My Mum used to tell me to "eat all my dinner - just think of the starving children in Africa, they'd be very grateful to have your dinner." So I got quite confused when I was told off for not finishing what was on my plate because I thought that what I left would go to the starving children in Africa.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that traveling in cognito was a place in Africa or somewhere.— Jennifer
- I used to believe that other coutries were other planets and you had to travel in a spaceship to go to Africa.— Sarah Jane
- I used to belive that african was the language they spoke in all of africa— quark
- I used to believe that Africa was the biggest country and Luxembourg was the smallest.Anon
- I was convinced that children weren't humans, only adults were, children were a total different race!— Leda
- I used to think Kenny Rogers had 400 children and a crop in the field. Rather than 4 hungry children.Anon