What kind of kid were you? I used to daydream. I mean all the time. Once

[applegrove]

my whole family was eating ice cream cones in the mall and they all got up and left and I stayed there. Some local lady recognized me and drove me home. I once was walking back to my family on the beach from where I had been with my grandmother (she was too crippled to walk on the beach). I was 4. She pointed to my family and off I went.... I took a right and walked for a mile probably before I realized I was lost. Then I walked up till I was a few feet from a family with a nice mother and a nice sister and started to wail. They ran towards me with open arms and took care of me until my frantic/crying mother came running by. All my teachers used to comment on my report cards that I daydreamed all the time. I was really nice and polite. I loved to wrestle and roughhouse. By the time I became a teenager I was was almost unrecognizable I was so shy and weak.

[zen_bohemian]

1. I listened to the radio all the time

dreaming of being a rock star or a music producer. For a young kid, I knew all the Beatles, Beach Boys, Hendrix, Joplin, the Doors songs, and all about the band members. I drew, painted, played with play doh, I also used to daydream alot too. Back in the day, daydreamers were usually smart creative, great imagination and artistic as children.

[grasswire]

2. I was the little sister.

I was quiet, and a bit shy. My happiest times were when my many cousins were together in my grandmother's big house. I never have felt as much myself as in the midst of that big happy gang. Playing monopoly on the screened porch, hanging out in the old basement where an ancient Victrola was abused by us, opening the closet where Uncle Bob's army hero WW2 uniform hung in mothballs. Looking in grandmother's secretary desk for pink bonbons. Every time I think about it I remember this poem:

Backward, turn backward, O time in your flight
Make me a child again, just for tonight.

[EFerrari]

3. I felt most at home in my huge family with all the cousins, too.

I was the oldest girl so I took care of them all but that also meant I could be a "tomboy" and no adults messed with me or they'd lose their babysitter. Plus, my uncles wanted me on their team. :evilgrin:

[applegrove]

4. We hand a gang of cousins who numbered 8 within 5 years of each other. We played capture the

flag, we swam, we played huge games of solitare. Yes the cottage with the cousins were fun times.

[raccoon]

5. I daydreamed a bunch too. About being a rock star, or a movie star, or

some big-name writer.

I said to my sister just a few days ago, funny how I used to want to be famous, and now I don't even want to be on Facebook.

I had some incidents in my life like the ones you described. :hi:

[frogmarch]

6. When I was about 10 I wrote and sent

a letter to MGM Studios, applying for a job as a movie star. I knew it was silly, but I thought hey, what have I got to lose by trying?

Mostly I wanted to be a space traveler. The word "astronaut" wasn't in use then. I daydreamed a lot about being in outer space and visiting other planets.

I also daydreamed of finding dinosaur bones, and I'd dig holes in our back yard and in the pasture behind our house, looking for them.

I was a spontaneous kid and a risk taker. I'm not like that anymore.

[MorningGlow]

7. "Tends to daydream"

I had that accusation (usually put more harshly) on ALL my report cards in elementary school. I don't remember what I was daydreaming about, but I NEVER listened to the lessons. It's a miracle I got through school at all!
:rofl:

I was a big reader; I never wanted to go outside and play, because what was going on in my books was so much more interesting. I also loved music--to distraction sometimes.

I was the opposite of you--I was painfully shy as a child and way more outgoing as a teen (because I had discovered performing was my passion--singing, acting, etc.) Funny how kids' personalities can do a complete 180 like that...

[grasswire]

8. I just realized that a big part of yearning for my childhood

...is that I was totally safe then, in the bosom of a big caring family. The tragedies of my life had not yet happened. There was really nothing to cry about, little to fear.

Today, decades later, I am sitting here crying over a family situation where a family member is under attack from a bitter bully ex spouse in custody court, my housing situation is teetering, and our country and planet are so changed they can't be considered refuge from harm any longer.

There used to be remedies for the hiccups of life. Not so much, now.

[femmocrat]

9. I always had my nose in a book.

I guess I was "studious". And I loved horses, so I read every book about horses in the school library.