In my parochial kindergarten class, the teacher tried to explain synonyms. When she gave as an example "two Father Johns would be a pair of Father Johns", I thought it meant we would have one normal Father John and one pear-shaped Father John.
A childhood belief about classes

others believed things like this
- When i was child, i used to think my father was my father christmas.— BeB's
- I used to believe that "Our Father, who art in heaven" meant that God was also a painter on the side. — Amanda
- As a child I used to think that Olivia Newton-John and Elton John were married.
Boy, I was way off.— Lisa - As a child, I thought that Olivia Newton-John was Elton John's wife and Juice Newton's sister.— Connie
- I thought that Olivia Newton John was a group, Olivia Newt and John. — Sam O.
- at four, I thought my mother was female and me and my father were fee's Anon