What’s a ridiculous thing you couldn’t do as a child but can now?

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_rayn3r_@reddit

naping, i used to never nap as a child, even as a baby i cut my naps very early according to my parents, but now i feel like i need a 3hr nap everyday 😭

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ClimbsNFlysThings@reddit

Eating when I'm hungry not at a set tine

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Consistent-Theory681@reddit

Yes, I'm spending a lot of time with my elderly mother as she's not well and the set times for meals is something still ingrained in her, I end up having to leave it in the microwave to eat later.

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ClimbsNFlysThings@reddit

Finishing your plate and eating irrespective of being hungry, two habits which can stay in the past

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Consistent-Theory681@reddit

I totally agree. However, my parents came from impoverished backgrounds so I recognise this was an ingrained behaviour.

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nikky0x@reddit

Have pudding without finishing all my dinner.

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londonbrewer77@reddit

If you don’t eat your meat you can’t have any pudding!

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New_Vegetable_3173@reddit

Meat is the best bit of the main, I don't know where that saying came from given usually it's the veg that kids won't eat

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Business_Act_127@reddit

Pink Floyd, Brick in the Wall part 3.

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londonbrewer77@reddit

I think it’s very much the school meat, so probably not great.

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londonbrewer77@reddit

I think it’s very much the school meat, so probably not great.

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New_Vegetable_3173@reddit

Ever tried Yorkshire pudding as a dessert? I haven't but am now thinking this would be a good idea

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I haven't but my mum would always make a macaroni milk pudding dish as a kid. Basically it was rice pudding but using pasta instead. Lol , even now I look at macaroni cheese and think it's just wrong!

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Booboodelafalaise@reddit

I still make macaroni pudding, it’s one of our favourites. Full cream milk and lots of cinnamon and nutmeg, it’s pure comfort food. I didn’t realise it wasn’t much eaten these days?

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FlippedHope@reddit

Wow this sounds good. I'm going to have to try this!

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New_Vegetable_3173@reddit

Your mum was very creative

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Draigdwi@reddit

Makes sense. I’ll try this way. Normally l don’t like them.

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New_Vegetable_3173@reddit

I think you'd want to add some sugar to the mixture to make it sweet like scotch pancake mix

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Dagnabit_sundae@reddit

My grandad has left over Yorkshire puddings with Jam, not tried it myself but he enjoys it.

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WillowCreekWanderer@reddit

They're made from the same sort of batter as pancakes so that would make sense tbh

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heyitsed2@reddit

Have pudding for dinner!

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drPmakes@reddit

Have pudding for breakfast.

My birthday treat was eating ice cream for brekky and insisting I would do it everyday as a grown up.

Also only eating what I want when I want...the only real perk of being an adult!

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WillowCreekWanderer@reddit

Or for breakfast!

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NobleKorhedron@reddit

You sound like Luna Lovegood!😉🤣

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Mundane_Pea4296@reddit

Cake for breakfast

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Watchkeys@reddit

And for pudding after dinner. That's why the 'individual' puddings come in 2 packs.

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heyitsed2@reddit

Oh that makes a lot more sense! I've been having second pudding all these years.

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SelectTrash@reddit

I told my mum as a kid that I would have it every day when I'm older

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Cotton-Collar@reddit

Bills does unlimited pancakes for £5 when you buy a drink on Fridays so every other month or so we go for "breakfast for dinner" and just eat shit loads of pancakes for dinner

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sbaldrick33@reddit

Steady on, there, you nutter.

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RedHal@reddit

If you don't eat your meat you can't have any pudding! How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat!?

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trippykitsy@reddit

How can ye have any pudding if ye don't eat yur meat?

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Harvsnova3@reddit

Jesus! That triggered a memory of teenage me watching this on a loop, with all my mates in the 80's. By about the third loop we were totally ripped and babbling shite to each other..... well, more shite than normal. I can't even smell weed without retching now.

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trippykitsy@reddit

I used to listen to it on loop on the bus to school!

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Harvsnova3@reddit

Brilliant album. When I have to take painkillers for my knackered old back, I put Comfortably Numb on my headphones and zone out while they kick in.

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Nolsoth@reddit

Brought the album on vinyl for my dad's 70th recently on the insistence of my oldest sister that it was dads favorite.

