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'The Goonies' | Sharing childhood nostalgia with our children

2020-08-09T14:31:34.041Z


And in this rare summer where we are now confined and unconfined, many of us will choose to return to the beach or mountain villages where we used to go as children.


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Nostalgia is in fashion. Look Stranger Things, I went to EGB or the musical groups that meet again to live off the great successes. And in this rare summer where we cannot travel abroad and where we are now confined and unconfined, many of us will choose to return to the beach or mountain villages where we used to go as children. And we will do that as a father to share our childhood memories with the couple and the children. Operation nostalgia, wow.

But if growing up makes the things that impressed you now look more crappy, your past experiences may seem like a sovereign boredom to others. (Now I remember my father explaining to me his childhood summers and me listening to him regularly like “okay, but I want a Nintendo”, and I feel very ungrateful).

In this emotional getaway, if the budget, the distance and the virus allow it, we can share landscapes, tell them anecdotes, repeat the itineraries that fascinated us, even play with the children in the same places where you played. Because some parts of the town will have been modernized, but those half-rusted 30-year-old swings still hold up, like the apartments where you went, the ice cream shop, the restaurant for special occasions or even the one you never went to because it was so expensive. (And now that you will pay, you will understand that it was really expensive).

Above all, take the opportunity to repeat the typical family photos in the same places, which is always a great gift for grandparents.

New York is very cosmopolitan and everything you want, but going back with your family that loves you to the same place where you did not know what your life would be like is a fabulous test to tell your child self “we made it”.

If there is no possibility of doing this, we have the low-cost option to share nostalgia much more practical and safe: give your children the series, movies or songs that you loved.

Some will have aged very badly but others have the same strength as always. Of course, first look at the classification by age, to see if we will create traumas ... That the children of the 80s saw movies as unconscious that we did not touch and so we are.

With my daughter we are already watching Willy Fogg and the Disney classics and I am looking forward to putting her The Princess Bride, Inside the Labyrinth and The Goonies , we are playing with my Masters of the universe , and she happily dances songs by Roxette or Cyndi Lauper.

If this is accompanied by a review of family photo albums and the rescue of the typical toy boxes that we have in grandparents' mezzanines or an analog dive discovering how cassettes, VHS tapes and diskets work, Operation Nostalgia will give you fills up several days and ties you even closer to your brood.

Now we just need to find that tube of coins to hang around our neck and go together to buy a Camy ice cream.

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Source: elparis

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