when me and my sister were young, my mom painted our nails red and told us if we kept on biting our nails we would eat the nailpolish and die. my sisters nails are now really long and pretty, but i kept on biting mine and now they're still really messed up and short.
A childhood belief about biting my nails

others believed things like this
- i was told that if i kept biting my nails i would grow hairs on my tongue i was 10 yrs old by the way— charlotte anderson
- My Dad told me that biting my nails would result in a large toenail being attached to my stomach lining.— LindaAG
- i used to think that biting my nails would make my fingers fall off! ;)— Cassandra
- when i was little my sister told me that when i bite my nails it would cut through my skin and i would die! — nn
- when i was 6 my mom told me that if you bit your nails a hand would grow in your stomachAnon
- I wasn't allowed to cut my nails on a sunday , don't ask me why.— martin