Things you believed as children....

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!

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 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.

Lol!

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!

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

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.

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

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.

Redhead56

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

Same here!

Oh that's so sweet absent.

My father and older sister told me all about the film matinées for dogs after the children's films had finished on a Saturday morning. They explained that the chair seats tipped up so that dogs could sit on top and see the screen and that the usherettes came around in the interval with trays of dog biscuits. Of course, the films screened included Lassie and Rin Tin Tin.

I cried my self to sleep when I realised that they were making it all up.

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

I was amazed when I discovered Enid Blyton was a woman. I’d never heard the name Enid, and I suppose I thought well-known authors must be men. That was only when I was a child, though.

Living in a farming area I thought turf accountants sold fields

Father Christmas of course. That my dad was and would always be my hero; wrong I'm afraid and that unlike sticks and stones, words could never hurt me.

Wrong again.

That eating my crusts would give me curly hair.

Sweetpeasue

Correction---
That Dr's ALWAYS made you better.

I can relate <3

A neighbor told me that if I swallowed an apple pip, an apple tree would grow in my tummy, spent a lot of time worrying about that one.

There was a shed on the top of the mountain where the water changed direction.

Correction---
That Dr's ALWAYS made you better.

Definitely Father Christmas.
That I wouldn't get old!
That Dr's made you better? ?

If you swallowed bubbly gum it stuck your lungs together. I had one or two panics growing up after accidentally swallowing it.
If the wind changed when you were pulling a face it’d stay like that (your face I mean).
That I was a shoe in to be a member of pans people when I got to 16.

Juliet that made me laugh, I think I put them together with the 3 little pigs so all the little piggies wore dungarees and definitely weren't bacon

Ashcombe

I thought that people grew smaller as they aged because my elderly great aunt was a similar height to me!

Uh oh... Me too