When my wife was pregnant, my little niece told her to eat plenty of sugar and candy. When she asked her "why?", my niece said that she wanted us to have a girl because girls are made of sweets.
A childhood belief about reproduction

others believed things like this
- My niece used to believe that I lived in the sky because she always saw me leave for school on an airplane.Anon
- My niece believed that the longer I breastfed my baby the smaller my boobs would get. She was 4 at the time.— M
- My niece used to call Marmite Falloy! Where she got the word Falloy from nobody knows— Russ
- I used to believe that cotton candy was made out of cotton and sugar.— Ezy
- I thought that a "sugar daddy" was a father who let his kids eat all the sugar they wanted.Anon
- My mum told me that if I ate sugar from the sugar bowl I'd get worms.— QueenB