Presents of the past

Somebody mentioned in Chat last week - might of been Sam R - about the new range coming to ToysRUS in time for the upcoming Christmas (and other) festivities.
This got me thinking about some of the things I had and maybe you did too from your chronological childhood and I feel like talking a little about them this week.
At the time there were at least in my country quite a number of shows on the television featuring Magicians who invited members of the public to take part in their acts and these shows really held my attention.
It was just so super exciting to see something disappear and then by magic reappear at the waving of a wand or a chant so my folks bought me a magic set with a wand, hat and a few other things to try these tricks out.

 It was something a bit like this one but in white background box going by memory.


I also had something quite useful as I have dyspraxia  which makes trying to write neatly something of a pain and that was a basic Child's Typewriter with a small frame, limited to A5 or maybe going as far as A4 paper.
Iused that to write short stories, thank you letters, lists and labels for school projects on.
This dear reader was well before the personal computer was widely available with word processing programs like Word Star came about never mind MS Word so you really didn't have too many choices!
We didn't have the spell checker - hurrah for the Can-E spellchecker on here! - so you had to use a little erasure and overtype this  being before even correction fluid became widely available for budding typists.
Mine was a Petite a bit like the one below which I kept until high school when I got a grown up manual typewriter.

For the Dominate Mommies

It's funny how so much of the stuff you read around being a little and the Adults who act very much as their 'Parents' is so Daddy orientated not that being a Daddy figure is in anyway wrong but an equally good dynamic for a little girl is Mommy having had some Female Adult Authority figures as a child who you'd not upset in a hurry!
I could just imagine myself being the girl she's spanking in this picture.

What is THIS, Jo?

 

One situation I can well recall is this one.

You're in class supposed to be working hard but figured with everyone else 'Teach' would be too busy to notice you're not doing much but he walks on up and comes to the back of your desk.

You feel that hand on the shoulder as the lecture begins, fingers point to what he wants you to pick and do knowing the slightest hesitancy well lead to you being whisked away for a spanking before being brought back to class in front of your peers.

It happened a number of times with me.

Missed opportunities

 

Although I talk quite a bit on this blog around my need for and experiences of child-like discipline, you would be very wide of the mark if you didn't  see this as having an element of protection from that which is inappropriate or otherwise undermining my adult middle innocence.

Because how aspects of my childhood disabilities have left me I have more vulnerabilities than adults and even teens have being for want of a better expression, "wide eyed" , not really seeing what's around the corner that people can and as hard as it is type this have taken advantage of sometimes with serious repercussions.

Having set systems that put protecting me from this that are agreed with me which may include consequences if I don't follow them makes sense if you remember by needs rather than by actual age, mine are more like a childs.

Sleep and a Middle

The more Junior me sleeps in sensible girlish night attire like PJ's with stuffies and a teddy bear I hug if I wake up all scared from a nightmare cos along with the other more child-like sides of me I do have things like that.
I find a fixed bedroom routine can help in getting me to sleep nut when grown ups try to get me on theirs cos it may fit in better with their ideas, it never works out right.
It just underscores why little space and being able to live in it matters so much to me.