Humor: Growing up 20 Articles

by Amanda West

Growing up is a part of life. When you really stop and think about it you start out in diapers and a lot of us end up in diapers again in the end. If you don't know what I'm talking about I will explain. You begin life ...read more

by Calvin Robinson

When I was growing up, I was fortunate to be the child of a father who could do almost anything. He could weld, he built houses, he could do major mechanic work, electrical work, plumbing, grading, masonry, concrete work,...read more

by Brian Eaton

In the last week, I have noticed something deplorable in today's society. The first came on Monday. My friend and roommate Kevin the Kenyan embarked upon a holy quest to recover something from the days of our childhood...read more

by Bonnie Leach

Prepare an answer for the age old question of what you want to be when you grow up, so that when you're asked you have an answer. Change it frequently. Make it unrealistic, but remain hopeful. An astronaut, a rock star,...read more

by Marian Huyck Grossi

Moms often have a subtle way of helping you learn. Advice from my Mom was generally given by example. The house, even with five kids running around, was always neat as a pin. Dinner, hot and delicious, was always rea...read more

by Bob Cornell

"Youth" "And if you could have one wish, what would that one wish be?" asked the reporter. "To be appointed to more committees, to have a softer chair in which I can occasionally doze in Congress and to have more powe...read more

by Nikki-Rae Alkema

Raised at the sandy beaches and grassy parks of Southern California, my sister and I were never the girls who liked frills. Between soccer practice, softball tournaments, Sunday surf, and regular trips to the bike trails, ...read more

by Tom Karlin

Growing up is hard to do. Why? Well for one thing, it's difficult to know when you are fully grown up, especially for men, and I can only speak for men, being one myself. Perhaps women have a better understanding about bei...read more

by Christianna Colbert

I am an American child of the '70's and '80's, born in 1970. In a lot of ways, I'm still stuck there. The music was so much better. It never ceases to amaze me that kids nowadays are overprotected, flabby, and boring. The...read more

by menthol mare

As a child born in the 70s, the 80s was the time when most of my ideals were formed. Frilly shirts, velvet knickerbockers and the glorious shell suit. Bazooka chewing gum, Fruit Salads & Blackjacks, Wham bars. Hedgehog fla...read more

by Patricia Parker

There is, of course, an alternative to growing up. It's not a pleasant subject to think about, write about or worry about. "I don't wanna grow up, I don't wanna be a man," is from the play "Peter Pan." Peter wants to...read more

by Rolan Whitt

Growing up. Hmmm, doesn't sound like fun, I guess that's why I have avoided it thus far. Well, for the most part. There was a lot of forced growing up, losing a parent at a very young age and friends and family members ...read more

by Emelia Arlington

Between the years of fifteen and twenty-five are by far the most frustrating years of ones life. Why? They are the years in which your parents officially consider you conveniently an adult or what I like to call a kidult....read more

by Lorie-Ann Sikkens

A child's curiosity at the age of two can be very entertaining. It was Christmas and all of the family was visiting. While all of the adults were sitting around the kitchen table talking, my niece disappeared. It was on...read more

by Aleister Pinkbelly

New Non-Amusement Park "Realityworld" to Teach Children Harsh Realities of Life - Look out Disneyland, here comes Realityworld. The new non-amusement park, set to open its gates in La Palma, California in 2009, will...read more

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by Chris Sutton

Growing ups a funny old thing, you spend most of your childhood saying, I can't wait till I'm grown up and you spend most of your adulthood looking back at the good old days. People say being at school is the best time in ...read more

by Barry Williams

As I was growing up I became fascinated in the attention that fools get and expressions that accompany fools. A real gem is " A fool and his money are soon parted" I have to ask you where were all these fools when I wa...read more

by Adam Bacon

I lived with this. My brother Curtis and his friend Delbert were tying off a hundred foot rope on the limb of cottonwood poplar. The free end of the rope barely reach the ground, so Curtis tied a loop in the end for a f...read more

by Suga.

21 reasons why it's great not being popular and being yourself 1.) Less stress on the weekends 2.) Less gossip 3.) Less boyfriend trauma 4.) Less cat fights 5.) More time for yourself 6.) Less spending money on frien...read more

by William Felton

. Clothing was optional when I was a young one, for some reason I did not like to wear them. The stories I hear when the family gets together, like when I was five and earned my nickname "Pistol Pete". I had snuck of...read more