Turns out he only brought that record years ago (and played it a lot) because my oldest sister would go to sleep to comfortably numb lol.

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Drussthelegend2484@reddit

Lovely little Pink Floyd reference.

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parklife980@reddit

YOO! YES YOO BEHAIND THE BIKE SHED! STAND STILL LADDIE!

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featurenotabug@reddit

Shh, you'll have the pudding police after you

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chrisl182@reddit

Always room for a bit of pud

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Cautious-Carrot-1111@reddit

Have pudding for breakfast

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thesaharadesert@reddit

Have pudding without having a dinner first!

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New_Vegetable_3173@reddit

Actually dessert then main means people eat less overall calories

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BismarkBogmark@reddit

Eat an egg white without gagging!

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YouDontLookDead@reddit

I love leaving a household chore until later or the next day. I used to have a big old list of chores that had to be completed in the hour between my getting home from school and my mother getting home from work.

Shockingly, all does not collapse if the washing up is left for a couple hours

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Consistent-Theory681@reddit

My elderly mother, still cooks which is great because she eats healthy, but insists she washes up after cooking, but before eating.

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YouDontLookDead@reddit

But she's missing the nice and hot fresh meal window!!

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CosmoPrincess@reddit

Yes! I now clean when things need to be cleaned, rather than stressing out every Saturday morning trying to get everything done before I could start my weekend.

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Specific-Sundae2530@reddit

Wasn't allowed to drink from a can, my mum always made us use a straw

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Consistent-Theory681@reddit

That's just cruel, Special Brew through a straw sounds awful.

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tuskel373@reddit

But.. why?

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Specific-Sundae2530@reddit

She thought it was common to drink straight from the can. My whole childhood was full of such bs rules

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4nn4s3@reddit

Eating what I want when I want 🤣

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Harvsnova3@reddit

That comes with the flip side of having to shop for, decide on and cook every meal for the rest of your life though.

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sunkistandsudafed3@reddit

It is a frustration of mine, but what I can also do as an adult is go out for my tea or have a take away when I dont feel like cooking.

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4nn4s3@reddit

That’s life

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TytoCwtch@reddit

Have a roast dinner for breakfast.

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Consistent-Theory681@reddit

Roast potatoes the next day are heaven for breakfast.

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TransatlanticMadame@reddit

Not go to church!

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-myeyeshaveseenyou-@reddit

Oh yes good one!! I’m Irish, every week until I moved out at 18 I was in church. Once we overslept on Easter and still had to watch mass on tv. Since moving out 24 years ago I’ve only been in churches for weddings, funerals, christenings etc, and I’m sure I’m a bitter disappointment to my father for not baptising my own kids. On another annoying note my mother stopped going to church with us when her dad died when I was 5, so that pissed me off a lot as well.

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SelectTrash@reddit

I'm Irish too, I hated church and they hated me for asking too many questions. I left it when I got kicked out at 16

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-myeyeshaveseenyou-@reddit

Yeh my sister got in trouble in school for asking if humans evolved from monkeys and god made us in the image of himself, did that not mean god was a monkey. I don’t think she was factoring in creationism as we were raised to believe in evolution.

My own son is just about 13 and does religion in school currently, we live in England now so it’s not as bad as religion in Ireland but was very pleased to have parent teacher evening last week to hear that the teacher really values him in class because he offers alternative opinions while still respecting others choices.

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FraggleGoddess@reddit

Yes! My mum made me go until I was 16 (my Dad had negotiated between us that I could decide then, so I stopped immediately).

A decade or so later, after a few more non-religious partners and after both her parents had passed, she finally agreed with me it's all bullshit and stopped going.

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MaxMouseOCX@reddit

Decide I don't want dinner at all, and then eat cake instead.

How I'm not at all fat is beyond me, I think my "don't care" level directly counters any excess calories...

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Glozboy@reddit

Choose my friends.

I was a shy kid and the school set me up with a 'confident' kid to be my friend. He was a pain and I was stuck with him for years because my parents thought we were good friends. He got in contact a few years ago and I told him I wasn't interested.

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BrilliantClarity@reddit

Not having to go to church everyday Sunday

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Moppo_@reddit

For a long time I didn't realise people still did that here. The only people I'd heard of/seen going to church (other than with the school at Christmas) was Americans on TV.

