When I was in kindergarten and first grade my teachers would always write the date on the board. So whenever we came back from winter vacation, and I would see that the numbers on the year had changed, I would always wonder... "Woah, how did that happen?"
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that numbers had gender, that the odd numbers were boys and even numbers were girls. — Evelyn
- I used to believe that a weegie board was some sort of surf board.— Missa
- I used to believe that when winter came and it snowed the grass just died or went away for the winter.— Chris
- I used to think that your birthday changed every year, and that your parents just decided what day it was.— Daniel
- I believed that our teachers lived at school. They were teachers--they had no reason to leave :)(Anon
- I used to believe that teachers built missiles when they went to the teachers lounge.— HOLLIS