I was always told that if one played with fire (such as poking at campfires with sticks, etc.) that one would wet the bed.
Needless to say, with a family that had at least one campout a year with a large campfire...this led to more than one kid in our family developing complexes about the matter O_o
A childhood belief about weeing and pooing

others believed things like this
- My parents always told me at night the sticks we had played with throughout the day turned into snakes.. — Sarahb
- My mother convinced all of us kids in our family that the large rhubarb in the garden was a Man-Eating Plant. — H.Miller
- I was about 6 and thought my family invented the fart because I never heard anyone outside my family do it.— Bob
- i thought I got one year older when my family sang the birthday song.— I am the ghost
- I used to think that in the song"Family Affair, they were saying "It's a family of bears!"— Wayne Huffman
- When I was little I used to believe that if I played with fire, then I would wet the bed. — Danielle