when i was little, i was convinced by my mom that you could love up to the moon. so when we would argue over the phone when i would go to montana i would say "i love you to the moon so i win" and then i would hang up and expect to see hearts all the way up to the moon. i was kinda immature. ot her than that i was fairly logical and normal.

MoonLover

I used to believe that all dads were older than all moms. I thought htat was the way it had to be, so I was shocked to find out that my mom was older than my dad. I was in denial for so long after that.... They couldn't convince me that I was wrong, and a person's mom could be older than that person's dad.

Amazing Me

I used to belive that my mum and dad lived together cause they were brother and sister

Corin

My Grandad used to tell me that he had a twin brother - he used to show me a passport photo of himself and say that it was his brother. When I asked why I had never met him, he said that he lived too far away!

Paula Nugent

I used to think my grandma was THE Mary Poppins.

Anon

when I was little, I didn't understand that my grandparents were my parents's parents. I thought they were just two people called grandma and grandpa. And I didn't know the difference between the two grandmas when mom would say that grandma's coming over. I would ask which one? The grandma with the white hair or the grandma with the dark hair!

Grandma Pat

My big sister once told me that I was purchased by my parents at a K-Mart store on a blue light special. I believed that for a couple years until I brought it up to my mom one day. She set me straight after laughing hysterically.

Melisa Kelly of Bridgeport, MI

When I was a little kid, probably 3 or 4, I would never go to my older sister, Julie, when she wanted me to (she's 9 yrs. older than me). Subsequently SHE came up with the brilliant idea of hiding in our closet and calling me into our room. When I innocently entered the bedroom, she'd throw the A&W bear (of whom I had an irrational fear) at me. Then when I started screaming & crying, & jumping up & down, she'd run over, grab me & say, "Come to DooDoo!!! I'll protect you!!!" To this day, I still can't go to sleep if the closet doors or bureau drawers aren't shut all the way.

Oh, the power an older sibling has to warp a poor child's mind...

Alicia

My Uncle Joe used to tell me he'd squash me like a bug....and then ask me to come hug him. I really believed he'd squash me.  

Joan 

Someone once told me that everyone was related to everyone else, so I used to think that if enough royalty died, my father would be made king and I'd be a princess. Only I didn't want that to happen, because I knew that, whatever my relations to royalty, they were very, *very* distant.

Anon

When I was about 4 or 5, my dad had me convinced that he had once caught a bullet in his teeth. I believed that until I was, oh, about 12 or so, when a friend told me that was impossible and I was stupid.

JessieWessie

I have three older brothers who used to tease me and make up all kinds of things that I, with my active imagination, would believe. When I was around 8 or 9 years old, they told me Dad was in the Ku Klux Klan, and that he hid his white sheet in the closet. I searched for quite a while and never found the KKK sheet. Of course, it was a big joke. I never found it to be funny!

B.A.

i used to think that if you were a boy your younger sibling would have to be a sister and vice verca (sp?)

ben

I used to believe that every dad has moustaches! If someone has not, he just must haven't children. I believed only in cartoons can be fathers without moustaches. Really! (I don't know why)

Mr Wodzionka

My problem was with 'curiosity killed the cat.' I heard that a lot. But, when I asked my parents to tell me the underlying fable or parable - they wouldn't! They said there was no underlying story. I didn't believe them and though they just didn't want to take the time to tell me the story that that line came from. It would really piss me off.

Allen

I used to believe that my grandmother was Mary Poppins when she was younger. She kept telling me how she was able to fly with an umbrella and go on merry-go-rounds when the horses went off the track. I believed this until I was 12 or 13 when I found out that her real maiden name was Martha Poppins (pretty similar to Mary Poppins).

Katriona

When I was in kindergarten the other kids at school would talk about their moms and dads and they were talking about their names and they asked me what my moms name was, with my mom forgetting at some point to tell me they actually had names, I told them my moms name is mom and my dads name is dad they just laughed and said what is their real name and I said that is their name......I always thought it was a coincidence that both my grandmothers names were mema, thought my parents were destin to be together because of it.

lilmac

When I was 5 I used to believe that I was the only child in my family, and all my brothers and sisters (I have 4 brothers and 1 sister) were strangers. One day I asked my Mom who they are and why they slept in our family. My Mom laughed!

Nguyen Minh Anh

I used to think that all parents were exactly the same as mine, they just belonged to different people. I also thought that all parents treated their kids just like mine treated me.

Anon

I used to believe that when people moved, they left their current house and 'hoped' to get the house they wanted.

One day when my aunt was going through the moving process, I proceeded to give her a 5 minute lecture on where the house key is in case she moved out but somebody else had gotten the apartment first.

B Foster