other people you lived with, being punished for stuff someone else did because the adults didn't believe you? Any of this ringing any bells?
And that's people with ordinary childhoods! What about kids who were forced to hang wet laundry in freezing cold weather, or who were locked out of their houses on a regular basis but couldn't leave their yards? How about the kids who got smacked upside the head for no particular reason, or who got woken up during the night by drunk parents? Or the kids who got beaten with switches/belts/riding crops for minor infractions?
No. Childhood was a nightmare. You couldn't pay me to do that again.
I hope my kids have no idea what I'm talking about when they read this, after they're grown. But they will probably understand some of it.
