Here's another one. The only private question i ever asked my mother was that which we all at some point do "Where do babies come from?". If you can believe it, she told me they grew from a special tree and you had to go pick them at the hospital. Great stuff to be filling your kids head with, eh?
A childhood belief about reproduction

others believed things like this
- I heard a mother in the street tell her young son not to pick his nose...because his head would cave in. — Ruby
- Hasn't everyone, at some point or another, believed that pickles grew on trees? I sure did.— Matt c.
- I used to believe that broccoli grew on trees. It looks like a tree, so it made sense, right?— Catherine...
- My kids believe if they pick their nose their butts will fall off!— wendy
- My wife used to tell our kids that if you pick your nose your brains would fall out— grampy
- I used to believe that if I ate my boogers a booger tree would grow out of my head!— Kimmy G