When I was little, to discourage me from sticking out my tongue, my mother told me that it was attached to my hair, and that my hair would get shorter every time I stuck it out. I really liked long hair ... still do. To this day, I don't stick out my tongue!
A childhood belief about hair

others believed things like this
- that if you stuck out your tongue at your mother, your hand would stick up out of the grave when you died.— Elaine. London
- I used to think that everybody's hair was black and if you had blond hair, you dyed your hair.— ~_~CoolKid93_~_
- I used to believe that you had to have your eyes closed and your tongue sticking out for you to be dead! — pinkgreencrazy
- I used to hold my hand over my hair whenever i left the house and it was windy incase my hair blew away— lisa
- I used to believe that you could curl your hair by twirling a strand of hair wrapped around your finger— Anonymous
- I believed that if you ate a piece of your own hair, a new strand of hair would grow on your head.— Ryo