What is a childish thing you still fully enjoy as an adult?
For me, I'm nearly 40 and I really love Avatar the last Airbender, reading YA novels, and sometimes I make pasta with fun shapes, just because I can.
What do you enjoy?
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Every so often I still indulge in the "don't step on the cracks" game while walking along the street :-)
I literally did this just yesterday walking to the car from work. Then I had to figure out what actually constitutes as a "crack" and what is just a "purposeful indent' in the sidewalk. I decided that the indents that separate the squares in the sidewalk do not actually count as cracks and its ok to step on those.
Yes, but you're liable to break your dad's spine that way.
It's a habit at this point. Mentally I know it won't break my mama's back, but emotionally... emotionally, I -have- to step over it 😅
Me too!
Gotta protect your momma's back!
Switching song lyrics for immature lines.
Jingle bells, Batman smells...
🎶Robin laid an egg🎵
Pretending to use The Force to open automatic doors.
Oh, it isn’t just me then…
Got into Lego again a few years ago. It definitely has changed a lot since I was a kid in the previous millennium.
I also got back into Lego. I'm early 20s, so the sets of my childhood weren't that different from what's being made now.
But it is cool to finally have the Death Star and Millennium Falcon like middle school me fantasized about.
I love avatar the last airbender too. I haven’t found a show like it since. Besides that, I still like anime (though less nowadays because of some sexist parts)
Sleeping with a teddy bear
I vaguely recall an article linked on the SITE THAT SHALL NOT BE NAMED that something like 40% of adults sleep with a stuffed animal or comfort object
Nothing wrong with sleeping with stuff animals.
I should probably get one seeing how I often end up just hugging the blanket when I sleep.
Riding on the shopping cart like a scooter
Yes! I get many looks. Here's a late-thirties man with a bald head, gleefully grinning like a maniac while careening wildly down the parking lot aisle on a squeaky four-wheeled vehicle meant for vittles.
Late 20s here, same!
😅 Coloring books. Dino nuggies. Chocolate milk. Cartoons. Plushies. Fairy tales.
Also, ATLA is amazing no matter what age you are 🤩
Words like fart, poop, boobies, etc.
Typed on a calculator!
There's a lot of things. One easy one is I enjoy coloring in. And I really like teddy bears.
I love coloring! And now I can afford all the cool sharpies since I'm an adult.
But now you have to pay those cool sharpies with your own money, which is a bit of a tradeoff
It just means that I don't have to share them 😂
My daughter has a stuffed fox that I genuinely like to cuddle with when she lets me.
Stuffed animals in general are dope.
Chocolate milk.
I was really bummed out when I developed lactose intolerance, but I was shocked by how good the Silk Dark Chocolate soy one was.
Also found some brands sell it lactose free here, but unfortunately they're harder to come across in stores.
I like banana flavoured milk too
You're all just being human. You're not childish, just being human.
Jumping in puddles. I almost never get the chance anymore, but if I have boots on and there's a puddle YOU BEST BE PREPARED
Yes. I can get behind this.
Haha same! And shuffling through drifts of leaves in the fall.
I'm quite childish. Still play video games, still watch cartoons more than live-action shows, still eat (now sugar-free) candy. What's going to happen? Are the grown-up police going to break into my house and demand that I turn in my adulting license and my pubes?
Chicken fingers 😣
I enjoy shirking my responsibilities and doing nothing, if I can help it.
Dino shaped chicken nuggets
Been thinking about getting the McCain smile fries at the store for a while now. Do you ever get weird looks from the cashier, or do they not care?
They don't care, at worst they just assume you're buying them for a kid. It takes a lot more than that for a cashier to even notice.
So go get some smiles, those things are delicious.
Yes!
I've been thinking about getting some stuff from my childhood again. I recently watched We're Back on YouTube and while the movie is not great, it has a great charm, which has been making me think of getting the VHS tapes I used to have as a kid.
Aside from that movie, I'm also thinking of getting The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars, Anastasia, The Jungle Book, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
sound effects with my mouth....engine noises, explosions, etc
Blowing on dandelions and watching the seeds float away.
Responsible adults don't propagate weeds.
Dandelions are often the only flowers available for wildlife.
Well actually... Dandelions have a job. They soften the soil where it has become too dense.
Also every part of the dandelion is edible.
There's a distinction between child-ish and child-like. So far I haven't seen anyone say they enjoy anything child-ish (except maybe alternative song lyrics?), but all the lovely child-like responses warm my heart. I eat "sugar cereal" for dessert. Because I'm an adult and I can. Also, I make up silly songs all the time and talk to myself and my cats in silly voices.
Childfree gang?
There is nothing childish about loving Avatar the last Airbender. Every time I watch it I feel like a part of the target audience.
Even the movie?
What movie? There's a movie? It's got to be great. I'll have to watch it!