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buginarugsnug@reddit

Go abroad. My mum wouldn’t fly so we always just had holidays in the UK, usually the Lake District or Scotland.

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Balnagask@reddit

Have 2, yes TWO chocolate biscuits 😂

And control of "the presser" which is what my Dad called the TV remote 🤣

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becca413g@reddit

I frequently made my way to school wishing I could just wonder along with my eyes closed. Now I can because since having some sight loss I now use a long cane. When it’s cold and raining I sometimes use this fact to make me feel like I’m in a better position to those forced to keep their sleepy eyes open in their warm dry cars! 🤣👩‍🦯

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AbsolutelyWingingIt@reddit

For me? Skiing.

Grew up with not a lot of money and was jealous when friends and their families went, as well as those that could afford to go on the school ski trip.

Now I can afford to go every year and it’s my favourite activity in the world.

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Vast-Aardvark5857@reddit (OP)

I love skiing and forever grateful my parents took us for lessons. They saved so hard to let us do that

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AbsolutelyWingingIt@reddit

That’s awesome! Learning to ski as an adult was testing 😂

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Tigermasterdude@reddit

I think it's funny that you hated the middle seat, I take three girls to football training and they fight over the middle seat because one of them perceives it to be the best!

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MouseEmotional813@reddit

It's the safest in an accident - providing everyone is wearing seatbelts

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problematic_coffee@reddit

I have heard this as well. Despite hating the middle seat as a kid, I developed anxiety at a young age and somehow found this out on the internet and would only sit in the middle for a while. Thankfully, I’m better now.

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problematic_coffee@reddit

Same with the middle seat. I’m the youngest sibling too and was always forced to sit there. However now at 23, I’m the tallest sibling with the longest legs so I got them right back! It’s physically uncomfortable for me to sit there in most cars so that’s my excuse.

Also staying up late. I’m a natural night owl and nowadays i wish i could get to bed earlier.

Being allowed my own glass of wine instead of a teeny tiny sip of my mum’s glass (i was curious so she let me try it occasionally).

Not having to ask to do things. It still hurts my brain that I’m allowed to go into town without asking (teenager me would have been thrilled)

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abracablab@reddit

Eat whatever I want out of the cupboards/fridge/freezer. I had to ask for every tiny thing when I was a kid and there were special foods and drinks that were off limits because they were just for my parents. There were also foods that just never entered our home because my mum didn't like them. It was also the age of everyone believing cheaper or low fat = better. Now I get to eat the real butter, Yorkshire puddings(?!), full fat greek yoghurt, better quality fruit and veg.

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dit_dit_dit@reddit

I get to do whatever I want at the weekend instead of whatever my parents want to do or spending it at my elderly grandparent's. I'm 45 years old and I'm still grateful lol

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ooooomikeooooo@reddit

Ha. As a parent this couldn't be further from the truth. I spent yesterday ferrying the kids back and forth from their dance classes (4 trips, first one at 8am). Afternoon spent in the garden playing their games and then McDonald's for tea.

If I was doing what I wanted to do I'd have had a nice lie in, played some golf, watched some football, gone for a run, gone to the pub etc.

We spend way more of our weekend doing what the kids want to do than doing what we want to do.

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lelpd@reddit

This is where helpful grandparents excel. My in-laws will babysit for us Saturday or Sunday so we can go do our thing without dragging the kids along.

I wouldn’t have had a second kid if it wasn’t for how much easier my in-laws made the first by helping out.

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WittyActuator3587@reddit

It’s great that you’re so willing to encourage your children’s interests. My parents wouldn’t take me to any activities at the weekend apart from church as it was too much commitment and they wanted to use their weekends for other things

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HmNotToday1308@reddit

Things have changed. My parents didn't give a single fuck about what anyone wanted to do unless it was what they wanted.

Where I lived there was this absolutely massive playground and I never once went there. We did however go to church... When they were sober.

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heartpassenger@reddit

Things are a lot more kid centric than they used to be! My parents were religious so weekends were spent at church or at a church event. Even now I thank my lucky stars as an adult I get to do non religious things on a weekend! All my friends with kids do seem to centre their lives around the kids’ interests, so it seems times have changed.

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Dutch_Slim@reddit

Whereas I feel like I spent years doing what my parents wanted, and now everything is what my kids want to do. I’m looking forward to them being 18 lol

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fiddlybuttons@reddit

Wear my superhero costumes in public

YOUR SHAME IS YOUR OWN, MOTHER!!!

