My sister and I have been competitive swimmers since age 5 or 6, so to get us to eat our dinners, my mom told us that eating fish would make us swim faster.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe eating fish enables me to live underwater and eating veggy makes me prettier!— Melody
- I used to believe that my belly button was for putting salt in while in bed, eating fish and chips.— Julie F
- Red shoes make you run faster. — Ann B.
- i didn't beleive this, but a kid my sister knew thought if he screamed in a really high voice, he ran faster.Anon
- My sister ate fish food one day and she was convinced that she was going to grow scales— leohauoli
- My sister convinced me that tapioca was made with fish eyeballs.— Eileen