I was taught to pray as a 3-year-old, but I learned what the word "afasha" meant ... as in "Afasha die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take."
Rote memorization isn't always the best method.
A childhood belief about prayers

others believed things like this
- I don't know why but when i was 5 i used to think the place where you kneel to pray was were kids sat.Anon
- When i was about 4 i used to think the birds of pray were called that because they preyed before they ate!— Alien 5247
- I used to think that life was all a dream and one day i would wake up like a 75 year old woman.( who knows?)— 8 with wrinkles
- when i was young i used to believe a wake was when you waited for the dead person to wake upAnon
- my husband believed, until recently, that the word "several" meant seven of something. — sheryl
- I used to believe that "nuptial" was a naughty word. I thought it meant nipple. XD— Sara Hagen