When I was little, I believed that the belly button was simply a second mouth that you used to eat foods you didn't like the taste of. I could never get mine to work, for some reason...
A childhood belief about belly buttons

others believed things like this
- I believed that if you pushed your belly button, your bum would fall off.— Wendy
- I used to think a mustache grew out of your nose hairs. I tried to let mine grow, but it didn't work. — Barry
- I used to think that if i touched my belly button it would unfold and my belly would be inside out forever. Anon
- My friend's sister believed the lyrics to Gazza's "Fog on the Tyne" were "Fog on the dinasaurs mine all mine"— Suzanne
- babies come out of your belly button— Kit
- when I was a kid I thought that babies come out of a belly-button.— Ana