Your inner child

[MANT!]

reading Heinlein juvenile fiction..remembering how Mars and Venus should have been...

 

[Taylirious]

Just having fun, using your imagination & living in the moment seems the best way to nurture your inner child which isn't a child at all but your higher self.

 

[Random_Spock]

I really like popping bubble wrap and watching animated kids movies. Sometimes drinking a hot chocolate is nice or getting an ice cream cone. Cuddling the bear my bf gave me at night. Singing in the shower or car. Laughing out loud in public places and not caring if people stare at me.

No shame in popping some good bubble wrap! Love the stuff.

I like to play video games, watch movies and tv shows that made me laugh when I was younger and still do. I like to write, draw (still working on that one though ), and just goof around sometimes. I have a rather silly and corny sense of humor.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

My inner child runs the show; it's the outer adult that's in shambles.

 

[RoJoHen]

My inner child is grounded.

 

[FPAlpha]

I'm still a gamer of all kinds.. board games, tabletop games, videogames.. you name it.

The only difference is that i can now drive to my friends in my own car and we have some cold beers alongside.

Oh.. and i'm not too mature to drop some low brow jokes in the appropriate company and laugh at stuff that shouldn't be laughed at.

 

[Catarina]

I second Star Trek and bubble wrap popping.

I used to nurture my inner child regularly. Lately I've been in survival mode.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

^Your inner child needs candy

 

[C. Cole-Chakotay]

Let's see: I collect Barbie, Lammily, Franklin Mint and Danbury Mint Princess Diana dolls and clothes, American Girl dolls and clothes, Beanie Babies, stuffed dogs. I have a life sized Dalmatian dog that I sit by my end table. It's the first thing you see when I open my door. I love reading and have DVDs to enjoy.

 

[Pondwater]

I have a big Snoopy in the living room, keep a copy of the Frog and Toad collection on my bedside table. Rarely....I'll watch cartoons. I have a pretty boring inner child.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I have two stuffed Pikachu dolls.

One stands watch over my Vin Scully bobblehead, the other guards my wireless Internet router.

 

[HIjol]

I am very much (too much?) in touch with my Inner Child. I share a similarity with Auntie, in that the IC is very well developed, and in fact is the default, 1.0 for my Operating System. While GrownUpHood is not all it is cracked up to be, it is necessary, from time to time. I can play the part but I much prefer toys and games, emotion and laughter, playtime and fantasy, and lots of pretend and dreaming about what could/would/should be. Pro'lly why I am a teacher and a dreamer. But I am damn good at what I do, and the world needs me, too!

 

[HIjol]

By the by, for anyone doing any Armchair Psychology at home, is there a trend of sorts making itself apparent with regard to Us on this BBS?

 

[auntiehill]

^just a general characteristic of Misc., I believe. But I would assume that most people who are deeply into any fandom probably are very in touch with their "inner child."

 

[Timewalker]

[*]Angry Birds

I don't know if the character has a name (not into the whole Angry Birds thing), but I do have a couple of the red birds - one is a plush toy and the other is a squeaky toy. The squeaky one sits near my computer and glowers out into the room. There are days when his expression matches my mood exactly.

 

[HIjol]

^^ "glowering"...such a fine word...

 

[publiusr]

One of my favorite words to describe anger as well.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with any of this. Go for it, and don't let anyone tell you to "grow up". You have an imagination, and that's something far too many people lose as they get older.

Back in the '80s I once waited at a bus stop in town, after having purchased a gaming book called Dicing With Dragons I opened the book and started to read it, and a girl who was maybe about 11 or 12 years old took one look at it and informed me in a critical tone of voice, "There's no such thing as dragons."

I told her that yes, there was - in peoples' imaginations. She didn't get it, and I was left wondering how a kid her age could already have lost the concept of imagination and fantasy.

The growing pessimism of our age--it is going to get worse.

In the 70s-80s...the year 2001 was still in the future--a mark we were all pushing for.

We are losing more than we are gaining.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

There's always going to be people like that. But genre tv and movies is experiencing an enormous surge in the last 7 or so years so clearly a dying imagination is not a trend.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

I am a preschool teacher and that involves letting the outer adult paint with tempera, dig in the sandbox and a few other things.

 

[Sakrysta]

The only significant way my inner child manifests herself is the silent tantrum she throws every morning over having to get up and go to work every day.

I have been known to occasionally cuddle a stuffed animal, especially when I'm sad. I do have a few toys on my desk at work, mainly for my sanity's sake. Other than that, I am depressingly grown up.