When i was in 4th grade. My mother told me that babies came from the heaven and god made them just the way they look now. Well i truly thought this so i told one of my friends at school that we were going to be this small for ever i later found out that we still grow after you come out of your moterd stomach
A childhood belief about getting older

others believed things like this
- when i was 6 my mom told me that if you bit your nails a hand would grow in your stomachAnon
- i was told when i was young that if i swollowed gum my stomach would grow teeth to chew it— gammie
- My mom told me that rain would help me grow... at a small 5'3" the reality set in quickly.Anon
- When I was young my mother told me that old people kind of shrink. I thought that they shrunk into babies.— dont know
- My mother told me that if I kept sucking my thumb I would grow another one out the side of the first one.Anon
- There was a popular rumor back in grade school that BUBBLE YUM gum was made with spider eggs.— Amber