I used to think that a baby shower was when the mommy took a shower with her new baby son/daughter, and everyone came to watch.

me

When I was a little girl we lived in what was then a country area. Looking at it now it is so close to our capital city that I have to laugh! Anyway, we went barefoot a lot, and I was the youngest of four. I clearly remember that if I stood on a rusty nail my father would give me a shiny new (Australian)penny to take my mind off it. I am now 65, and it is only recently that I have thought about it and realised that he must have cleaned up an old penny to make me feel good.Isn't that wonderful. What a great man he was!

Mairin

When I was little, my great-grandma told me that she had an invisible thinking-cap that only worked when she tugged on her ear, pressed her nose and made a weird noise. I asked her why I didn't have one, and she told me that mine was still growing on the back of my head. So for ages, every time I saw her, I'd ask her to check and see if my thinking-cap had gotten any bigger.

Onatel

Coming from a 100% Italian family, it was always interesting to me to have an Irish Aunt. I would manage to sit next to her at family gatherings and look up in amazement at her beautiful red hair. Once she told me that she would talk to Leprechauns every night and that she could see them because she was Irish. i would sit there with my mouth open listening to stories she told me of the wee people (leprechauns)...I am sure she had a good time with this..LOL

Jaye Marie

My mum told me and my brother that we were adopted and that our real mothers were witches. Thanks mum.

Anon

When I was very young, my dad said to me and my brother: 'Jon is my son and Lindy is my daughter'. I then adamantly replied, 'no, I'm the moon!'

Lindy

We moved abroad when I was five, and the budgie went to the vet to be looked after whilst we were gone. It was only about ten years later that I realised Diggle hadn't actually lived out his final few months/years in luxury at the vet's house.

Karen

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 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

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 my cousin Michael had misbehaved, my mother said that his mother would whip him. I thought this meant that she would put him in a bowl and use an eggbeater on him.

C.C.

For years I was believed that my dad was 49, that he didnt change his age every birthday.
I was gutted when I found out he was only 38!!

silly me

When I was four, My father would tell me that John Wayne was his father every time there was a John Wayne film on television. Consequently I believed that John Wayne was my grandfather until I was 8

Gillian

I used to believe that my dad was only "my dad". I used to get so frustrated when my cousins called him "uncle mike" because he wasnt their uncle mike, he was MY DAD!

Anon

As a child I used to sneak into my Grandparents bedroom and have a look at my Nan's jewellery..... now I thought that they were robbers and stole all the stuff from the jewellery store, so i confronted them about it, to which they just laughed :(

Paranoid

When I was about five, I heard my mother call my paternal grandmother "Mom." From this, I naturally assumed that Nana had been Mom's mother when Mom was a little girl, and that, conversely, my dad had been raised by my maternal grandparents. I thought that couples swapped parents when they were married.

deanna

I used to believe my parents were trying to kill me. If I was going to enter a room or take a shower, I'd wait ten minutes or so longer than I otherwise would have because they knew that I was going to go there and they had boobie trapped the place. And if I was getting in the car with them, I'd say I was gonna get in the front seat, then sit in the back seat or vice-versa to throw them off.

Hugo

I use to beleve that something was wrong with my parents since they shared a bed. After all, Rob and Laura Petry had seperate beds and even Lucy and Ricky had two single beds pushed together. I didn't think my parents were normal.

Raised in the 60's

My parents always managed to convince me that we had the best Christmas tree in the world.....not just the country mind you, but the whole entire world.

Anon

On halloween when i was 5 or so my dad and grandpa went to scare a my neighbor's daughter and her friends at her Halloween party..well that night after they scared her my dad came home with his costume on as warewolf...so nautrally..i thought every halloween my dad turned into a warewolf.

Princess Lynzie