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Parents have eyes in the back of their heads.

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I used to think that grown-ups turned into space alienks when I didn't look at them, then, when I looked again they'd all be "normal" & "human-like"...I tried catching a few out by pretending not to look, but they always WERE faster than me... ;-)

teffietastic

When i was about 5 my mum used to say if i was bad she would send me to the "Jaggy Jerseys" where a man would come and collect you and take you to his house and make you wear a jaggy jersey forever and only feed you bread and water, whenever i annoyed her she would say remember the jaggy jersey man

Julie

My Mum didn't work when my brother and I were little, and at age 5 I imagined that once she'd dropped us off at school in the mornings, she then went home to sit and watch telly all day. (As I probably would have done all day if I'd been allowed to.) I was really envious and couldn't wait to be big enough to be able to just play the whole day long and not have to go to school. Didn't realise that after school comes work and also did not even consider who tidied, shopped, cleaned and worked indoors to keep the house in order. I just thought that Mum only did anything at the weekends when we were there to see her doing it. Sorry, Mum.

mel

When I was 11, I used to believe that the way to tell how old your friend's mother was, was to add up the ages of all her children and add that figure to 25 (all mothers had their first child at 25). I was so confused because some of these mothers (by my warped logic) were 36 (if they had one child) and some were almost 100 years old (if they had loads of kids). I could not work out how my best friend's mother still looked 25, but by my own special system was actually 92.

Nikki

As the youngest of 4 I used to get quite worried when my said of my brothers and sister "they break up next week" ( meaning school hollidays of course ).

John

My mum used to tell me that if I carried on being naughty she would send me away on the ship kolioh (pronounced col-i-ho). I was led to believe that this was a run down ship that sailed without ever docking, its bottom was full of rats and frogs and little orfan boys rowing the boat to wherever. My mum's not around now to tell me where this came from... but it used to scare the life out of me

Anon

I used to believe that unless I slept with my 2 pillows right next to each other, and my 2 smallest teddy bears on top of the pillows, my parents would divorce. I slept that way every night till I was 13! My parents (and 8 smaller siblings) really owe me one! ;)

Martina

I was the youngest of several girls and my mum and
sisters always told me that they had found me in the middle of the road in a basket and that they felt sorry for me so they decided to keep me!!! How cruel were they...! I don't think I really believed it but they used to say it so often and for years, that I sometimes wondered whether it was true!!

Lexy

I used to believe that I was actually a grown-up dwarf and that someone from the Moscow State Circus would be along to take me back at any time.

Anoushka (hence the Russian connection)

My dad was a big rugby player, I grew up surrounded by big men and their families. For some reason I thought skinny men couldn't be dads.

abi rose

my mom told me that, as a baby, a black family had forgotten me after fishing on my grandmother's dock. But that I was so cute she deciede to bleach me and keep me rather than give me back. I never have been able to keep a tan - too much bleach, I guess.

Anon

I used to believe that if I didn't put my slippers together when I took them off, then my parents would divorce. I believed it for years then later came to senses. My parents are still together after 35 years :)

anon

My dad is about 6'2" and a pretty big guy in general. I used to believe that he was so big that he could touch the power lines and had a hard time getting through doors.

PTJ

i was 5 yrs old on x-mass eve when my uncle came itno the house with a dead deer telling us he just hit rudolph we were very upset and in tears he told us that santa still would come to our surprise we still had a x-mass this went on for about 4 yrs before we realized that our uncle was just a hunter and not a rudolph killer

Anon

Around the early 1960s, when I was 5 or 6 years old, my Uncle J.C. would come to visit my grandmother, who was living with us at the time. J.C. was a master sergeant in the Army and had no hair. Because President Eisenhower had been in the Army and had no hair, and looked like my mom's side of the family a little bit around the lips, I got the idea that President Eisenhower was somehow related to our family. I never mentioned this to my mother, since nobody else brought it up and I assumed it was some kind of big secret.

Rob

I believed my grandmother would protect me from anything. On her 90th birthday we talked about an incident when I was 8 and was screwing with matches and gasoline and almost burned down the back fence. "You could have caught the house on fire and grandpa had to put it out. I had to tell your mother finally you were basically a good kid, but sometimes did stupid things and not to be mad at you." "Grandma, how long ago did you tell her?" "Last year." I was 40...

hiphoptater

I used to believe that my mum was the queen. She does look a bit like the queen... minus the orb and sceptre.

Vix

I used to believe that by making my parents promise (every night) to see me in the morning i wouldn'tr be killed by them in my sleep. I believed that they would stab me during the night, or poison me with cooked apples. I still don't eat cooked apples.

Anon

i used to think, having seen my parents initials on letters (mr d and mrs m ......), that their names were daddy and mummy

cath

I used to believe that when i got older my nan would become my mum.Because she was my mum's mother, she would have to become mine at some point,as well.

Kim

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