I used to believe that in order to get rid of bangs (fringes) you had to shave them off. It never occurred to me that you just had to let them grow out. Unfortunately, I realized this AFTER shaving my bangs off!
A childhood belief about hair

others believed things like this
- When I was little, I thought that people were either born with bangs, or without them. =DAnon
- i used to believe that if you shave your head you could grow any type of hair like curlyAnon
- I used to beleive that my dad only had a shave on Sundays. Because he got up before me on all the other days.— roy
- When I was about 3-5 I thought I could shave like my dad and I ended up cutting myself all over. — Matt
- i thought the line "saving my face" from the KT Tunstall song of the same name was "shaving my face"Anon
- I used to believe that the Fire Station was where all fires occurred.Anon