When one of my friends was a kid her nanna told her that if she touched her belly button then her tummy would fall out!!! She believed it until she was six.
A childhood belief about belly buttons
others believed things like this
- my nanna told me if I swallowed gum that I would have a gum tree growing out of my tummy— ms pouty
- I used to think that if i touched my belly button it would unfold and my belly would be inside out forever. Anon
- I believed that if you pushed your belly button, your bum would fall off.— Wendy
- When I was a kid my dad told me that if you unscrewed your belly button your bum would fall off.— Ann
- i was told that if you fiddled with your belly-button too much, my bum would fall off.Anon
- when i was young i was told that if i played with or turned my belly button that my bum would fall off — lee hull