Things you believed as children....

Daisytwoshoes

Oh nooo I always thought the piggy went to market to go shopping until I read this thread
I always thought babies came out of your tummy button
Spent years worrying how on earth that could happen !

Yes I too thought that babies came out of your tummy button, but only when you had placed the wedding ring over it. I thought this for a good few years!

I knew all about piggies as a child living next door to a pig/chicken farm!

I thought that grown-ups could do exactly as they pleased. No school, eating what they liked, wearing what they liked and never told off. They also had limitless money and could stay up all night.

I believed if I sat with my back too close to the fire to dry my long hair I'd get a weak liver. I imagined my liver was the muscles in my back.

I thought that a male only had to stand fairly close to you while you were having a period for the girl to get pregnant. I thought courting couples in shop doorways were trying to conceive. I was about 12 or 13, I suppose.

I found out about the piggy about 3 minutes ago ?. I'm 66.

I thought (until I was about 11) that as Australia had their winter when we had our summer that when it was December in the U.K., it was June in Australia… ?

I also, genuinely, believed that my Mum could read my mind until I was about 10!!! She always knew when we were up to something, so maybe she could… ???

I always believed that "someone had told" my mum what I'd been up to.
I always wished they'd mind their business, then mum told me she only said things to get the truth out of us. I was about 35.

When I asked my dad
“where did I come from?”
He told him that I came from
“The Shullullerbug Islands”.
I never found it on a globe and thought that they had to such tiny islands.

You can’t disillusion me. It went to market to do the shopping.

My Irish friend says they ate bread and butter but mine ate roast beef

I don't remember believing any of the stories I was told as a child, tooth fairies and Father Christmas included. I always knew the latter was my Dad and the former my mother. I must be a born cynic!

I remember the exact moment my son lost faith in the tooth fairy. He woke, looked under his pillow and the tooth was still there. OMG, I'd completely forgotten. I got a coin and secretly dropped it behind the bed "Oh. Don't worry. There it is, it's fallen down the back." But it was too late, his look of betrayal said it all.

My older brothers told me the GB stickers on the cars. Meant the drivers were getting better!