What We Kids Believe

As young children we come to our own conclusions in life. What I want to know is what sort of silly things did you believe as a child?

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As a child I believed that if it were day or night here then everywhere else in the world at that time was either day or night too. If it was raining, snowing or the sun was shining, etc. then everywhere else in the world at that time it was too. :P

^ No, I won't laugh. But that's damn cute thinking that you could watch your show later if you unplugged the tv when it started.

Hmm... I use to think that whenever someone said they were looking for a "date" that they were looking for a big raisin that made you poop... Seriously, no lie, I didn't just steal that from the movie "Rugrats in Paris"! Nope. :P

This is going to sound a little racist, and I hope I don't offend anyone, but when I was little I thought that people with different colored skin just needed to take a bath cause they were dirty. My dads best friend when I was growing up was black, and one day he thought I was giving him a back massage. Then he turned around when he felt his back get all wet and asked me what I was doing. I told him he was dirty and that I was trying to clean him. :-)

This topic has caused me to reminisce about my early childhood
I attended a private catholic school complete with the Dominican Nuns wearing the old fashion Dominican habits, yet I do not recall ever wondering how they used a public restroom

I cannot recall one of them ever cutting the cheese either

When I was about 8 my uncle told me that olives were pig eyes. I believed him and I never ate an olive until I was about 15.

That was told to me though, I think that one thing I believed on my own was ... if you drew a heart on someone they'd be nice to you. My mom always told me that people with hearts were nice. So, I used to draw hearts on people (if possible) thinking that it would make them nice.

I thought "dog days" were when dogs had puppies.

I guess mine is common... I believed that teachers and principles lived in the school, I never knew that they actually had lives until I was in 5th or 6th grade.

I believed that the moon was actually an old mans floating head... that scared me to death at night... when I figured out that it wasn't I thought black holes were the crators in the moon.

I thought months were days.

I was firmly convinced, and still kind of am, that all my dolls and stuffed animals were quite alive, and had adventures when I wasn't around.

Also, my backyard kind of lies on top of a shallow hill, and I thought that the curvature of the hill was the curvature of the earth.

I love that quote from Grey's Anatomy.

I used to believe my dolls were alive too. I kept thinking they were hiding things from me.

I used to think that when people said "I have you in my heart" or "I love you" it meant that they actually had a minature version of you inside their heart, made out of plastic or something. I wasn't ever aware that the heart had a function to do for the body. I just thought you kept all the people you love in there, like a little storage box. Haha. I was a strange child.

I used to believe that the sparkly dust which formed when light hit floating dust was actually fairy dust and I looked around for tinkerbell.

When I was 3,4,5 around that time..

I believed that the Sun and Moon was following me. It is because it is so big and as my parents were driving me to my grandma's or school, I saw the sun and it wouldn't go away =)

I believed in Magic too =) one day I was living in an apartment and my room was shared with my dads office and I descided to make a potion with baby powder, lotion, perfume, and water.......In the end my room/dads office was a huge winter wonder land covered in powder and lotion..and I got in huge trouble that day...but I just thought the fairies was just leaving their residue...

I had tons of barbies also and I could have swore on my life (back then) that my barbies moved while I was either gone or asleep. I thought that they were partying with my stuff animals =)

^ I thought the same way about magic and stuff like that... when the movie flubber came out I tried to make it, got some toothpaste, flour, some kind of green formula and I tried to melt plastic into it.... it was a gooey mess!

I remember watching a movie where a boy had tiny soldiers and indian action figures he hid in a tiny cupboard and when he took them out they came alive... I thought that wa true too.

As a little kid when i saw jets go up and little clouds of smoke behind them I used to say there was someone going to heaven.

I believed I could control the wind. I used to get dressed up in my Mothers old Rabbit skin coat, grab a long stick and run around my back garden shouting at the wind in some weird random language.

