(Stepdaughter, at age 7, when she came to live with us)
"Did you know that if you throw a pebble in a volcano it will explode?"
Took a lot of convincing that her 9 yr old pal wasn't the smartest in the world.
A childhood belief about disasters
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that every single slightly round stone r pebble was a fossilised dinosaur egg.— Dino Hunter
- i used to believe that a volcano was an upside-down UFO in disguise— Sally
- I used to believe that inside each volcano there was a guy who'd press a button to make it erupt.— Jim, UK
- When I was little I taught that a volcano was a fish.Don't know why,it just sounded like a fish name.— Daniel
- i could swear eleventeen was a number for the longest time -- it still sounds pretty convincing.— erin
- I used to believe my dad was the best male figure in the world and wondered why he wasn't president already.— Ivy :)