When I was 4 and my cousin was 8, I was counting how many years I had to grow to get older. Then I thought, next year I will be 5 and then 6 and then 4 years later I will be 8! And I will be the same age as my cousin! My mom had to explain many times to me that as I grew older, other people (including my cousin), would get older as well.
A childhood belief about getting older
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
- My cousin's mom told my cousin that pop makes you short. He probably believed it.— Molly
- I used to think a second cousin meant a cousin’s cousin.— Carlos Almonacid
- My 5-year old cousin used to believe the garbagemen were stealing their trash.Anon
- My five-year-old cousin thinks that his parents purchased him from Wal-Mart.Anon
- I thought that Dad's were always older then Mom's, come to find out my mom is a few months older than my dad.— Nicole