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IDoMathsNotMath@reddit

I'm so sorry you weren't allowed to do that.

One of my mum's favourite stories is of when she went to visit her best friend in the hospital after having a baby, I went too. 4 year old me was obsessed with Fireman Sam and had a really good costume (including a plastic helmet with wool stuck on to imitate his cowlick). I refused to wear anything else to visit the baby, so mum took Fireman Sam to meet him. She must have been mortified.

Much more recently I saw a dad and his son walk down the street past my house and the kid was dressed as Deadpool. They walk past my house most weekends so I don't think they were on their way to a party. The little Deadpool made me smile.

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Klutzy_Award1786@reddit

Existing in quiet & peace, the minute someone was awake the TV was on, even if it wasn't being watched & it stayed on all day & evening until the last adult was in bed. They also spoke ALL the time but very rarely actually said anything, it was all just noise for the sake of it & felt suffocating. Also the ability to choose who I have in my home & who I associate with, the whole extended family hated each other but they were so involved in each other's daily lives because 'thats what family does', I cut all but one member of the family off 20 years ago & have never regretted the decision

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Incompletecompletely@reddit

I live alone and I can't even articulate how nice it is to have no background TV on. I love music too but sometimes it's so nice to just have nothing

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ElectronicCoat5521@reddit

I agree, my parents always had 24/7 news on like sky news! Used to drive me insane.

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morbid909@reddit

The home and personal space one is major. There’s exactly one handful of people that ever get to come inside my house and I love it that way. It’s a sanctuary and it’s exactly how I like it.

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BluelunarStar@reddit

My mum had severe OCD. I wasn’t allowed to touch the walls of the shower, so it seems such a win everytime I do lol.

I also wasn’t allowed to touch anything in the kitchen without washing my hands. Not just preparing food, just grabbing a knife? Wash hands. Just washed them but touched something before entering the kitchen? Wash them again.

So I’ll often grab a snack or something & think “Huh, that’s cool, no handwashing!”

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garfartkle@reddit

A cartwheel!

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Used_Platform_3114@reddit

Leave the house as many times as I want in a day without having to explain my actions to anyone.

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Champagne_Bunnny@reddit

I was gonna say that one too. Just being able to do what I want without having to explain it to anyone.

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Jigglypuffs_quiff@reddit

Live in a dog free house . It's bliss.

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Champagne_Bunnny@reddit

For me it the opposite, my parents wouldn't have pets in the house.

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Revolutionary-Rub231@reddit

Being able to buy myself things I want instead of having to wait til my bday or xmas to get it as a present.

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Nemariwa@reddit

We've more of less stopped buying presents for adults in my family because it's just accepted if we wanted it we'd have already brought it.

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Champagne_Bunnny@reddit

Same in our family

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aspieringnerd@reddit

Buy what I want as long as I have the money and space. Weirdly enough, now I'm an adult, I have a lot more interest in toys and things geared towards kids than when I was one. If I had the room and funds, I'd happily deck my house with Lego, funko pops and build a bear!

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Miserable_Future6694@reddit

Be bored.

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CosmoPrincess@reddit

Cutting the crusts off my bread to make toast. I stopped eating toast when I moved out, until one day I realised I was a grown up and if I wanted to cut my crusts off, nobody could stop me. Been enjoying my crustless toast slathered in butter ever since.

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Travels_Belly@reddit

Great question! I think more people should appreciate being an adult but having fun with it. Some people spend all their youth wishing they were an adult because you could do whatever you wanted but they finally get there only to trade it in because of social convention and some mistaken belief they have to be sensible. I love being silly and doing inventive things and never forgot how to play. If I am getting told to act my age then I feel like I'm on the right track.

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Ambivalent-Axolotl@reddit

I permanently have a thing of bubble mix in my bag to make sure I never stop being silly!

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Travels_Belly@reddit

haha You are officially in the awesome club. I would defo offer you entry into my pillow fort.

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Ambivalent-Axolotl@reddit

Hell yeah!

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Sm0keytrip0d@reddit

I'm 34 and the youngest of 3 and still stuck in the middle seat if we're only taking one car 😭

More insulting is we all drive so we can multi car to places but noooooo.