No, I was a pretty dumb child and even I was like wtf is this
I am a 38-year-old adult and I love Tamagotchis. Also Pokemon, anime, comic books, stickers, sitting on the floor, and using the shower wand as a microphone.
Doing engine sound with my mouth
Minecraft, though i'd like to see a child tangle with GregTech xD
ATLA is awesome. Worth enjoying at any age.
I've got a decent collection of stuff animals. They're nice.
Disneyland.
I thought there would be more, but nothing else is coming to mind.
I'm a similar age and my wife and I have just started watching the Pokémon cartoons (they're on netflix!). She's seen them before but I never have and it's great.
Similarly we watched Phineas and Ferb and it was great.
Love this topic! I'm with you on the YA novels, sometimes I just like an easier read, and does loving Harry Potter count?
Counts enough for me!
Skipping rocks. If I'm near a body of water and there's a flat stone anywhere near me in 100% skipping that thing. This never gets old
Stuffed animals and fun shaped foods/objects. I want the Super Mario macaroni to go with my Dino nuggets so my stuffies and I can have a nice dinner.
YA Novels can be good -- such an easy, engaging story. I really enjoyed the "I am Number Four" and "Jumper" series-es.
Pokemon games. I played all the games up to the Gameboy Advanced, missed the DS and have purchased all of the switch games. My wife and I actually buy both versions of each game so we can trade and battle.
What do you think about the modern games? I can’t get into them
Not the person you asked but I had a blast playing Scarlet even though I didn't really like Sword all that much
Sword is the one I tried out and I did not like it at all. How does Scarlet compare to it?
I liked the open world and encountered very few bugs despite all the reviews talking about the bugs. The battles are the same as any mainline pokemon game for the most part. The entire game is in an open world I found very enjoyable to explore, personally. In sword I was a little disappointed by the very sectioned-off open world segments. The fact that the missions are laid out in a non-linear do-it-in-whatever-order style is quite nice as well, IMO.
Yes! I hated the walled off feel of the world in Sword, so it sounds like Scarlet is more my style.
Haynow, Avatar isn't "childish!" It is super cool and everycritter loves it :P
I make a distinction between childish and child-like or simply the things from childhood. This isn't pedantry, it just serves to illustrate a way of thinking for me that's tangential to the question.
But, a lot actually. It is very unusual for me to not enjoy the things I enjoyed as a kid, and it is almost as uncommon that I reject new things that are for kids just because I'm an adult.
But yeah, I still play with Legos (as opposed to building kits). I finger paint (though I call it working primitive to the art snobs lol). I still watch some cartoons, and I still enjoy the ones I don't watch when they happen to be on.
Joy is a thing that should be cherished while it exists. It, like all things, is ephemeral, so if something that brings it is deemed for kids, I refuse to reject it solely because of age.
It's kinda sad at times though. My niece and my kid used to finger paint with me. Now they're too old for it in their heads, and I miss having that fun with them. The kind of silly play we used to do has been replaced with more structured activity, though there's still play and joy in it (even the knife fighting and general unarmed combat I'm teaching my kid and some others lol).
Retaining that sense of joy, cherishing it when it comes and being able to let it go when it moves on is essential to life.
Cartoons/ animation. I'll never grow out of it.
rocking on a swing 😁
Shonen anime/Manga. I think it's due to the inherent buddhist and Eastern philosophy within the medium that keeps it thought provoking even as an adult.
I mean really I'm a big kid anyway. I think it's important to find joy in small things.
I'm with you but I don't really care about philosophy or anything like that, I just love the action and the power of friendship and other tropes that are just so positive.
I like those things too, im a little boy at heart. (:
I actually just started watching Avatar for the first time and I'm 35. Also been playing a game called Rumble. It's just like being an earth bender. Super fun, and I'm also really enjoying the show. I think I'll moved on to the legend of Korra after I finish.
Hurtling towards 30 so a youngun in your books.
But i like to whistle random melodies in public, communicate in weird noises with my partner at home, read YA fantasy (mistborn, assassins apprentice)..
Coloring. I don't do it very often, but I always feel better after I do. Apparently it's a recommended activity for mental health: Mayo Clinic: Coloring is good for your health
My son bought me a flamingo squishmallow and it’s the best!! Also, Pokémon Go
Poop jokes. Never gets old. Always make them.
At 33, I rather enjoy watching people play minecraft on youtube.
I like American Girl dolls!
As a young lad I loved and used my skateboard daily as transportation.
Now I've taken up slow longboard cruising and having a blast!
Taking things apart and then ruining them. Had my girlfriends oldtimer out for a year because of that. Fixed it but she never looked at me the same way again. Hahaha
Kiff!
Gotta catch 'em all!
I like avatar as well. I watch it and Digimon occasionally.. and I love YA books as well.
Cartoons, plush toys, cute merch (pencils, stickers,...). It always provides a great escape from the beige-gray adulting (tm) everywhere.
I love my stuffed toys and old cartoons because its much more simpler. Also, shoujo manga (which I'd die before i admit irl)