I think it’s a sign of how much I would NOT like to go back to the 1950s at all, much less go back and meet my teen father as a teen girl that I would probably pick the dog thing here.

I really, really don’t like dogs. I’m happy to leave all of them to the dog-lovers (as, I’m sure, are the dogs)!!! Given this karma, though, if I were to turn into a dog every night, I probably would end up with an apathetic owner, and it’d be my job to win them over. Oh wait, is that the plot here? I truly don’t know 😭

I would have to change this to my teen mother but that would definitely be my choice over turning into a dog (or any animal).

Hang out with a teenage version of my dad. He has very fond memories of his A-days. Sadly, we didn't get to converse properly with our paternal grandfather to corroborate his memories - the journey down my ancestral home is a journey. In addition to that, we couldn't properly communicate in our father's tongue so even in the few times we were able to make the trip, conversations were zero.

Hanging out with his teenage version = I don't need my granddad to corroborate and it'll be a first hand front seat experience watching those memories of his unfold.

Thinking purely about survival, I think I’d have to go hang out with my teenage father. Living as a stray dog sounds way too stressful. Not to mention, would I be aware of all the things I was sniffing and licking as a dog? 🤢 Traveling far back in time would be interesting as the town my dad grew up in no longer exists and I never met my paternal grandparents. But I’d really like to make sure I could return to the present eventually!

Nope to sniffing, licking dog-ness, no matter how cute! But I revise the hanging out to being w my Mom all the way 😘

This is entirely selfish and based on my ignorance of dog plots: I'd go and hang out with my teen dad. He's been dead for a long time, and I have a vague memory of having seen a photo of him at about 20 with a full fluff of curly hair almost afro style. I'd be totally up for seeing that in real life.

Also I might touch a word on getting his heart checked and fixed, because imagine how cool it would be for him to meet the person in my life and the life I've built with them... and we could all watch k dramas together.

Finally something easy!))) My father is a VERY fabulous individual and his teen years happened during such a wild era that even he himself was uneasy to share tidbits of his objectively insane bio with me until I grew up. And then some. Actually I had to reassure him repeatedly many times that I CAN understand and won't be judgemental just for the sake of it. Last few years our communication in general was the best ever, so I'm CERTAIN that if we met when we were of the same age, we would've get along pretty well for a two people with this much personality. Not that we have a lot of an age gap to begin with lmao - I'm a child of shotgun teen marriage in case if you didn't already know - but if there was none at all I would've LOVE it. Was extremely moody lonely as a teen and lack of interesting people with brains to talk to was the biggest struggle of my youth. His as well, even he'll never admit it out loud because that's UNCOOL...

As much as I adore dogs, I wouldn't want to know the wild life they live. On the other hand it would be cool to hang out with the younger version of my dad. What made him tick; what kind of life he'd been living and such. It would help me to understand him better.

This is another Neither for me.

Turning into a dog every night is problematic: do dogs dream? I like my current dream state.
Hanging out with my teen father like Back to the Future would be just weird and not very insightful.

Neither.

Hanging out with my teen father would mean Great Depression, no internet...

But if I could turn into a CAT, with a nice human to dominate like the kid in Kidnapping Day dominates her new "father", then purr..... And call it Catnapping Day.

Dogs are cute but I'm a cat lover. Really though, my parents had me and my brother and sister late in life so I lost them both pretty early. My grandparents all died before I was born so I would just LOVE to go back in time and see how my dad and aunts and uncles were in their youth. I would love to have a deeper better relationship with him and I can keep it a secret that he was really my dad! I was at an classic car show 2 months ago and they had old old ford coupes there. Well, my dad would have been a teenager when some of those cars were NEW so it got me thinking of how much I could learn about the early 1900's and how my dad fit into all of it. So much history to learn about! How did he get around? what was school like? So many things I could learn about him (and me).

I would like to go back and spend some time with my father when he was young and full of energy, when he was not in pain and his body hadn't started failing him yet.

If we are talking about being of similar age, I would join him on one of his summer tracks through the country wilderness, with a backpack... and a quitar. We would walk and talk and sing and sleep under the starry sky. Something we both did when we were teenagers and young adults... and what I definitely wouldn't mind doing together.

If it's about the current me suddenly transporting back to the teenage years of my father, I would still like to have the talks and see him grow (my sons are about the same age now). But no backpacking, I'm too old for that now. 😆

If there's a reincarnation, I will choose to live peacefully as a cat, but as a dog for one night? It is not bad.

As much as dogs can be cute, that will be a no! There is a huge risk of getting into icky stuffs.
I'd rather hang out with a teenage version of my parent and hangout with them all day rather than be an animal.