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gameofdecimals@reddit

Just drive your own car buddy, life is too short for middle seat :)

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Sm0keytrip0d@reddit

Usually if it's a family thing I offer to then I'm just met with "oh but what if you want a drink", "what about parking", "what about petrol" etc.

It's honestly easier to just suck it up and sit in the middle when it comes to my family lol.

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Warm_Stress_1654@reddit

Once in a blue moon we'd buy in fish and chips for tea and I would chance my arm - can we have ice-cream for afters? No, you cannot have ice-cream after fish and chips. I just took this as being part of my mother's general policy against anyone ever having too much fun all at once but I kept asking until one time she replied - I don't want us all to have heart attacks. At this point, my father got involved and asked how she reckoned that was a risk. She explained that fish and chips is very greasy and puts all fat in your arteries. Then if you eat something very cold it will go hard and a heart attack is when your arteries harden.

Right, he said and sent me to get four bowls and spoons and my brother to get the ice cream out of the freezer.

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UpsetIllustrator7@reddit

Thank you for sharing this amazing story. Your dad’s part there cracks me up!

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JessicaEccles76@reddit

Not have to exist in a toxic fug of cigarette smoke and ash because my dad would have an absolute shit fit if anyone asked him not to smoke

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QuickSpace3289@reddit

I'm 5'2 and at 40 years old... I'm still in the damned middle seat!

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Vast-Aardvark5857@reddit (OP)

Oh no why?😆

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DoughnutMaestro@reddit

5’1 and 43 next week, I get the best seat every time. Disabled perks lol

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toonlass91@reddit

Still have to squish into the back occasionally. Sometimes we get a lift to the football if our minibus is unavailable, being the youngest (except one who is not always there due to work) and smallest it’s still me.

For me things I can do is just go out for a walk or whatever when I want to. Don’t have to tell people where I’m going

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AdAccomplished8342@reddit

Reading these comments is making me realize how privileged my childhood was. Even the chores and routines I had as a child are things I miss and actively seek as an adult to make me feel stable.

Activities were varied and interesting (loved the museum and nature walks and crafts to learn the names of all the plants and skills to fix things). If anything I miss my parents organizing those whereas now I have to find and organize those for myself.

The only thing I am happy about is not having to share space and interact with my sister.

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Vast-Aardvark5857@reddit (OP)

I do like that my parents held me accountable for cleaning 😂 it’s a pro and a con sometimes that no one is making me clean the house. Everyone is always telling me that I have to have more than one kid as the kid will miss out on siblings, I love my siblings but I know it’s not the same for everyone. Sounds like your parents took you to some interesting places!

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Spare_Tyre1212@reddit

Click my fingers 🫰

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Mysterious_County154@reddit

Speak after 10pm

Parents would go to bed and then the house would have to be dead quiet, not even a pin drop. I still had to do this when I was as old as 18. Fucking hated it

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AreaMiserable9187@reddit

I can get up whenever I want on a weekend. Not this whole “get up at 8am in case you waste it” let me waste it in bed!

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manual_typewriter@reddit

Say no to sprouts.

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AhhGingerKids2@reddit

I have a take on this - when I was you get I always wanted the stuff that turns your bath into a jelly like slime. Never got it. A few months ago my 5 year old asked for it. Very proudly said yes. It was awful! It never really got to the jelly quality and was more like watered down slime. It got absolutely everywhere and made the bathroom a deathtrap. 2/10. 1-0 to my parents.

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pixeltash@reddit

I now have Mr Freeze money, yet am old enough to know I do not want a Mr freeze toy and it would be a major pain to make slush with.

Similar to your story, I give you bath crayons. Nope nope nope, used once and child is now an adult, bath still wears an odd tinge in places.

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tuskel373@reddit

Aw, this made me smile! 😄

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Hungry_B4I8@reddit

Heroin

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SelfSufficientHub@reddit

Tell people to fuck off

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pixeltash@reddit

In a similar vein, deciding who I want to spend time with.

I'm disabled and in my 50s and the sheer luxury of not having to spend 8 hours a day pretending to be nice to people I don't like. Teachers, other children, work colleagues and members of the public.

It's a very very small group of people I want to be with in person, the ability to simply not be with the others is blissful.

Also getting into my little old lady stage, of not giving a flying fuck about being socially polite, nice and early.

