At age 7 my daughter had great fun shooting "baby guns" at summer camp (well, they were little and that's what I thought the counselors were saying", she explained. Okay I can see that but this next one???
Her and her friends thought that being "raped" meant being attacked with a garden implement, in other words *raked". I chose not to correct them on that one....they figured it out themselves when they were old enough to know.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- My daughter thought bumblebees were baby hummingbirds. — Carolyn
- I used to believ that "Shooting the Bull" literally meant what it states.— DJ
- When I first heard the words "flea market", I actually thought it meant "selling fleas".Anon
- I thought that my parents chose my cousins, and was upset when my mother wouldn't let me add one.Anon
- My daughter used to believe that when someone is fired from their job, it meant it literally.— Sally's mommy
- When trains (subways) go underground, my little sister thought that the lights were shooting stars.— Katie