Growing up, my mother always told me that milk would make my bones and teeth healthy and strong. I decided that I wanted good, strong teeth, so every time I drank a glass of milk, I would swish every sip around in my mouth for as long as possible. I thought that the more the milk touched my teeth, the stronger they would become. My mom would see me swishing my milk around and tell me to swallow it, but only once I was old enough to know the truth did she know why I would keep it in my mouth for so long.
A childhood belief about milk
others believed things like this
- Chocolate, they say, rots your teeth. I believed if you drank chocolate milk, your bones would be brown.— Dellio
- I used to believe that if I didn't brush my teeth at night, ants would crawl into my mouth and eat my teeth.Anon
- When we were little my sister thought if you mixed cow’s milk and water you’d get goat’s milkAnon
- that black women breastfed chocolate milk instead of white milkAnon
- I used to beleive that milk bottles were filled with milk, directly from the cow's udder.Anon
- I used to believe I could milk dogs like the cows. This was because I saw a nurse milk his cow.— Laurent and Alexis, French students in eighth grade