The same advice I gave my children.....enjoy just being a child. In the whole spectrum of life, there are so few years dedicated to being a child.

I had a happy childhood for the most part....and a happy adulthood for the most part too. Sure...some heart wrenching losses and problems that seemed insurmountable at the time but that is life. I think if you never have losses and sadness, you can't fully appreciate happiness. I don't think I would lay anything too heavy on my 8 yr old self .. it would have worried me too much. I was well aware that my parents were old enough to be my grandparents and sometimes I worried that they would die. I think I would tell my 8 yr old self, relax. They will live to see you grown and mother will live into her 90s

Life is short. Don't hold grudges, be kind and take pleasure in simple things.

I totally read it wrong but no time to change it now. Well....my 8 yr old self would tell me to ride my horses more.

My 8 year old self would give horrible advice to an adult. Maybe to worry less and just enjoy the ice cream

I was a terrible worrier, but I think that trait was just built into my heart and soul. I'm better, but still think wayyy to much about several things.

But I definitely would have told my 8-year-old self to be more involved and more active in whatever I could find. Then again, in suburbia kids have depend on adults to drive them places and that wouldn't have been very possible for me.

Do not give up on any thing , just because adults say you can not do it. Keep trying even if your sisters can do it better then you ever will be able.

"What advice would YOU give your grown self when you were 8yo?"

As an 8 yr old, I would tell my grown self to just quit worrying about everything. Doesn't do any good anyway.

marilyn is right, people are reading this backwards.

The advice my 8 year old self would tell me for use as an adult would be "Don't forget you were 8 years old once. It's okay to act and do things like an 8 year old sometimes (responsibly) when you grow up. You don't need to act like an adult all the time."

Eight year old self might advise:

Ride your bike every chance you get. Play football with friends. Swim. Be fair. Make things.

See if your brothers and sisters have anything interesting to tell you or to do with you. Pick up fossils and quartz.

Look for the best trees. Pick wild fruit. Don't break things. Go places you've never been.

Try to figure out mysteries. Don't cut your own hair. Don't cut your siblings' hair. Stay away from mean people.

Don't count on Mom to keep your paper doll collection forever!

My eight-year-old self would be entirely too shy and lacking in confidence and chutzpah to tell my adult self anything.

I didn't read it backwards. That's the type of advice my eight year old self would have given. I was one of those kids who always considered other people's feelings, tended to be the peace maker and who loved the simple pleasures in life such as eating a bowl of ice cream for breakfast.

My eight your old vocabulary might have worded it differently, but the advice would be the same - Don't stay mad, be nice and eat ice cream for breakfast. There.

Get a trampoline and invite your friends to come and play.

(What I think our 8-year-old DGD would say.)

To have more confidence: to say yes rather than no.

At eight I already knew that adults tended to tell you a cleaned up version of many things. I would have them tell me at least the truth as they knew it rather than dance around a subject. I would rather someone state that something would not happen and why rather than the "we'll see".

Develop a hobby.

My 8 year old self would tell my adult self to buy a house with a swimming pool, and that is what I just did this a couple of weeks ago. It took me way too long to do it, but I am very happy now that I finally did.

Sleep on it, you'll feel better in the morning. I worry too much, always have. As I've aged I learned this has worked the best for all the options out there.

I'd tell myself to get a dog, a rescue. I'd be adding a friend to my life, can never have too many friends.

off the top of my head I would say study hard, learn an instrument, enjoy the sweet smell of roses, the beauty of earth. I'm so glad I grew up on a farm, I learned the simple things of life are really the best!

I would tell myself those kids learned about bullying from someone. Watch out for the older people too. Oh wait I already did tell myself that. My life is way more peaceful since I don't work with any bullies. It is a lot quieter in a good way.

Ask for braces.

When I was 8 yr old, I did not have enough experience to have a good view of adult life. At that age, I thought that adult life was much more exciting and glamorous than my 8 yr old life, and they did not have to go to school, or so I thought! I would have told myself to go have more fun and don't worry about things. As an adult, there would always be enough money (hah!). I would have said, you will be big and strong, do things you always wanted to do like explore a mountain, fish in the ocean, ride a motorcycle, or fly an airplane.

Buy lots of Microsoft stock in the late 80s

Oh man...good one!! LOL!