One day at school when I around 5 we learned about "strangers." When I came home I told my mom that I wanted to be a stranger when I grew up so that I could give candy to children.
A childhood belief about work

others believed things like this
- I remember a girl in my kindergarten class told me she wanted to be a waterfall when she grew up.Anon
- The lollypop man's job was to give children lollypops.
How disappointed I was when I met one. :DAnon - that when I grew to be an adult my parents would be children.— Rainbow
- I was told that spaghetti grew on trees and i anounced it in class one day in grammer school.— w.b.
- When I children, I used to believe that the frog grew then was forming until that tunerd in a lizard — Luis
- I thought if you took some candy and buried in the yard, you would grow a candy tree.Anon