when my little cousin was 4, she was able to count until 9 in english. She said "one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eightnine..." she thought eightnine was a whole number.
A childhood belief about counting
others believed things like this
- I thought that Count Dracula was the count from Sesame StreetAnon
- I used to think that even people who spoke something other than English, thought in English— Peaches
- when i was little i believed that your social security number was the number you were born on the earth — christine
- I thought to count to one thousand you did 1-100, then 100-199, then came 1,000.— Anon!
- When I was little i thought that seconds were so fast that you couldn't count them.— Baby
- My cousin's mom told my cousin that pop makes you short. He probably believed it.— Molly