When I was really young, I used an "imaginary" string to trace my steps through a room. I always used the same path to get from points A to B. I was horrified in an adult broke the string by walking through it.
As a side note, I am very good with directions now and rarely get lost.
A childhood belief about around the house

others believed things like this
- My mother, the good Catholic, thought that Jesus, being a string bean (supreme being) was really skinny.— Mark D
- I used to think that if a movie was advertised on the side of a bus, that meant it was really good. — Aretia
- I used to believe that when people broke bones, doctors would give them a new part of the body they broke. — Kelly
- When I was a young boy I thought when we cried or when we laughed we won or we lost one minute of our life. — loulou83
- I used to believe that if you broke your arm, it broke off. And that if you got shot, you automatically died.— Mary Beth
- I thought that when you broke a bone, it broke completely off.— gin