was there anything as a child you really wanted but never got?

I can remember when I was younger, my brother and I always wanted a dog. Our cousins had dogs and we loved playing with them. Our parents refused to get one for us though, and still to this day I haven't had my own dog. I'm too busy with work and other things to properly take care of one, which is why I never ended up getting one for myself. Maybe one day:)

A kangaroo.

Don't laugh, I swear this is true.

You see, one time when my Dad went to Australia, he asked me what I wanted. I said I wanted a kangaroo. He said ok.

So all the time when he was away, I was waiting for my very own kangaroo.

When he got back, I didn't see my kangaroo. He tried to humor me by giving me a camera (which turned out to be a fake one that I believed was real - but that's another story) and I was somewhat mollified.

So the one thing that I can recall off the cuff that I did not get but wanted as a child was a kangaroo. You know, that animal with pockets that bounces.:P

The best I can remember there was nothing that I just really wanted or thought I had to have at Christmas time. I was alway happy with what ever I did get. I know that kids now days get way too much and I am guilty at doing that with my own kids and grandkids.

All my life, I wanted a piano. I was drawn to them, I couldnt help it. Couldnt keep my hands off them. To this day I have to force myself to pass the piano stores.

I taught myself to play by ear.. everytime I was near a piano or keyboard, I'd play it. I picked out whole classical pieces jut by listening.

I did learn to read music, but I still tend to play by ear.

I imagine if I ever have both the space and the money, I will get one.

I really can not think of anything right now but I'm sure when I was a child I had wanted many things that I didn't get.

I had a simple childhood.

I grew up with animals, gardening, etc

xoxoxoxoxoxo

I always wanted to go to Florida also but it never did happen. Disney World or Land would have been great too. I always wanted to go to Florida for spring break. My mom and dad were too poor back then also.

We always went to Beach Bend Park every year though and it was alot of fun back then when my dad was living. We used to take our capmer and stay all night and we would also take grandma with us.

Hi winterose. The only thing I can really remember wanting as a child that I never got was for my parents to get back together. When I had grown up I realized that isn't wasn't what I really wanted. There was a reason they weren't together anymore. Today I see that it wouldn't have worked out even if they had tried. Other than that, I pretty much got what I wanted. I might not have gotten it exactly when I wanted it, but I got it sooner or later.

I too wanted to go to Disneyland, and never went, even as an adult. I also wanted to go to La Ronde (an amusement park here in Montreal) my dad said he'd bring one day...i ended up going by myself with some friends for the first time when i was 16 yrs old...i'd been waiting since i was 8! I wanted a leather jacket badly when i was in highschool, my dad bought me one, with his hard earned money and warned me not to wear it to school...i told him, but why would they steal mine if EVERYBODY has one? Well...next day, i came home crying and frozen (it was winter) cuz someone had busted into my locker and stole my brand new leather jacket with house keys and id cards in it...never got another one..

There were alot of things I would have liked to have but like you my family wasn't rich...I always wanted the new doll that came out at christmas...But I never got it and always understood why...My parents always tried their best to come close to want I wanted though.

I remember wanting a bicycle so badly that I kept pestering my father to buy one for me. My father refused to buy saying it was a waste of money.

One time, a good friend of my father asked him to buy a bicycle for his daughter. My father brought me and the girl to look for a bicycle. I just sat there in one corner feeling so forlorn and looking at the girl enviously. What makes matter worst was that my father paid it with his own money.

To this day, I can still recall this sad memory and told myself never will I treat my girls with this kind of unfair treatment.:)