Until I was about 3 I believed that as I grew older my parents would grow younger and that I would look after them when they were little.
' Mum, when i grow big and you grow little.....'
A childhood belief about getting older

others believed things like this
- i thought that when it was your birthday you grow and then you didn't grow until a years time.— hello
- When I was little, I couldn't wait to grow up so I could grow a mustache. I am female.— Laura
- I used to believe that cars grew and that our car would grow to big to go under the McDonalds drive-thru.— Mary Ellen
- I used to believe people grew from spores and when we got old, we'd grow leaves and flowers etc— Calvin (from my pet tiger Hobbes)
- I used to think a mustache grew out of your nose hairs. I tried to let mine grow, but it didn't work. — Barry
- when I was younger , I used to soup made you grow taller — dark-titouan-du-55