Would you want to live thru childhood again?

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I don't remember much of my childhood, so I don't know if I want to relive it.

i couldn't. I think if I could pick what point to restart maybe. But not my entire childhood

i might want to... depends do i get to stay in canada with my relatives the second time... because i would not want to move to America twice

If I were to relive my childhood I would be afraid I might accidentally alter my future and not have the children and wife I have today. However, I think I am looking to deep on this question---so...in the context of what I think is meant here let me say that there are certain moments of my childhood I would love to live over. For example:

Easter vacation and the Summer of 1974. For some reason it was just magical. I would love to relive the two vacations my family took to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina that year. I have fairly clear memories of them---so I often relive them in my memories. In some ways it feels like only yesterday that it was 1974 when I was 9 years old and I took my first ride on what became my favorite roller coaster the Swamp Fox---a roller coaster that I later helped get ranked in the top 10 wooden roller coasters and helped save from the wrecking ball.

Vacation 1976 out West. I rode roller coasters, went to Mexico, marveled at the Grand Canyon and Carlsbad Caverns, and was mesmerized by the lights of Las Vegas.

Myrtle Beach 1977 at the opening of the Wild Rapids Water Slide. This was a very wild water slide park (3 slides) that I rode many times throughout the years until Hurricane Hugo damaged it in the late 1980s and it was rebuilt differently. Something odd happened when I was there in 1977. I was 12 years old and although I liked being left alone, there was a guy there around my age that I befriended that day. We rode the water slides for a long time. He was from Pittsburgh I think. I have always wondered where he is today. Being more or less of a loner, I have often thought back to that day and how I came out of my shell a bit and made a friend---for one day. But don't feel sorry for me---I later rode that same water slide in 1983 with a girl that I later married---and we are still married .

I would love to go back to my childhood and relive the visits to my grandparents' house and woods. I want to eat one of those Sunday dinners again that included turnips, turnip juice, and cornbread. I want to eat my grandmother's homemade meatballs with gravy again. I crave my grandmother's homemade chili and hamburgers on cold winter evenings. I want to once again be taken deep into the woods by my grandfather so that I could explore the caves on the property---wow those were magical---and I want to once again believe his story that a bear lived in Ice Cave near where the bats hung out. I want to feel their hugs and kisses again---not the bats and the bear, but my grandparents' hugs and kisses. I would love to experience a magical Christmas with them again when the gifts were piled high around the tree---but the best gift was having such a loving family around me.

There are many more times I would love to relive. But I do relive them in my mind many nights when the house is quiet. And it's amazing how vivid the memories are---sometimes I feel like they were only yesterday.

Definitely! My childhood was probably the funnest time of my life.

Yes. I would appreciate many things so much more.

I would like to be a kid, but NOT me over again!

I also would prefer to know then what I know now. Instead of asking for karate lessons I'd ask for guitar lessons when I was 10. I'd have started playing left-handed guitar from the start. And I'd have a better grasp at social rules.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to go back in time and meet yourself as a kid---to see what you were like from another person's point of view? You can kind of do that with watching old home movies or videos, but we are of course unable to communicate with ourselves as a kid though. So the time machine idea would be neat because we could talk to ourselves as a kid and see what we were like.

This would be a major problem. Altering the past in any way, even in a very insignificant way would likely completely prevent many major events happening. Altering your health even slightly at around the time you conceived a child would alter your body's production of sperm and would prevent your current children from having been born. Even something like having a cold at a different time or avoiding a small negative experience could have changed the order of events in your life, preventing you from meeting significant people or from experiencing certain major events.

Although there are particular aspects of my life I'd like to have been different, no, I don't want to relive childhood(excluding reincarnation).

No. Not unless I kept my knowledge and could do some things differently. Although that would probably take some of the enjoyment, because some of the things that are enjoyable as a kid are because of what they do not know. I would not want to relive most of my childhood though if it played through the same. I also wouldn't want certain things/experiences I've had as an adult to change, and it could if I had done things differently.

You have a point there... Same here (both parents, all grandparents, most all adult friends from my childhood all passed away). But I still would sacrifice that, despite that I loved and miss my mother very much; still 25 years after she died, rather than to relive the hell of growing up undiagnosed or misdiagnosed with all kinds of psychoses, and 8 or 10 years of terror from bullying during school years, etc. I hated and was terrified of school, and never learned a doggone thing there. (My education came from other sources outside of school). In no way would I go through that again.

Charles

If I could go back to the 80s just to watch Pac Man and The Cosby Show it would be worth going back to my childhood. I would also re experience the first time that I've ever watched the Olympics on TV in the Summer of 1984.

Ha. Ha. Hahahahahahaha.

Good grief no. Other people making decisions for you & being made to do things I didn't really want to do are the overriding memories from my childhood

I don't think so. I had a good childhood, but it would also mean going through school again, and even under the best circumstances, school is something you only want to experience once in your life.