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.
13. New playground
A mother and children playing on the roundabout at the new playground in the East Meadows, Edinburgh, August 1985. | TSPL Photo: Stan Warburton
14. Vintage tractor
Young Robbie Simmons at the controls of a vintage tractor on display at the Royal Highland Show at Ingliston, June 1985. | TSPL Photo: Alan Ledgerwood
15. Portrait painting
A little girl has her portrait drawn by a street artist during Edinburgh Festival 1985. | TSPL Photo: Hamish Campbell
16. Lollipop protest
Youngsters Sarah Scobie and David White at a demonstration by Edinburgh school crossing patrols, voicing fears that cuts to their hours could put children at risk, March 1985. | TSPL Photo: Brian Stewart