I told my 3 year old daughter on the way to school that as squirrels live in nests they must lay eggs, and hairy ones at that. She told her teacher it was true when she was seven years old
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- Bird eggs grow on trees, and they have to go and collect them to put them in their nests.— Ulalia
- When I was in elementary school I use to think that teacher lived at school at their desks all year long.Anon
- My older sister told me squirrels were poisonous, and I believed her until I was 9.— Jenni
- My mum always told me to stop chewing my hair or else i would get a hairy chest! hee, hee! x— Kirsty
- My 5 year old daughter believes if she picks her nose her bum will fall off !!Anon
- Someone told my that rice was really spider eggs. I still don't look at it the same. Anon