This wasn't mine, but a friend's:
When my mother asked if I had done something and I answered, "Yes, Mom, I swear," he said, "Oo-oo-ooh!" I asked why, and he said, "Swearing is cursing!"
A childhood belief about swearing

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that swearing was just saying, “I swear!”Anon
- when asked what i would like to be when i grew up, as a girl of about 5, i answered "a horsey".Anon
- When a "mean girl" in early grade school asked me if I was a virgin I answered "no I am catholic."— Hilary
- My friend's sister believed the lyrics to Gazza's "Fog on the Tyne" were "Fog on the dinasaurs mine all mine"— Suzanne
- I asked my mother what a 'homosexual' was when I was 11. She said it was when men danced together.— Nick Tucker
- When I asked my mother how Elvis died, she told me that he ate too much candy. — Katie B