My friends little brother found her tampons in her room. He took them out to his father & asked what they were. His father told him they were special ear plugs. So when her brother didn't want to listen to what was being said he would search for the special ear plugs.
A childhood belief about periods

others believed things like this
- My nephew (age 7) thought tampons were plugs for diarrhea. Anon
- i used to beilieve condom was used to plug up his pee hole...like ear plugs....Anon
- i used to think the word "friendship" meant a special kind of rocketship that you went on with your friends.— chips ahoy!
- My father convinced my little brother it was "Mount Reindeer" not Mount Rainier.— K
- I asked my father what holy water was. He told me it was the priest's bathwater. — Gwen
- one of my friend's was told by his father that if you didn't turn mirrors over the reflection would run out.— pri