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.
33. Book shop
A little girl sitting cross-legged on the floor of James Thin's bookshop reading her book in October 1986. | TSPL Photo: Bill Stout
34. Gorgie City Farm
Five-year-old Robert Brown meets Rambo the rabbit at Edinburgh's Gorgie City Farm open day in September 1986 | TSPL Photo: Alan Macdonald
35. Dunsapie Loch
A little girl, wrapped up in her raincoat and Wellingtons, feeding the geese and ducks at Dunsapie Loch during the (then) coldest April on record. Picture taken in April 1986. | TSPL Photo: Alan Macdonald
36. Face painting
Face painting at the Muirhouse Festival beach party on the Firth of Forth in July 1986. | TSPL Photo: Albert Jordan