I used to believe I could see energy in the air ( turns out I was just hungry alot..you know those little white things you see when you are hungry)

I used to believe I could make myself invisible by not thinking about anything and moving around really quickly..

yeah...we never change..

I guess i always believed in prince charming and for some reason i just refuse to let go of that one

^ every girl believes there is a prince charming out there for her.

Toys coming alive definately!
I also believed my Dad when he told me he was a football player for England, and a Formula One driver, and a bunch of other cool jobs.
I told all my friends about it at school.

Then I realised when I was like, 7 or 8 that Dad was really a milkman.

My friends and I also beieved that there was a witch living in the woods next to the school field at school and we used to stay away from there. Once the teacher had us searching for bugs at the edge of the woods and my friends and I refused to go near the trees and had to go inside as we'd all started crying hysterically.

Haha!

I used to believe that the sparkly dust which formed when light hit floating was angles and i would talk to the dust and try to find god..

This might be a bit gross, but I just had to tell it.

When my brother was really little he used to think that his.. private.. was actually a tail, and he asked my mom why his tail was in the front instead of the back. XD

LOL ! haha
when my cousin was small she saw my younger brothers private and shes like to my mum why dont i have one ? is it cause mine hasnt grown yet ? hhahah xD

I used to sit at the toilet screaming into it thinking people in China could hear me...
My older brother had once told me if I did it every night at midnight that they'd soon answer me back!

These are just precious & bringing back so many memories; so much deja vu! Keep it up! ;)

I thought that if I stuck a fork in the outlet, I'd turn into fried chicken like on the cartoons. I never tried it of course, cause I never wanted to be a chicken.

When I was a child I thought that black people had gotten to much sun, that children were born though there Mummy's belly button and yhat my father was invincible he is dead now but I now know it was true ha! ha!

I used to think that rays of sun shining through dark clouds were people going up to heaven, like you see in those alien movies where the light beam brings people up into the ship...

And rainbows actually had a pot of gold at the end. I always looked for it. Haha

This isn't about me but a few days ago my mom was giving my little sister a shower, and since she has downsyndrome she didn't understand why her body was changing. So she looked at my mom and was like, what are these things (pointed to her chest), and my mom said those are you boobies your growing up to be a big girl, and Keslie was like, I dont yike 'em mommy, can I pull 'em off, I'll put them back on when im old like you. I thought it was the most cutest thing ever.

^^ Awww.
My mum used to mind a little girl who has downsyndrome, I remember one time she asked me if I had them too. It was adorable. :)

I remember my mom used to always tell me that mom's had eyes in the bakc of their heads and for a long time i totally believed it ha ha good one mom

^Haha I thought so too. And then one day I got the nerve to actually look through her hair and find them.

One thing that I did when I was little was every Christmas me and my cousins always went to my Nana's for presents and dinner. In her basement there was this one wall filled with pictures. But this one picture always stood out cuz no matter which direction we would walk it would stare at us. So every year we would try to find the mystery behind this guy. Untill we realized every picture did that.

Does anyone know te move "the little toaster?" well i watch that movie and thought that my toaster and my vacuum cleaner came alive when no onewas home

I believed I could talk to my shadow, talk to my reflection, talk to my reflection IN WATER (note the fine distinction), talk to my reflection IN A GLASS PANE (note the fine distinction) and talk to my toys too.
I wasn't worried, because they always did talk back. Well, usually.

I don't find any of what children believe ridiculous. Children have imagination, in ways that adults don't. You may laugh at it now, but try taking any of those beliefs and writing a book based on that. Or a film.
Thus you get stuff like Narnia. :)

"Children have imagination, in ways that adults don't. You may laugh at it now, but try taking any of those beliefs and writing a book based on that. Or a film.
Thus you get stuff like Narnia. :)"

Hmm, I see what you're saying. But adults were once children too... and some of those adults were wonderful enough to not let that imaginative flair pass; some producing literature as brilliant as the Lord of the Rings, and of course, Narnia :)