Where did my Childhood go?

I went to bed a child and woke up as an Adult. Talk about a major shock. What I mean by this sentiment is, I was forced to take care of my siblings when I was still a child myself. You don’t realize the consequences of these actions until you take a step back and look at all the tween and teen life events you missed out on. We missed out on the Toilet papering of houses, the egging of cars, the Slumber parties that resulted in no sleep and frozen bra’s, and the Senior high school ski trips. Of course, this was the Norm in the late 80’s into the mid 90’s for a lot of households. You see, we where the original latch key Generations. We were tasked with waiting at the bus stop for our siblings, unlocking the house door, making snacks, doing some laundry, starting dinner, helping our siblings with their homework while trying to focus on our own homework. We also would stare at the clock anticipating our Parents return so we could get a second to relax and maybe steal a moment of childhood before it passes. This lifestyle would stick with us and give us a forever Mommy/Daddy complex which would make us the lame ones in the group. It wasn’t our fault that Adulthood was thrusted at us at an early age, nor was it 100% the fault of our parents. It was just reality in the 80’s and 90’s. We were built to be nurturers. Although these practices in Parenting did make us better, it also broke us to get us there. Now as Parents We are more laid back with our own children. We want our children to experience life and not focus as much on Taking care of their siblings, cooking every night, or making mad stacks of money. We prefer them to do things that their generation of kids are doing. We encourage them to choose a job that they can be proud of themselves for doing. We want them to set their own path in life that is not heavily influenced by what we want, but rather by what will make them happy. Unlike the way we were raised. We want them to be free to be who they are with no restrictions from us. We want them to explore all the wonderful things in Life without having to worry about putting it off to raise a Sibling. I guess you can say we are the Rebel Parent Generation. We are the Adults that you will see in the Arcade playing all the Games with a Perma Smile on our Faces. We are the ones that will have the DJ at the night club play Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. We are also the ones in the ebay auctions buying back our lost childhood that was ripped from our hands. We are the Adults that would happily challenge you to an Arcade Battle. I guess what I am trying to say is, please be kind to us as we rewind and try to fill the whole in our hearts where childhood should be.

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