The $100 Question: What Would You Change About Your Childhood?

I would change the way I took things as a child. I was way too sensitive resorting in thoughts of inferiority!
What a sad thing for a child to live with.

Wow. I really had a great childhood and am not sure what I would have changed. I guess I wish that I had been more outgoing.

I would have liked to have more freedom to make decisions when we were growing up. We basically had no say even when it came to simple things like what we ate.

My Dad was an alcoholic and not a good husband or Dad. I would have liked to change him (I know that isn't possible as we tried)

I wish I spoke up more often. I wish I would have realized that everyone has issues. I wish I had spent more time with my Grandmother.

Spent more time with my parents while they were still around. They have since passed.

My father wasn't around. He left my mother to raise us by herself. garrettsambo@aol.com

I would have changed to a better father or asked for my mom to have more strength to leave.

My parents wouldn't have gotten divorced, and my dad would of been with us.

Leaving home sooner LOL

I guess I grew up "on the tracks". There were some families "on the other side of the tracks". We weren't that bad off, but we didn't have a whole lot of money so we didn't fully fit in with the , I don't know - as kids "cool people". In reality we were lower middle class, failing somewhat to fit in with upper middle, but not as bad off as those families just a few blocks away. It would have been nice to have a bit more money, but as an adult, I'm not sure it would have been that good for me to fit in.

I wish we would have traveled more, outside of visiting grandparents.

I would change the fact that I didn't have all of my surgeries and dental work done as a child. I was born with a cleft lip and cleft palate and had to have a lot of work done. By the time I reached fourth grade or so I said no more please. I wish I hadn't or that my parents had said we're doing this.

i wouldn't be so naive

i would also change the fact that i only have sisters and no brothers...

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Hey Megan, If i could chose to change anything, I wore big coke bottle glasses and i was a huge tom boy :(

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If I could change my childhood, I would have my father in my life. Too bad I got stuck with a deadbeat!

I would exercise more and work harder on Maths.

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I would have participated in more activities like dance, sports, etc.

I guess it would be that I would like to have been more confident about trying new activities such as sports, dance, etc.

Unfortunately it is difficult to pick just one, but I guess I wish I would have had some sort of connection with both my parents, growing up it was just like I just 'lived there' but I wasn't really part of a family :(

I definitely would have been more outgoing and had more self-confidence.

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Unfortunately my father was verbally abusive to all of us, and physically abusive to my mother. I loved him and I know he loved me but it was a hard childhood because of it. thanks.

I look back and realize what a blessed life I had. At the time, I thought my parents were too strict, yet now I'm so glad they were. I wouldn't change a thing -- except perhaps my attitude towards my parents.

I wish I could have stored sharper memories so I could now recall those childhood moments with clarity. Otherwise, I'm good with, what I remember of, the way I grew up.

I would change how I treated some of the kids at school. Looking back (hindsight is always 20/20) I see some kids at school were in really sad situations at home and needed a friend to talk to. Wish I had been there for them.

....to be nicer to everyone I ever met.

be less afraid of failing.

maybe make it last longer than it did. Looking back, it seems like it went so fast.

I wouldn't trade my family but I would change the fact that we were dirt poor and didn't have opportunities to do things like other people did.

There's nothing about my circumstances I would want to change, but I guess I wish I'd worked harder to nurture and keep friendships. Now that I'm older, I wish I had more friends who "knew me then."

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I would have made my mother understand just how horrible our dentist was. He would put the novacaine shot in the same place in my mouth, regardless of which tooth he was drilling, he started working before the novacaine took effect, and he stuck the explorer tool into the part of the tooth that HURT! And it didn't help that we had well water, so we didn't have fluoride protection. I have never been able to get over my fear of dentists. I can be calm when I walk in, but as soon as they pick up that explorer, my instinct is to jump out of the chair and run away.

I wish I could go back and give myself more confidence when I was younger, especially during the middle and high school years!

more time with my sister she died from cancer at the age of 5

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I would change the move I went through to FL.

I would choose to spend more time with my Father. I wasted so much time - time that I could have spent with him before he died.

If I could change just one thing I would let my parents relax their vigilance. Because my mom had such a difficult pregnancy and delivery they were told she couldn't take a chance on having more children. As a result I wasn't allowed to do anything that could even remotely result in an accident - no bike, no roller skates, as a teen I wasn't even allowed to go to high school football games if they were at another school.
I wish they could have just enjoyed having me.

I don't think I would change a thing - one thing led to the other to the place and being I am now

There seemed to be so much confusion and chaos when I was growing up. I wish things had been more relaxed and calm for everyone.

I would change the fact that in my teen years my parents lost interest and boundaries disappeared. Sometimes it would have been easier to say that my parents won't let me do that. In the end, I did ok on my own with the peer pressure. I just wish it was less on my own.

I wouldn't be a chunky kid!
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I wouldn't change a thing. I had a great childhood.

My entire childhood mom said we can't do that because we are saving money to send you girls to college. She died at the age of 38 from breast cancer and never really enjoyed life.

I kind of wish my parents pushed me a little more to be more independent & less shy.

I'd change the town where I would of grown up in and the friends I picked as my friends that weren't really friends to begin with

How much I pushed myself, or rather didn't.

I would have taken French Immersion in school so that I could speak French fluently now. It would have really helped my career prospects.

I lost my grandparents at a young age so I would have gotten to know them better if I could change anything about my childhood.