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.
17. 'O' grade exams
Pupils from Edinburgh's Broughton High School in the classroom sitting their 'O' grade exams in April 1985. A teacher on invigilation durites stands at the front of the room. | TSPL Photo: Alan Macdonald
18. Duddingston Loch
Dusk catches children playing on a frozen Duddingston Loch in Edinburgh, iced over during the cold weather in February 1985. | TSPL Photo: Alan Macdonald
19. Pony rides
Nanoushka provides pony rides for children at The Meadows festival in Edinburgh, June 1985. | TSPL Photo: Bill Stout
20. Interviewing tourists
Children from Leith Walk primary school, clipboards at the ready to interview tourists at Edinburgh Castle in June 1985 for the Doomsday Project: Life in the Eighties. From left: Kevin McLean, Richard Petrie, Andrew Fraser, Brian Logan, Joyce Gillan and Nancy Anderson. | TSPL Photo: Crauford Tait