When I used to talk too much as a child (which was quite often) my mother used to trick me by making me play "the silent game" - see how long you can not talk for. I did actually think this was a fun game, even though I wasn't very good at it.
I also used to be very un-cooperative about getting dressed sometimes, so to get my cooperation this is what my mother would say: "Do you want to put your shoes and socks on before or after you eat your toast?" I would happily reply "after I eat my toast", then happily put my shoes on after eating my toast - thinking I had got exactly what I wanted.
A childhood belief about family
others believed things like this
- I believed that my mother invented toast.— Helen
- I used to believe that eating burnt toast would make your teeth whiter and would brush your teeth for you.— Natasha
- I used to think that the toast would never pop out of the toaster if you watched it while you were waiting.Anon
- I used to believe that when you put toast in the refrigerator, it turns back into bread. — sambot
- I Believed that somthing took the bread from the toaster and replaced it with toast.— Shukun
- I used to think that the sleep in my eyes at the breakfast table were toast crumbs.— crawford