I always thought the old saying "spare the rod and spoil the child" was a set of two instructions rather than the warning that the child who does not get whacked occasionally will be spoiled. I much preferred that they both spared the rod AND spoiled the child - if the child was me, at any rate!
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- When I was a child, I thought that grown-ups were adult.— Gloria
- When I was a child i thought turtle wax, was to wax turtles.— J.P.
- When I was a child I always thought Canada was apart of the US... not its own country!! — clueless youngster
When I was a child I thought there was a person inside the ATM— Grace- As a child I thought that if you killed a praying mantis, you had to pay God $50.00.— stevie p
- As a young child I thought plumbers were men who sold Plumbs!— peta