Growing up is sometimes hard to do, but there’s often a lot of fun along the way.
These old photos selected from the Evening News archive offer a glimpse of what it was like to be a youngster in Edinburgh 40 years ago - including pictures of some of the city’s most popular places at the time, like Gorgie City Farm and Little Marco’s.
Scroll through and get a flavour of a Capital childhood in the mid-1980s.
9. Inverleith pond
Children sliding on a frozen Inverleith pond, iced over during the cold weather in February 1985. | TSPL Photo: Alan Ledgerwood
10. Bike stamps
Constable Graeme Harvey stamps the postcode onto local children's bikes outside South Queensferry police station in March 1984. | TSPL Photo: Bob Wallace
11. Royal visit
Princess Alexandra chats to some local children at the opening of a new leukaemia treatment centre next to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh, April 1985. | TSPL Photo: Denis Straughan
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12. Band Aid appeal
Pupils at Broughton High School in Edinburgh collected three tons of food for African famine relief, part of the Band Aid appeal, in November 1985. | TSPL Photo: Crauford Tait