When I was a kid (1950s) I used to believe that anything you wanted to do that was any fun would either put your eye out or give you lock-jaw according to my parents
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that my parents would give me away if I didn’t do as they said— Albert
- As my parents had given me a name, I thought that it was up to me to give them names tooAnon
- I was told as a kid that if you kept stuffing a Big Buddies (bubble gum)I would get lock jaw.— Dawn
- I thought Maria Carey's 1998 ballad was 'I'd give my arms' instead of 'I'd give my all'.— Briony Maggs
- I used to believe that the lyrics to Bon Jovi's "You Give Love a Bad Name" were "You give love a Band-Aid".Anon
- I used to believe that I really COULD be anything I wanted to be when I grew up. I wanted to be a unicorn. Anon