When I was three, my father told me that if I pushed the cuticles back too far, my fingernails would fall out.
I still kind of believe it.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I believed that if you pushed your belly button, your bum would fall off.— Wendy
- My friend Rod hates any kind of meringue pie because when he was 6 his father told him it was cow slobber.— Sean
- I used to be scared that if I chewed my cuticles and swallowed a piece of skin, I would become a cannibal. Anon
- I used to think that little bakers lived in the toaster who baked the bread and pushed it back up.— Karen K
- i believed that little men sat in the back of vending machines and pushed the sweets forward.— rachael
- When I was a child my father warned me that if i picked my nose, my eye would fall out!— ras