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Echo2045@reddit

Deciding what to have for dinner

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DoughnutMaestro@reddit

That’s great until you’re a mum and wife and the only one who cooks (husband once served rice with super thick bisto gravy a beef burger perched on top and a fried egg, it’s been 16 years and he’s still not allowed to cook) an you’ve had to pick and plan every meal for a decade and a half and the only suggestion you get when you ask what people want is “whatever is easiest for you”

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tuskel373@reddit

Gosh, I feel this 😅 I have had to decide what's for dinner for 20 years, and I'm TIRED 😅

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Worried_Suit4820@reddit

Or 'we can just have a salad if that's easier'. No it isn't actually.

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Henno212@reddit

Enjoy going to bed early

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Various-Flower510@reddit

Lol i get terrible car sickness and i always had to sit in the middle seat so i could see the road🤣 my dad was fed up of me sicking all over the car whenever we went somewhere lol so i used to sit in the middle seat and stare at the road with some mad intensity🤣 now i sit in the passenger seat (cuz im a wee passenger princess💁‍♀️) and still stare at the road🤣

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Nemariwa@reddit

Listen to "parent advisory" music. Eminem or Limp Biskit had to be hidden from my siblings less I be a bad influence. But listening to Another Level's Freak Me or similar pop songs was fine.

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Warriorz7@reddit

At primary school we weren't allowed water at our desks, even on really hot days we were expected to just have a drink at lunch and break time. Teachers drank endless cups of tea, crazy to think about now.

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dit_dit_dit@reddit

I always get to sleep in a bed instead of the one who has to get the pull down sofa or the floor!

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bookishnatasha89@reddit

Ahhh yes. My parents always went on narrow boat holidays when I was growing up, which meant aside from around 3 or 4 times, I was sleeping on the bed that was the kitchen table during the day. Which would mean being woken up every single morning by the boat moving or one of them walking up and down the boat.

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wintermag@reddit

Yes! I was saying this to my mum the other day. I got the reputation in the family that I’m always tired/sleeping. No, it’s because I’m always expected to stay up as late as the last person going to bed AND get up as early as the first person rising in the morning. Sometimes this meant as little as 4 hours sleep!

I’m so glad to book my own hotel room when it’s suggested I can just take the sofa bed.

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trippykitsy@reddit

too many siblings?

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dit_dit_dit@reddit

Not even that, more like why book more rooms when we can just let the youngest deal with it yay

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RobCarrol75@reddit

Middle seat? That's luxury. I remember sitting in the footwell of the passenger seat as all the other seats were full.

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runningonburritos@reddit

Child of the 80s here- I remember two of us in the boot on occasion (parcel shelf removed) because all the seats were taken.

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rositree@reddit

That was the prized seat for us as kids. Sit in the boot, waving at driver's behind you.

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TheMonkeyInCharge@reddit

I remember sleeping laying on the backseat late at night heading home from long family visits. Fell in the footwells a few times when dad braked suddenly. Amazing we survived.

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BigAd8725@reddit

My mum used to have a Volvo and the boot was enormous, she'd chuck us back there and loop a bungee cord around us and attach it to the walls 😂 in hindsight there's so many red flags there but I made it!

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Spicymargx@reddit

My dad had a van and I was often in the footwell or the back

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SelectTrash@reddit

I was in the boot a few times lol

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Icy_Intern1364@reddit

Sometimes I just pull a sickie and take a day off work to go fuck around doing whatever I want. My mum went mental when I tried to get out of school.

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darthpaul1978@reddit

Opt out of going to church.

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split-tennisball@reddit

Have consensual sex

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-Intrepid-Path-@reddit

Is this really the place to trauma dump?

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Sm0keytrip0d@reddit

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Kizzieuk@reddit

*Hug* I feel you.

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bluejeansseltzer@reddit

You weren’t allowed?

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SituationMundane5452@reddit

Wow

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garbled_ahh_replies@reddit

get along with my brothers lol

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LeadershipAble773@reddit

Cherryade lol. It made us kids hyper so my mom didnt let us have it (probably also because of the amount of artificial colourings and stuff in it). When I was 16 I went to my boyfriends house and his mom offered me cherryade- i text my mom to say I was having it and therr was nothing she could do about it 😅

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cookycookie88@reddit

Nice food

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New_Vegetable_3173@reddit

Eating Ben and Jerry's in the middle of the day just because

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SelectTrash@reddit

I love Ben & Jerry’s which one is your fave?!

