When I was little I didn't comprehend growing old. I thought that when kids grew up they moved out of the family home and never saw their parents again. The parents would then have more children to replace them and so on.
With this in mind I casually asked my mum whether she had had any children before me that I didn't know about!
She was somewhat shocked at my question!
A childhood belief about getting older
others believed things like this
- that when I grew to be an adult my parents would be children.— Rainbow
- i used to think only children whose parents don't want them anymore goes to childcare centre.— Long long ago
- i used to believe that parents do things to make there children happier. well i was wrong. — Emma C.
- Migets were people who were bad when they were kids and there parents didn't let them grow up.— Teresa
- Ironically my parents were born on the same day; so growing up, I thought all parents had the same birthdays. Anon
- I was convinced that children weren't humans, only adults were, children were a total different race!— Leda