1. Dutch kids live off of these things:
#GrowingUpDutch you can live off these
Bapao for life <3
2. And let's not forget these bad boys:
3. After school your mum would get out the toaster for some gooey cheese toasties.
#growingupdutch always for lunch after school 🙈😌
4. You'd eat your toastie and watch any of these shows:
#growingupdutch these tv shows man
Plopper de plopper de plop!
5. This guy taught you how to stack your fists on top of each other.
#growingupdutch DEZE VUIST OP DEZE VUIST.. 😂
6. Your cool factor was dictated by how much Diddle stationery you owned.
Collecting Diddle stationery and trading pages of your notepads with other kids. #GrowingUpDutch
7. School parties always involved some strange obstacle course like this:
Always doing this game at a summer party at school #growingupdutch
8. Your birthday involved having to plan two parties: one for the kids and one for the adults.
#growingupdutch als je jarig was gaf je een kinderfeest en een grote mensen feest
The kid one was fun, the adult one mainly involved sitting in a circle, having to talk to your great aunt.
9. There were many, many birthday songs you had to sing.
#GrowingUpDutch 'happy birsday to you, in de wei staat een koe en de koe zegt i love you, happy birsday to you'
Dutch people also struggle pronouncing the word "birthday".
10. There was always a fight about who got to sit next to the birthday boy/girl.
11. Every single party or milestone was accompanied by rocket ice lollies.
12. Dutch kids tell the worst jokes.
#GrowingUpDutch "ken je hem?" "wie?" "kiwi!!" + "kan je erbij?" "waarbij?" "aardbei!!!" smh
13. And chant tons of annoying rhymes like this:
#growingupdutch "waarom?" "daarom" "daarom is geen rede, als je van de trap af valt, ben je gauw beneden"
14. '90s kids spent a lot of their time singing along to a track called "The Boob Song."
#GrowingUpDutch Listening to Kinderen voor Kinderen and laughing at the song about boobies https://t.co/5gePNk3gCl
15. The first fandom you ever belonged to was K3.
#GrowingUpDutch if you know you knowww.
We miss Kathleen ;(
16. We don't have Disney in the Netherlands, but we do have De Efteling!!!
#growingupdutch do i even need to say anything?
17. And Het Land Van Ooit.
#growingupdutch if you ever went to "land van ooit"
The theme park's tag line, "Kid's are the boss", was always a letdown, leading to situations like this:
"MUM, INSTEAD OF LUNCH I'M GOING TO EAT THIS ENTIRE BAG OF POPCORN!"
"No."
"BUT I'M THE BOSS!"
"No, I'm the boss."
Talk about false advertising.
18. Dutch kids love to play tricks on each other:
"Ben je bang voor je vader en moeder?" #GrowingUpDutch
"Are you afraid of your dad and mother?"
"No....?"
"YOU BLINKED! You're AFRAID!"
19. Your first words were most likely "moon," "rose," and "fish."
Maan roos vis #GrowingUpDutch
20. You spent the majority of your time fretting about Dutch grammar.
21. Our national anthem, the Wilhelmus, is quite tricky too.
#growingupdutch only knowing the first verse of the national anthem
22. As a Dutch kid you have to bike to school, no matter what.
" mom i think its gonna rain can u bring me to school?" " no its beautiful outside go with ur bike" #growingupdutch
23. And it's super uncool to wear one of those rain capes.
No matter how hard its raining i would rather be all wet than wear one of these #growingupdutch
24. Luckily HEMA had these handy waterproof trousers.
niks tegen mijn hema regenbroek.
25. To ensure your shoes didn't get soaked, you'd bike like this.
When its raining outside and u dont want ur shoes to be wet so u be like #growingupdutch
26. It would take you about five hours to find your bike in the school bike stalls.
#GrowingUpDutch: Bicycles
27. And lastly, this annoyed all Dutch kids — and adults for that matter:
#GrowingUpDutch Foreigners that think that 'Holland' and 'The Netherlands' are different countries. :-I