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Jigglypuffs_quiff@reddit

Phish food

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SelectTrash@reddit

I love Phish food too

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New_Vegetable_3173@reddit

Half baked because I can't decide which of those 2 is my favourite lol. How about you?

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SelectTrash@reddit

Yes, that's the best flavour in my opinion

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YouDontLookDead@reddit

The little treasures of adult existence

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New_Vegetable_3173@reddit

I loved introducing my parents to it - they'd never eaten ice cream out of the tub before. I thought they'd be judgmental but they loved it

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YouDontLookDead@reddit

Well that just levelled this up to wholesome as fuck

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New_Vegetable_3173@reddit

Aaw thanks. Yes it made me really happy.

It's so hard to find things to connect on when boomers have right wing views and generally unaware of wider world issues /aren't awake/ don't think colonialism is bad etc.

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No-Cost-1045@reddit

Ben and Jerry's for breakfast on a scorching hot day is amazing!!!

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Incompletecompletely@reddit

Spendung money on stickers and trinkets and anything frivolous I want (after my bills etc are paid)

Being able to get a McDonald's or sweets whenever I want

Being able to go to bed and get up whenever I want (especially on weekends)

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MteQmcC@reddit

Die in unexplained circumstances especially since 2020 where 4.5 million of us have died. Actually accordingly

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West_Guarantee284@reddit

If we go anywhere as a family, like out for lunch, brother in law drives, my dad sits in the front and me, my older sister and my neice are in the back. My sister gets the middle seat. I see it as payback for all the times I was squished in because I was the smallest and the youngest.

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prodjex@reddit

Listen to and follow advice properly - I still don’t understand why I (like 99.9% of kids, it seems) always battled someone when they were trying to help.
Embrace fear - fear controlled so much of my childhood and stopped me from experiencing, accomplishing and generally enjoying so much stuff. As an adult, I’ve realised that fear makes things considerably more enjoyable. No better feeling that roaring up to a corner on a dirt bike and refusing to brake until you “see God”, as Kevin Schwantz would say.
Have new things. Younger sibling here, so 99.9% of my clothes (undies making up the 0.1%), books, toys, etc were handmedowns from my brother. As an adult, I’ve learned that one of the best feelings in the world is a pair of brand new socks. It’s no wonder why Geezer Butler always asked for a new pair of socks on his rider for every Black Sabbath show.

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DisMyLik18thAccount@reddit

Lie in on the weekend

Saturday And Sunday mornings were for religious activities, so combined with school I had to set an alarm and get up for something every single day of the week, which at the time I found kinda frustrating.
I Always wanted just one day where I didn't have to set an alarm or be anywhere

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Ohtherewearethen@reddit

Eating Easter eggs for breakfast and eating them all in one day if I bloody well want to. Same for selection boxes at Christmas. Eating tea in front of the tele if that's what I felt like.

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DisMyLik18thAccount@reddit

Drink full fat coke

My mum said ould only let us have diet or zero sugar pop

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Spicymargx@reddit

I grew up in the era of Holly and Jessica, Millie Dowler, etc. and my mum never let me play out on the street. I love being able to go where I want when I want now.

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journey1710@reddit

I basically lived of kraft mac & cheese, 2 min noodles & cola for a year after moving out of my parents vegan-no-processed-food home 😅

They still have a special nostalgia in my heart, but thankfully (I guess) it's hard to buy proper KD & Ichiban where I live, so I eat normal now.

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uhohspagbol@reddit

My mum always had quite odd rules around food e.g we were allowed golden nuggets cereal on holiday, but not coco pops, even though I'm 99% sure golden nuggets had way more sugar.

Anyway, one particular rule was we weren't allowed wagon wheels. So my brother and I were always insanely curious and jealous of our friends who got them in their pack lunches. Finally tried one years later and realised they were basically flattened teacakes... something my mum was absolutely ok with us having as a treat!

