As a child I used to believe that there were monsters lurking behind the bannisters at the top of the stairs and would never go up the stairs on my own after dark,even if the landing light was on. To my amazement, my first child confessed to an identical fear although I had by then forgotten about mine. Are fears inherited? The fact that my second child had it could be put down to being warned by her brother, but the first ?
A childhood belief about monsters
others believed things like this
- When I was a child my father warned me that if i picked my nose, my eye would fall out!— ras
- As a child I always wondered why I could see everyone else's face and not mine.— Amit
- As a child I used to think that everybody speaks the same language, mine.— Eva
- When I was a child, I had a fear of bagels. I thought they were stale doughnuts.Anon
- I was told as a child to eat the dark parts of a banana, because it was really brown sugar.Anon
- I used the scar on my dads leg was a shark bite when in fact he fell off his bike when he was a child— Wendy Murray