Things You Believed As A Kid General Chat

[Bandit]

My Dad told me if you unscrewed your belly button, your bum would fall off. He used to threaten to do it when he got a screwdriver out.

I believed this until I was about 6 years old

What things did you use to think/believe when you were a bairn?

 

[Shelby]

Tree would grow out of your head if you ate the seeds in an apple

 

[hannah]

Don't pull your face because if the wind changes direction your face will stick, I believed that for years.

 

[Gemma]

My Dad told me if you unscrewed your belly button, your bum would fall off. He used to threaten to do it when he got a screwdriver out.

Aww, imagine telling your kid that!

Tree would grow out of your head if you ate the seeds in an apple

Don't pull your face because if the wind changes direction your face will stick, I believed that for years.

I used to believe both of those too.

We got told that watching the TV for too long would give you square eyes. I never thought to question if this was a bad thing or if you look at a tree for too long, do you get tree-shaped eyes.

My older cousin told me when I was about 7 or 8 that a monster called Oddbod lived in an old car park so for a few years I refused to go along the walkway beside the car park.

 

[Tom]

I used to think chickens and hens were totally different species. Always confused me why you didn't get chicken eggs or hen burgers.

 

[David76]

That everything in the past was black and white, colour only happened in the present.

That a bus driver got to keep all his takings each journey

 

[Dylan]

A few of the above are familiar - eating fruit seeds, pulling faces and square eyes

If you swallowed chewing gum it would wrap itself around your insides and kill you.

 

[Birdman]

The old classic of cruel parenting, my dad always told me ice cream vans only put on their chimes to warn they had ran out of stock so don't bother going.

 

[Shelby]

I must have been a right daftie, I also thought if something wasn't sold it would become a toilet. Think I was a teenager before I realised it said "For Sale or To Let"