Children

[Molly]

I found some of my old work from when I was 5, ( to about 7 later on) and it was really funny. I'll give you the highlights:

I blatantly lied, a whole lot... Apparently I...
-Went to the Queen's birthday
-Went to the Mad Hatters tea party
-Had a donkey
-Had a pink elephant in my back garden
-Went in a submarine
-Once got stranded on a desert island with my pet leopard
-My sisters pony was actually mine

I wrote some poetry too:

The Fish

Glittering
Sparkling
As it weaves in and out through the sea
Flittering
Jumping
Twisting
Through the sea

(This one didn't have a title)

Pretty
Red Admiral
Lovely wonderful butterfly
Stripy creature
Butterfly


I also found out I've had my weird 'eating is disgusting'/'I hate food', thing since a child. I put:

' I like reading, Polly and working and I don't like blood, eating and time.'

There was a piece of work saying on what children and adults can do:

When I was a baby I could:
Scream my head naerly off. I could say gow gow gager. I could lie down and move my legs and arms.

Now I am *6* I can: Write, read, ride a two wheeler and walk on a shetland pony.

When I am grwon up I will be able to: Go to work. Drive a car. Choose clothes and have my own pony.

(see the way what we will do when we are 'grown up' is drummed into us from a very young age? I hate that.)

I also wrote interesting things I did at the weekend, such as:
-At the weekend I had a pink eye
-At the weekend I played snowballs
-I went to see the baby bulls
-I fell off Sixpence and got hurt
You can tell when I didn't do anything, or couldn't think of anything because apparently I just 'stayed in bed', yes, for the whole weekend. It never happened.

Okay, I thought it was really funny, so did my sister. But I think it's just because it was me who did it, and it was funny. Sorry if I've bored you, but you have to all put funny ' When I was a child...' stuff, that I have little doubt will be much better than mine.

[Lauren]

Wow! you were a damn imaginative child... I used to hate writing what I did at the weekend.

I never said/wrote anything like that, that I can remember. I'll have to have a look.

[Peffkitten]

Molly said:

-Once got stranded on a desert island with my pet leopard

Hahah! ;D

Once I had to draw pictures of my parents and write about them.
"This is my mummy at her school where she got into trouble"
"This is my daddy on his scooter before he fell off and got run over"

I did a painting of my grandad once, and I made his lips too big + red, so I wrote an explanatory note - apparently he'd been eating jam sandwiches

[Charlie]

I have some old school work under my bed at dads. I think I may fish it out for you. I wasn't a very imaginitive child but the amount of spelling mistakes is amusing.

[Peffkitten]

Stuff about "grils" walking over small "brides", isn't it, Chalkie?

I remember in primary school there was a girl who read "was" as "saw" and read the sentence "Jenny got off the bus. She was a bird."

How we all laughed in our cruel, mocking, childlike way.

And I remember a girl protesting that humans weren't animals, until we gently explained that if we weren't animals we'd be plants.

[trigger_hippy]

i was a right little shit of a kid! i could say shit by the time i was 2! i made flora watch the video evidence! she was killing herself laughing!

[Peffkitten]

Chalk: "Bloody Hell"
Dad: "Charlotte! Don't say that!"
Chalk: "Beryl told me to"
Dad: "Really?"
Chalk "Beryl said say bloody hell not fucking hell"

She was about 3 or 4!

[Charlie]

Ohhh the shame.

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The Fish

Glittering
Sparkling
As it weaves in and out through the sea
Flittering
Jumping
Twisting
Through the sea

(This one didn't have a title)

Pretty
Red Admiral
Lovely wonderful butterfly
Stripy creature
Butterfly
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please please please let me steal that off you and put it on my site! i will say that you did it and stuff! it is magical

[Charlie]

This is a poem I found from my first school book so I would have been 4. Unfortunatly, I'm not half-way as imaginitive as Molly.

This is untitled, but I'll take a guess at 'My Hamster'

My hamster can walk
My hamster can sleep
My hamster can squeak
My hamster can drink
My hamster can eat
My hamster can sleep
My hamster ca go enathi (Then underneath the teacher's written 'can do anything')

I think I was a child genius in disguise.

aw ms charlie, tis a pretty hamster poem of goodness

[Charlie]

You know the best thing is I didn't actually have a hamster.

I drew a great picture too. It actually looks like a hamster. Just a fairly deformed and overly fluffy hamster.

[Peffkitten]

...Maybe it was the school hamster?

I remember looking after it once. It bit dad's finger.

[Charlie]

Yes could be. Although I think the real reason is because I had pschic powers and was actually writing the poem about Forrest, my hamster when I was 13. He didn't last very long. My fish is still alive everyone. He was a present for passing my 12+.

[Molly]

indiesmurf said:

please please please let me steal that off you and put it on my site! i will say that you did it and stuff! it is magical

Awww, thank you! You can if you like!

I never had much luck with pets, my cat aways ate them or they killed each other or just died.
Go Jaws! He is the cutest fish there is. I love Charlie's poem, and her 'bloody hell' thing. heehee.