I believed for the longest time that you could find out how old a tree is be counting the leaves. The really strange part is that I was told this by my teacher.
A childhood belief about plants

others believed things like this
- For the longest time I thought Pig Latin was an actual language that they spoke in a part of Europe.Anon
- For the longest time I didn't know that Spinal Tap wasn't a real group. No wonder I couldn't find their music.— Louis
- When i was about 4 or 5, for the longest time, i believed that the preist of our church was god.— hunnybee
- For the longest time I believed New Hampshire was New Hamster and that was where all the hamsters came from. — Giny
- When I was five, I believed God was big as a tree, a tree being the biggest thing I could convieve of.
— Chris - when I was little my uncle told me he was part bear. I believed people could be part bear until I was twelve. — Audrey