I should be more embarrassed about this but I’m not…lol. One of my favorite toys growing up was a portable chalkboard. You could write on the top, then the top flipped open and inside was a place to hold things like papers and chalk and erasers. Which means for fun, I played school.
My dad, to this day, loves to tell the story about how a friend of his came over one day, and his son was about my age. So we went off to play. I asked the son if he wanted to play school and he was completely and utterly disgusted. “PLAY SCHOOL!?!?! YUCK!!!”
But me…I loved handing out papers, and writing on the board, and having a fake grade book. I would line my stuffed animals up and discipline them, which is weird because I never got yelled at in school or anything. I don’t think it’s that I wanted to be a teacher, but this is what I considered a good time back then–handing out homework assignments, bossing my animals around, and washing the chalk board.
So that’s it…the geeky kid me loved pretending I was in school.
Did you have a favorite toy? Does it uncover any embarrassing childhood secrets…like…for a good time, you played school? Let’s hear it!
Just a Maryland Girl 
Ha! I did the exact same thing with my stuffed animals! Great minds. I also had that little tape recorder from Toy Story. My brothers and I played with that thing so much until it broke. We hosted a regular talk show on it. The guests were our stuffed animals. We had a jingle and everything. We were so imginative. I should really try to find those tapes 😄
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OHHH my goodness! You HAVE to find them! I bet those tapes are hilarious! What a precious memory!
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Me and my sister got portable record players for Christmas one year and a stack of 45s. She broke hers and took mine. I couldn’t prove it. I was crushed!
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Ohhh good post! I remember playing mouse trap and operation with my sisters! Haha also Nintendo. This makes me feel old 😅
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Omg just thinking about operation makes my nerves bad! HAHA! It was such good times though!
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