One day my dad was picking at the bark of a tree while waiting outside somewhere and told him he should stop and he said it was good for the tree. So I peeled all the bark of a tree in out front yard thinking I was making it healthy. I got spanked for it.
A childhood belief about plants

others believed things like this
- I used to think that the tree branches moving was making the wind, not the wind making the tree branches move.— Jenny
- When I was five, I believed God was big as a tree, a tree being the biggest thing I could convieve of.
— Chris - I used to believe that the Doller Tree store was an actual tree.Anon
- I used to think that partridge in a pear tree was "cartridge" in a pear tree(christmas song)— Erica
- I thought if you took some candy and buried in the yard, you would grow a candy tree.Anon
- My grandma told me she used to think pigs came out of tree stumps.Anon