Unlike myself woth my own children, my mother was very coy about explaining anything period related. I remember her unpacking the shopping one day and spotting a pack of sannies. I asked her what they were, she didnt answer so I asked her if they were disposable nappes, (similar sized packet in the early '80s),she said they were. This I had to think about as my younger brother was well out of nappies and had only ever used disposables on holiday anyway. So I decided that the only person who could be wearing the nappies was my dad. I asked my mum and again she agreed, (my dad has always been the butt of the jokes on my family), and naturally, as a trusting and innocent 7-year-old, I believed her.
Next day I went in to school and stood up at 'news time' and announced to the claas that my mum was putting my dad back in nappies.
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- One time my brother asked my mom why mosquitoes bite. She said it was because children are bad.— sue
- When a "mean girl" in early grade school asked me if I was a virgin I answered "no I am catholic."— Hilary
- My little brother once asked my mother when we past a couple of factories.. if the factories made clouds— nicky
- I used to believe that all my aunts were related to my mother and all my uncles were related to my father.— Mandy
- I asked my mother what a 'homosexual' was when I was 11. She said it was when men danced together.— Nick Tucker
- When I asked my mother how Elvis died, she told me that he ate too much candy. — Katie B