My little cousin Robbie who is about 6 thinks that all American money is the same---he counts a penny as one, a 20 dollar bill as one, and a 5 dollar bill as one dollar, it doesn't matter what type of money it is. All bills and coins---to him---are counted as one dollar!
For example one day he had a five dollar bill and a one dollar bill in his pocket. He took the money out and counted it aloud. "I have two dollars". He actually had 6 dollars!
A childhood belief about money
others believed things like this
- I bbelived that the process of "making money" was taking a dollar bill and ironig it.Anon
- i used to think that if i tore a dollar bill in half it would make fifty cents— stacy
- that if you rip a dollar coins come outAnon
- I used to think that of you ripped a dollar 100 pennies would fall out of the rip.— Glad I never tried it
- I used to believe that on money, the treasurer of the United States really signed every bill prited her self.— Tiffany
- When I was 10 years old, I used to believe that the accountants always counted money all the time.— Claudia P. R.G.