Things you believed as children....

Oh that's so sweet absent.

Redhead56

I didn’t eat crusts because I had curly hair.

Same here!

I was told that if I lay on my back on the floor to dry my hair at the fire (which I did in my early teens ) then I would "melt my marrow" I pictured something running down my back but was always sceptical and continued to do it.

absent I don't like things like that very much. Some jokes aren't funny for children.

Something I believed in childhood, that just left me with a phobia as an adult.

I went downstairs with ear pain, I must have been 9 or 10. My stepdad told me I had an earwig in there and to go back to bed. I cried for a while

WHAT are you saying about Piggy??? I have never thought he did anything other than go to the market to do shopping!!!

Oh, the rhyme is ruined now.

CanadianGran picture them in dungerees with a little shopping bag and it will be fine again, promise

I don't know if I can now! I just googled it, and you are right.

Oh, the depth of my dismay .....

Next thing you are going to tell me that 'round and round the garden' has some deep evil meaning!

Lol!

I thought that Arkansas and Arkansaw were 2 different places

That was only rectified when I was in my 50s.

And I also believe, (and still do) that the little pig had gone shopping.

My Mum always told me it was rude to point. I grew up never pointing at anything even if it was something like "look there's a castle over there"

I was quite old before I realised she meant it was rude to point at people !

I just remember at the age of 16 were were writing the year 1966, when it suddenly occurred to me that eventually there would be a year 2000. It was quite a shock. I even realised I would be 50 then. I couldn't take in either the year no longer being 19** any more, or the fact I would be 50 years old. Neither seems remotely possible, so I dismissed them as science fiction!

As a child in the 50s I believed that the children depicted in books of the time led ‘normal’ lives and as my experience was so very different that my life must be wrong in some way. I still believe that now, but it has led me to work with abused and neglected children and to campaign against poverty, especially as it affects children. I have huge admiration for Marcus Rashford.

I believed that one day I would be able to play a piano.
Unlikely, as we didn't have a piano and I never had lessons.

I'm sure my school reading book told me that the noise of thunder was caused by the air coming together again after being split by lightning.

Fairies. My mum used to send me into the garden to look for them and I really believed I could see some. I could even describe them. Imagination is a wonderful thing.
On a sadder note I just accepted being hit and having bruises all up my legs and I was surprised that other kids didn’t have them.

Oh nanna8

For some reason as a child I was convinced that if I damaged my navel, I'd unravel.....
I took sticking plasters from the cupboard and put one on every day

When I was seven I asked my big, wise, brother how he could tell the difference between girl and boy cows. He told me, very solemnly, that girls cows had long curly horns, like I had long curly hair. I never saw many girl cows, I wonder why?

VioletSky

Also I learnt that the little piggy didn't go to market to buy groceries...

I learned that only very recently!

I thought life went on for ever,, only recently found that it doesn`t (in my 80`s now)

At the age of 5 in the infants as a class we built a rocket as a class project, I truly believed we were going to the moon at 61 still dissapointed we didn't go.

My father told me that you didn't have to pay for beer if the pub had a 'Free House' sign outside.

That adults had all the answers.
That I’d be wiser and know everything when I became an adult.
It didn’t happen and I now ask my children to fix my computer problems.
My children know everything about everything.

I thought that you would die if you swallowed chewing gum.

@Santana
That eating my crusts would give me curly hair.

That one worked for me... it just took a VERY long time - my 'gift' from crusts (and menopause) has been the lovely curty hair I always wanted!

I thought that if you swallowed bubble gum or chewing gum it gave you appendicitis!