I used to believe that being grounded meant that your parents put you into a trap door in the ground to be punished.
A childhood belief about around the house

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you put your hand in a venus fly trap it would eat it.Anon
- I thought ground beef was the meat they scraped off the ground at the slaughterhouse. Yuck.Anon
- My sibs and I thought that the screen door was called the "scream door" so Mom could yell at us through it. — Kyle
- I used to believe that if you dig a hole in the ground and put pepper in the hole, the ground would sneeze.— Cookie
- I used to believe that went the sun went down, it went down into the ground over in China.— Danielle, AL
- i used to believe that sex meant love and that having sex meant the two people would live happily ever after.— amy