I used to think my grandma named my mom "Mom" and my other grandmas named my dad "Dad" and I always wondered how they knew their children were going to have kids one day! Suppose they didnt? Wouldnt it sound kind of weird?

Danielle

im not really sure if this fits in here, but i remember when i was about 4 or 5, i was acting up and being the littlest bit cheeky so my motherr said tht if i didnt be good a man would come and take me away until i did be good, just then the milkman knocked on the door to collect his money , but being young, i thought he ahd come to take me away, so i grabbed onto my dad and screamed the house down, i bet my mum felt really bad afterwards!

lil laura x x

i was really gulable when i was younger and one time my big brother told me that i was the devils daughter and that my real name was Damien he told me when i turned 10 that the devil would come and take me to hell for years i believed him my mum didnt know he told me this and wondered why i was so upset on my 10th birthday

JT

when i was 5 i used to think that people only live for 10 years and i thought that my parents were 7.

Anon

Based on tales spun by my grandad I used to believe that sitting with your back to a fire would dry the marrow in your spine out. It was only till I was about 28 that I realised the he had been bullsh!t!ng me and wanted me to shift so he could get his share of the heat.

General Vince D'Arbo (Mrs)

When I was little and my mum and dad went out they would always say they were going to see a man about a dog - I upset every time because we never ever got a dog and I wanted one so badly.

Hilary

When I was little a lot of the african-american people I knew would always say they were cousins. So I used to believe that ALL african americans were realted to each other.

Michelle

When I was a small child and misbehaved, my older sister who was 19 years older than me, would tell my mother to use "psychology" on me. I believed she was talking about a man named Sy Kology and if I was bad I would be given to him and it did make me behave.

Johnie

When me and my sister were reeeeaally young my dad had this black mustang and everyone in my family would call it the "Batmobile" Because we thought it resembled it. And my dad also had a job where he would have to leave at random times unlike our step mom who had a schedual job. So for the longest time me and my sister decided that my dad was secretly Batman and when he left for work he was really going out to beat up bad guys. I feel like a moron but everytime we watch that movie we crack up.

Anon

This story is actually more for our brother...When he was around 2 years old, my sister and I told him that he was born a monkey and had to undergo several operations to make him look like a little boy. Every time we would go to the zoo, my sister and I told him it was cus mom wasn't sure if we were going to keep him or give him back to his real family. (hey, we could have taken the "you're adopted route") It wasn't until he was around 4 that mom finally realized that the poor kid actually believed us... Even today (at 21) he's not so fond of the monkeys... :-

Big sister Number One

I used to think that everyone in the world had a twin somewhere, and those with actual twins were just out of the odds born in the same family.

Uptowner

My mum used to tell me she used to be a cave man and i believed it for years.

Anon

When my brother was little he was a very friendly, happy, panty-hose lover! For some reason he loved panty hose so much that when mom wore them he'd pet her legs and coo like they were little kitties. Except they weren't panty hose...oh no..Acording to him they were " Ooooo... Poneytoes...!"

Sara Eichler

When I was little my Grandad told me stories of when he was in the Army and had to guard Buckingham Palace in his Bear skin. I believed him when he told me that he always took Liz her first cup of tea of the day and her morning paper. He always does this for my Grandma so I did not need to doubt him.

Jo

I thought grown ups were born grown ups.

mea

at 3 , I used to believe that you could decide if you would rather be a mom , grandma , dad , uncle , aunt, etc. etc. and I always insisted on being a mom , my grandma just couldn't understand what I was trying to tell her.

Anon

where it said serve chilled on a bottle of wine i used to believe it said serve child, i got really angry with my dad for not letting me drink it

annieka

I've always felt a weird connection with my grandfather, who died before I was even born.
So, whenever I played on the swings I thought that he was trying to pull me to heaven.

Amanda

When I was a little girl my grandad used to say 'I was a little girl when I was your age.' I believed him for years and was quite disappointed when my Mum told me it was not true. I wanted to grow a beard!

Fly

I used to believe that all of your aunts were your mother's sisters and all of your uncles's were your father's brothers. This was because my mom had 3 sisters & no brothers, and my dad had 2 brothers and no sisters. I remember being very confused at 5 years old when I was told that the man my Aunt Nancy was marrying would be my Uncle Shane. I couldn't figure out how he could become my father's brother.

shelly