Fun childhood activities you might relate to

Today is children's day celebration in Nigeria but I didn't actually feel the impact. I didn't even know today is children's day until my younger sister mentioned it. I saw her at home in the morning and asked if she was not going to school and she replied; "why will schools be open when today is children's day?" 😆.

Anyways, I felt it's only proper if we are to talk about the things we did during our childhood. I will also share some pictures you might recognize if you were born in the 90s 😉 but first, let's start with those memories some of us had from our childhood.

1. Playing in the rain

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It's funny how I no longer love to play in the rain these days because I find it too cold but I did it a lot as a kid. Once it starts raining, my siblings and I quickly rush down into the rain and start running around, but we only do that when my mom isn't at home.

We play in the rain for a long time and then we quickly take off our clothes and change into a new ones so that our mom won't find out what we did. Sometimes we end up getting caught and what follows is several minutes of serious ass whooping while we keep screaming promises of never entering the rain again. But what happens the next time it rains? We enter again 😂

2. Roleplaying

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This can be anything from doctor and patient down to a trader and customer. I and my siblings used our sitting room as an entire city back then for our role playing 😂 one section is our home (which includes kitchen and bathroom), and another section is our office then we still have the market section.

My sister and I pretend to go to work in the "morning" while my last sister stays home because she's our child 😆. Cooking is usually done using old tin cans and pieces of paper rolled into tiny balls serve as the food. Lest I forget, we even had cars 😂 we use our couch as a makeshift car, we use our mouths to mimic the sound of a moving car.

3. Indoor and outdoor games

Now, this part takes a major chunk of my childhood! We had lots of games back then from simple ones like "who is in the garden" to advanced ones like police vs thief. Some games will turn you into physicists as you will keep calculating the angle and speed required to defeat your opponent like the biro game below. 😆

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You know another complicated game? Skipping rope! And I don't mean the regular ones where you will just be jumping over the ropes, we did it why doing different tricks with how hands and legs, then we started counting to see who gets the highest number of jumps

4. "Let me keep it for you"

Anytime you hear your mom say that sentence, just know you're never going to get that thing again 😂 the thing I am talking about is money. Whenever we have a visitor and they give me some money, my mom will always say "let me help you to hold it" and that's the last time I will see it. Whenever I ask about it, she will tell me she has used it to buy clothes for me. I already have lots of clothes mom! 😆

5. Saturday morning cartoons

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Saturdays were the best day for a lot of us back then and it was not just because there was no school but also because we get to watch cartoons all morning. Cartoons start showing as early as 6am and keep airing until noon. The classics back then were superman, Voltron, Tom and Jerry, animaniacs, kids next door and many others I have forgotten.

6. Unexpected vacations?

To be continued...

I discovered I can't fit everything into one article or else it will be too long, so at this point, I will just cut it short and continue tomorrow 😉 which of these memories can you relate to? Let me know in the comment section

Thanks for reading 💖💖💖

Friday May 27, 2022