When I was a small child and misbehaved, my older sister who was 19 years older than me, would tell my mother to use "psychology" on me. I believed she was talking about a man named Sy Kology and if I was bad I would be given to him and it did make me behave.
A childhood belief about family

others believed things like this
- a friend of my little sister's had 4 older brothers, so she thought that when you got older you grew a penis!Anon
- when i was really young, i couldn't figure out why i can't get older than my older sister.— angela
- My oldest sister is 15 years my senior. I used to think that she was older than my mom.— Callie
- My older sister told me squirrels were poisonous, and I believed her until I was 9.— Jenni
- That people older than me knew what they were talking about.— Mark
- When I was very small. by older brother told me that if I "Kissed my own elbow, I would turn into a boy."Anon