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DisMyLik18thAccount@reddit

Put posters of celebrities up on the wall

Since moving out from my parents my bedroom has always looked like a teenagers room, but that's because I wasn't allowed to decorate it how I wanted then so I make up for it now

My mum wouldn't let me out posters of my favourite musicians/actors up because it was 'idolising them'

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riotlady@reddit

Eat on the sofa! I have an old blanket on our sofa and my kids often eat breakfast and lunch there (as do I, am 33 and it still feels thrilling lol)

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littlehamster_@reddit

I can buy and eat a birthday cake any time I want.

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SelectTrash@reddit

It's someone's birthday somewhere

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Trash_Panda_Leaves@reddit

Cry. I was always told off for being upset and crying or if I sat in my room going "its not fair ragh ragh ragh" my Mum would listen in, wait for me to calm then slam open the door and then belittle and shame me and get up in my face.

Now when I'm upset I have the space to cry or complain to myself. For now at least.

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Current_Fly9337@reddit

This hits home. My son talks to himself a lot so if he has a little rant, I might listen in but when he leaves his room, or usually the bathroom (he loves a shower rant), I ask if he wants to talk. Sometimes he doesn’t so I’ll just ask for a hug and then we naturally just discuss whatever is going on.

My feelings were never acknowledged growing up. I can tell him he’s wrong, and why, but still acknowledge the way he feels about the situation and help him regulate those feelings. I encourage crying when he looks like he needs to, I encourage talking about his problems and solving them together, if he wants my input. I want to be everything my parents never were.

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Affectionate_Day7543@reddit

Having to jump to action at a moments notice because a parent decided we had to go somewhere or do something right now. Then getting grumbled at for not moving at the speed of a fighter pilot. It’s something I still struggle with and my partner has to remind me that a suggestion does not need immediate action stations. It’s like always being on stand by I hated it

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fxshnchxps@reddit

Read a book at night! I always used to get in trouble as a kid because I’d use my bratz motorbike as a torch to read books when I should be sleeping. Now I have Apple books and can read until the early hours of the morning with only my husband to say “I told you so” 😁

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No-Extension-2378@reddit

Eating until I've had enough, not having to eat until the plates empty.

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uselesskant@reddit

I can just go to the toilet if I need to and I’m out in public, I don’t need to ask someone to take me and potentially have them tell me to hold it

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Swansboy@reddit

Have a lasinga for breakfast

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Optimal_Tension9657@reddit

Run with scissors

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emimagique@reddit

When we went on holiday as a family and the flight landed, my dad would always force us to sit and wait until everyone else had got off the plane. Now I stand up as soon as the seatbelt sign goes off and fight my way through the hordes to passport control!

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PsychologicalDish430@reddit

Anything I wanted to do.

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Mincey808@reddit

Stay up late!

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Apprehensive-Till910@reddit

I’m 31 and I’m still the one who has to be cramped in the middle seat whenever there’s 5 people in a car.

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Cautious-Diver-9613@reddit

Stay up late however now that I can, it’s an overrated experience. I just wanna sleep.

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SkeletorOnLSD@reddit

Pizza for breakfast. That had me set for the day.

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Kate_Electro@reddit

Worship satan. My mum hated it when I lived at home.

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Opposite_Funny9958@reddit

Having a bowl of cereal for supper!

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messedup73@reddit

Can sit and read without being disturbed had to share a room with my brother who was 11 years younger as my sister who was two years younger had a major tantrum and kicked me out of the room we shared.Had my own children young and am 52 now and the last 7 years since the last one moved out can enjoy peace and quiet to lose myself in a book.

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Next-Suit-9579@reddit

Not having to deal with the bullshit my family likes to create. I’m no contact with most of my family now, I no longer have to act nicely towards them when they’re being nasty and bullies.

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Edd_the_Redd@reddit

Having coco pops for Sunday dinner

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Spiritual_Tie3348@reddit

Just deciding every now and then that I'm going to do absolutely nothing today other than eat, watch TV or game.

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Sea_Branch5923@reddit

Not feeling trapped in my life

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Watchkeys@reddit

Walk away from conflict.

Life changing when you realise that putting up with it is one of the options, rather than the necessary response.

Very very weird as a reasonably intelligent person to realise that you have spent your adult life not realising this one simple 'hack', even as others around you have been doing it right where you can see them, all your adult life.

Conditioning is STRONG!

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wonkyOnion@reddit

Eat as many donuts and McDonald's as I can shove my mouth. Luckily it wear off pretty quickly, but well, I can.

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