I used to beleive that the singing of "Happy Birthday" was the actual process of making you a year older. Therefore when I had it sung to me at nursery school and at home, I thought it would add two years on to my age!
A childhood belief about birthdays
others believed things like this
- i thought I got one year older when my family sang the birthday song.— I am the ghost
- I bbelived that the process of "making money" was taking a dollar bill and ironig it.Anon
- My parents have the same birthday -- month, day, and year. I though all mom's and dad's had the same birthday.— Cait
- My sister thought (not more than one year ago, she is now 14) that John Doe was an actual person.— Brother to Natascha
- I used to beleive that a mermaid would be singing to you when u listned to a shell. — vprincess
- I used to beleive that little drawf men were inside each traffic light, making them change colors. — alisha