When we were little (I was 6 and my sister was 5) if I wanted to make my little sister do something she didnt want to do (e.g. do my work, give me her ice cream, let me play with her toys etc), I would storm off to the bathroom, hang my foot just above the toilet and say "if you dont do this, I'm gonna flush myself down the toilet, die and go away forever!"
The poor thing would believe that I would actually die and in her love for me, would do anything I asked her to...
Yeah I know it was mean...but still pretty brilliant for a 6 year old dont you think? I mean it did work didnt it???
A childhood belief about fear of
others believed things like this
- I used to think if you didnt get up before flushing the toilet would eat you...Anon
- I used to beleve when i was 4 that the flush on the toilet was to wake up toilet monsters.— Millie
- When I was younger, I believed that squinting in a storm would make you cross-eyed... forever.Anon
- that using athletes foot cream would instantly make me an athlete. — Kate
- My uncle once said that elves were really badchildren made to work in santa's work shop— Some guy
- i used to believe that if i didn't work at school, i would have donkey ears, so now i work hard !!!— denis