When I was around 5 or 6, I really hated washing my hair. I always found ways to put it off. My mom would always say, "If you don't wash your hair now, when you go to sleep, I'm going to cut it all off!" and I would cry because I loved my long hair. I also knew she wouldn't do that, so she tried a different method saying, "If you always wash your hair, it will grow longer much more quickly." That got me.
A childhood belief about hair

others believed things like this
- I used to think that bleaching your hair meant washing your hair with toilet bleach.Anon
- I believed that if you ate a piece of your own hair, a new strand of hair would grow on your head.— Ryo
- I use to believe that your hair grew because you wash i.e like watering a plant — HJON
- I used to think that everybody's hair was black and if you had blond hair, you dyed your hair.— ~_~CoolKid93_~_
- I was told that if i didnt wash my hair regularly it would turn green— Mimi Screami
- My friend convinced me that if I used a bar of soap to wash my hair instead of shampoo that I would go bald.— Michelle