Dear Me – Birth to 10 years old

Published September 14, 2012 | By Confessions of a single mum

Hello Me and welcome to the world. You’re going to see a lot happen in the next 10 years. If you bought a house in the year you were born you would only have to fork out £5,632. Doesn’t sound much does it, but then I doubt your mum and dad was hardly racking it in. It’s all relative. By the time you celebrate your 10^th birthday house prices will have raised to £24,188.

In the next ten years you’re going to learn to walk, talk and all those other handy things that you need for life. You’re going to learn that the mum and dad looking after you aren’t your natural parents but your adoptive parents. Don’t worry they don’t sit you down and shock you, you just grow up knowing. It sort of makes you the cool kid at school as it makes you a bit different.

You’re going to move from the big town house in a busy city to a small house in the country when your about 7. Your mum doesn’t work so you will spend your summer holidays walking to the nearest beach and whinging all the way home. Life and school work is uncomplicated and easy. Enjoy these years as it won’t always stay that way.

In the big wide world Bic launch their first disposable razor. Trust me you will benefit from this in years to come. Oh and another thing that is going to have a major impact in your later life, they launch the microcomputer Altair 8800 and Apple computer. At the time it means nothing to you and your dad declares it will be a 5 minute wonder, but in around 35 years’ time you will understand.

The only advice I can give you for the next ten years is to enjoy it.