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.
25. Cabbage Patch Kid 1985
A giant Cabbage Patch Kid and 10-year-old Krisha Jacobs, with a Cabbage Patch doll, visited the Sick Children's Hospital in Edinburgh in October 1985. | TSPL Photo: George Smith
26. World War II project
Wardie primary school pupils dressed as nurses, evacuees and Cub Scouts as part of the Edinburgh school's World War II project in March 1985. | TSPL Photo: Crauford Tait
27. Vintage clothes 1985
First Year history pupils from George Heriots school in Edinburgh, dressed in vintage clothing from the Royal Museum of Scotland in December 1985. Jennifer McNeill in a 1920s 'flapper' dress dances the Charleston. | TSPPL Photo: Joe Steele
28. Fringe inflatable
Children playing on a large inflatable on Fringe Sunday in Holyrood Park during the Edinburgh Festival 1986 | TSPL Photo: Bill Stout