A dog.

I adore my father. He is the most incredible, progressive man who gave his daughters the best he could, including detailed long and short stories of his life from childhood to this day.
Recently, we had this discussion somewhere, and the topic of east Asian, Confucianism-influenced culture came up: a woman being as free as the man allows her to be.
That was true of our household growing up. In retrospect, as an adult, I realised a few things that troubled me, one being that he, at the end of the day, was a product of his time, and he was not always as progressive as he later learned to be. So I know for sure this is how I want to remember him, and I would rather not know all the yucky, regressive thoughts of his growing-up teen years.

On the other hand, I am an absolute K-9 at heart. Had I been born in this generation, I probably would have become one of those furry club members. Hence, I am happy to settle for being a dog, even if it's just for the night. Not only do I get to hang out and speak to my furbabies in their language, but I have always wanted to know what treasures are buried in the sludge in the woods behind our backyard. That would be one quick way to find out.

Even if I wanted to hang out with a teenage version of my mom, I'm pretty sure she wouldn't hang out with me. My mom was like a popular girl from an American teen movie and I am the type of person those girls hate. 😂😂 My mom wouldn't bully me or anything, but she definitely would judge me from afar. LOL

Being a dog every night... Dang. I guess I'm fine being me every night, and hanging out with my adult mom. 😂

I miss my dad, but early 1970s China was a terrible time with the Cultural Revolution. He didn't get more than a middle school education and was sent to work in the countryside.

I wouldn't mind turning into a dog during the night, especially if I get to be a cute small dog like the one in Good Day to be a Dog. I'm in bed by midnight anyways.

My dad was a bit of a weirdo when he was a teenager (still is a bit, tbh), but pretty harmless, so I’m going with that. I know that the premise of the drama involves both being a teenager yourself and time travel, but the prompt doesn’t, so I’m not overly concerned about those aspects (and will not accept them in my choice). For me it just comes down to logistics - even if you magically kept your clothes during the transformation it would still be a real pain to have to plan everything about your life around those hours when you are a dog.

I'd love to be able to hang out with a teenage version of my dad. We weren't able to spend much time together (estranged for a time, passed soon after we reconnected), so it would be nice to get to know him better, even if it's with his younger self.

Caveat: no future-changing stuff! I know our relationship wasn't ideal, but I don't wanna deal with worrying about the ripples my actions/decisions in the past will make in my future.

I think what non-dog owners don't realize is that if you turn into a dog each night you do what I wish I could do now, which is to sleep pretty soundly for 12 hours, your rest scarcely interrupted, maybe with a few action dreams where you run in your sleep and chase imaginary squirrels. You would wake up as a human totally refreshed, and no squirrels at your bird feeder.

If you go back in the past to meet your Dad, you risk changing the future and eliminating your own existence. Plus no matter how much I loved my Dad, a surest way to lose respect for him would be to meet him as a teenager, when even the best of men are struggling to define themselves. Besides, if I met him while he was defining himself, and I helped define him, and he then helped define me as I had defined him then we'd be stuck in this endless cycle. I'd be setback in my progress toward nirvana, and then when I reincarnated it would be as a lesser being, likely a dog. So either way, I'm going to the dog(s).

Just as @attiton and @diana-hansen I am a cat lover, so unless wa can do as @lordcobol imagined and transform into a cat, I'll pass.
I'm not very informed about my teeager father but he wanted to go to the seminar (and did) while his younger brothers organised legendaries costumed parties... I'll fit with neither but I'll take this chance to change the future/present. Contrary to @aicaramba and @hacja that's my goal: changing the events. Being in the past with my knowledge, I could be an activist since I'd have nothing to loose.

A very difficult choice. I certainly wouldn't want to be a dog, but the second choice isn't nice either. When my father was a teenager, my country was communist and if I had suddenly appeared out of nowhere, without documents, I would have been sent to prison, suspected of being a spy, or to a psychiatric hospital. Even if I had been luckier, life was still hopeless in my country behind the Iron Curtain.

I really would like the latter bc my dad doesnt really talk much or write anything down and it is the only way for me to get to know what he used to be like

I would love to see my dad as a teenager!

I would gladly go back and live during the Great Depression if it gave me the opportunity to meet my teenaged dad. Apparently, he was a fun-loving, outgoing young man, until he came back after serving in the South Pacific during WWII. He would never talk to me about it, but older relatives hinted that he had witnessed some pretty horrific things in the war.

This all happened well before I was born. The father I grew up with was emotionally withdrawn and probably suffering from PTSD and depression. I would love to spend time with the happier, more voluble version of him. (I’d also work hard to get him to stop smoking; he died of cancer when he was only 69.)

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