when I was little I was obsessed with my belly button (as every child is) and it used to grate on my grandmother's nerves to see me with my finger in my belly button. One day we were watching the news and those starving children in Africa were on it. They all had swollen bellies. That mean old woman told me that if I kept playing with my belly button, my belly would swell up like theirs and then blow up. I still cringe when I wash it.
A childhood belief about belly buttons
others believed things like this
- I used to think that if i touched my belly button it would unfold and my belly would be inside out forever. Anon
- I used to believe that If I stuck my finger really far inside of my belly button I could touch my insides.Anon
- Thanks to my grandmother, I used to believe that my belly button was where Jesus blew me up with a straw.— Michele
- i used to believe that playing with your belly button would lead to your insides pouring outAnon
- when i was a child i used to think that my belly button was for storing smarties— GemSue
- When I was a kid my dad told me that if you unscrewed your belly button your bum would fall off.— Ann