Thursday, May 10, 2012

History Channel's Next Big Special

I just heard someone say "my kid watches way too much tv" and it made me sad. What kinda childhood are kids nowadays gonna have to look back at and remember anymore? My childhood consisted of things like trying to start fires unsuccessfully, making witches potions out of berries, camping in the backyard, climbing trees and bus rooftops and jumping off of them into huge piles of snow, saving beetles, making up games with kickballs, flour fights in the kitchen and powder fights in the bedroom, making up musicals and performing them and charging the neighbors (lemonade stands are for amateurs), making prank calls and sometimes calling the police on accident, driving kiddie tractors down the crazy lady's hill and trying not to get caught, hockey in basements, 10-20, pretending to be radio show hosts, near death experiences of being almost swallowed by the creepy swamp mud or attempting to jump creeks unsuccessfully, biking all around creation, putting on duo stunt shows, running away from Jurassic park and Dr. Kelly, stealing change to go to the flower shop and the quick stop, flipping over the bars behind church signs, transforming the kitchen into a breakfast cafe complete with flipping pancakes to the ceiling, tons of puddle jumping, digging for earthworms, around the world, hiding in cubbie holes as feivel was a bad baby, writing our own sitcoms and comedy shows, and all filled with so much laughing, fun, and creativity that I can't even imagine wanting to turn on the tv. Thank you to all my friends that were a part of my awesome childhood. Here's to keeping it alive and passing it down.  I don't want the History Channel to have to do a special called Creative Childhoods of the 80's for us to remember this stuff.

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