I have brothers who are quite a bit older than me. When I was 3 or 4, there were a few books on my brother's bookshelf that I was told would hurt me if I opened them. I remember being 7 or 8 and my mother and I were cleaning off the shelf. She reached for the Fred Flintstone book and I began screaming, "Don't open it! Don't open it!" I thought a razor blade (the most deadly thing I knew of then) was going to fall out of the pages.
What a cruel way to keep your baby sister from coloring in your books.
A childhood belief about lies
others believed things like this
- I believed you had to color all the dinosaurs in coloring books green because all the dinosaurs WERE green.— Betty
- a friend of my little sister's had 4 older brothers, so she thought that when you got older you grew a penis!Anon
- my brother told me that if i ride my bike with my mouth open i will swallow my tounge. Anon
- When I was little my friend told me that if you snease with your eyes open you eyes will fall out!Anon
- When I was a little I thought TV was full of tiny books and we would watch one every day— Amine
- I thought the Til Tuesday song said "Books are scary!", rather than "Voices Carry"Anon