Researchers have discovered the top 40 things we miss most about being a child - such as never paying bills, having all your meals cooked for you...
and traditions such as Easter egg hunts. A study of 2,000 Brits uncovered what people yearn for, with 61 per cent admitting they have lost their sense of fun and playfulness as they've got older.
Being bought chocolates and sweets, spending time with family and jumping in puddles also feature in the list. It also emerged that adults feel they have become less carefree (52 per cent), generous (12 per cent) and caring (12 per cent) than they were as a child.
But 22 per cent would like to share their favourite aspects of childhood with their own or future children so they can experience them
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