I wasn't potty trinaed until I was 4. I have reason to believe this is because my older brother (he was 10 at the time) told me that I would fall in the toilet and drown. Well, believeing this, I refused to use the potty. That is up until one day I was doing the pee-pee dance and whining and my father grabbed me up by the armpits and said "GO USE THE POTTY!" very loudly. I'm quite surprised I didn't go right there. I managed to get to the bathroom and use the potty....crying the whole time.
Apparently I was more scared of my father's yell than I was the potty.
A childhood belief about fear of
others believed things like this
- My brother used to be scared to poop in the potty. He thought that he was pooping out his bones.— Lillyth
- I used to think people had a "potty mouth" if they had been drinking out of the toilet.Anon
- that bathroom tap water was recycled "potty" water from the toliet. — livingdeadgirl
- My Grand father told me that if i swallowed chewing gum i would stick to the toilet— Mr Jones
- When I was a child my father warned me that if i picked my nose, my eye would fall out!— ras
- one of my friend's was told by his father that if you didn't turn mirrors over the reflection would run out.— pri