A lot of us have different background cultures and traditions and this affects our activities as children.
I remember building houses with sand, Police and thief, making guns out of paper and the most famous ones DADDY and MUMMY play.i know a lot ofladies did TENTEN.What were the things u did as a child?

iice:

Hmmmm i played indians and cowboys, cops and robbers, wrestling mania lol, i also always went on escapades, be gone for the whole day crossing lil creeks(was terribly adventurous then) and exploring the town also climbing the house and jumping frm buildings 2 water tanks and jumping fences (Yes i was a rebel) Got spanked everytime but i'd still do it the next day, played football with the guys, went on anything excursion the guys went on lol. I played jump ropes and tenten with girls. . .

u must definitely be a troublesome kid,gurl for that matter lol Are u still making truoble?

I love climbing mango's trees and plucking them.
If the owner see me on the tree. i will have no choice but to do spiderman on him

I used to climb trees.
Go to peoples compound to steal fruits. One person always had to stand guard and when the owner comes we will jump down and run for our lives.
I used to fill an empty tin with water kill a grasshopper add grass and put it in the sun to boil. The water got real hot.
I climbed the roof of the house.
Sometimes me and my sister will climb the hill in front of our house.
One day we walked from Enugu to hilltop , dont ask me how we got there we were only like 8 and 10 years old.
Fish in the stream.
play with potto potto. and when it raines play sking in the grass

mamaput u remind of the song we used to sing when its raining. Rain rain go away
I also stole fruits, i also played with rubber band. who remebers "counters" also the cover for coke i collected a lot of that.
dont forget mini mini mani mo father has a donkey and so on.

The cover of coke i forgot.
And coso ( that thing that you spin and it falls on its mouth.
But we also played with asbestos and built house with it.
And that think has been banned.
I even played with toads. throw them as fas as bpossible or on my friends.

i used to play with sand, chase all ma gradmas goats around the house, throw stones at the goats and all ma grandmas chickens in the compund, i used to go and uncover and smash lizard eggs buried in the sand around the house that was ma speciality

i loved climbing trees especially the orange tree in front of ma fathers house and i would always get whipped , i still went back any way

i played a lot of ten tens, boju bojus, iya ati babas.

ikamefa:

i used to play with sand, chase all ma gradmas goats around the house, throw stones at the goats and all ma grandmas chickens in the compund, i used to go and uncover and smash lizard eggs buried in the sand around the house that was ma speciality

i loved climbing trees especially the orange tree in front of ma fathers house and i would always get whipped , i still went back any way

i played a lot of ten tens, boju bojus, iya ati babas.

i feel you i also did similar things. seems like we all like climbing trees as little children

babaibadan:

i feel you i also did similar things. seems like we all like climbing trees as little children

its cos our mother would always warn us not to climb least we fall and break our legs,arms whatever ! but u known a child's curiosity would always get the better of that child.

ten ten, mummy and daddy, bread and butter [jaskelebe, ma je o gbona ], omo oba kan n geshin lo ,

didnt climb because i was afraid of breaking something, but i did crawl

did anybody roll tires? dodging!! Fire!!

Me but no fire or tie them to a tree and use as swing.

mamaput:

Me but no fire or tie them to a tree and use as swing.

u really had a time growing up.

or walking on empty milk tins.
We used to put a hole in the middle of the tins attach a rope to them and hold the rope with toes as support to walk

did anyone also roll motorcycle wheels on the road? I have so many mischievous things I did when I was a kid.I recall putting unripe guavas in my mum's pot of soup because she flogged me.I always had an endless supply of stones and unripe guavas in the pockets of my shorts and would not hesitate to stone anyone with them,especially from up the tree.I loved to play in sand,spraying it around and looking for trouble everywhere.I remember the first day I saw my vagina,I thought it was a sore I developed while playing rough and I cried so hard.When my mum would make my hair to go to school in the morning,I would come back with everything all out so to solve that problem,she used a shaving stick to shave off all my hair and you know what happened the next day?I used paper to cover my hair and dared anybody to laugh at me because mennnn,I looked horrible!!!

@snazzydown
ha that guava in the pot part is interesting, so did yur mum discover ur mischief or did the whole house eat guava soup.

i pretended playing a model with my friends, flying paper planes,yeah tenten,even cooking i used to go to our kitchen and take somethings like rice and other things and pretend i was cooking for people

I also remember those times when i did sth wrong in the presence of visitors,my mum would use "eyes" to talk to me if u know what i mean. Whenever i am back from skool i rem my older ones asking me to recite poems i learnt in skool that usually ends up in comedy cus i dont know the lyrics just the ryhmes so i end up with my own words. Poems like Two lil birds sitting on a wall ,one named peter, and so on. I also had problems learning the national anthem and of course state and capital.
@shantell
almost all young gurls cook imaginary food that no one will be able to eat.LOL

- playing with my BMX bicycle
- going for an easter family picnic at Gurara falls
- travelling home from xmas and putting on new clothes, pants and shoes, feeling sooooooo cool
- my 10th birthday, felt like a queen

some memories!

Sometimes we used to scratch broken white plates on the stone ground till it forms powder and use it to polish our finger nails. Till they shine

mamaput:

Sometimes we used to scratch broken white plates on the stone ground till it forms powder and use it to polish our finger nails. Till they shine

did that, egg shells were used instead.

@busta
u had an ajebota childhood, cant be compared to ajepako one;so full of fun.

I remember ma mum sending me to buy Ghana bread for her from the next street from our house and a couple of ma childhood friend were skipping ropes, i left ma mamas money by the side of the road and skipped rope with them. My mum tired of waiting for the bread met me there and gave me the whipping of ma life." " Did it on several occasions too and i got thumped each time.

Do i have any childhood memories? no i don't

stealing meat from the pot which later led to trying to steal popcorn while it was still popping. u open the pot up and voila na hot popcorn attack ur face.

http://nigerianmemories..com/

Riding bike with my brothers and cousins.

My 10th birthday, five days after my sister's baptism was just the best birthday I have ever had.

Hunting for snails with my brother and cousins at Housing Estate park in Calabar, shortly after rainfall. What happened? The maid fried them for us.

Listening to Christmas carols during Christmas, decorating the house with artifical Christmas tree from "Whispering pine" tree.

Annual Christmas party at Unical Staff School, complete with Father Christmas.  Ok, that one, I was a regular, even when I left for secondary school.


My mother taking me and my siblings for Christmas shopping along that Marian Road, have forgotten the name of the shopping 'plaza'

How can I forget, baking ChinChin and cookies (Gingerbread man and the rest) with my mother and siblings. That was a treat!!!.

Fetching water at the pump, sometimes at UNICAL staff quarters and a nearby well in the village.

Heck, how about gathering firewood during harvest of palm fruits in the village?

Watching Television with my family members.

Life in Nigeria generally was memorable. Thank God for those wonderful memories.

I remember sometimes grinding up chalks and rolling them up in a paper and pretending to smoke. Once in a while my brothers and I would roll up papers and lit them up and pretended to smoke. My mom caught us once and bit the 'devil' out of us.