When I was younger, about 8 i'm guessing, I had to make sure the lid on the toilet was down, the door was closed (and locked) and towels were stuffed under the door to block the crack. Because if they weren't, my barbies would jump into the toilet and flush themselves.
Even gave me nightmares!
A childhood belief about toys

others believed things like this
- I used to beleve when i was 4 that the flush on the toilet was to wake up toilet monsters.— Millie
- My sibs and I thought that the screen door was called the "scream door" so Mom could yell at us through it. — Kyle
- i used to belive that when you flush a toilet on an aeroplane you get sucked down— milly
- I used to believe that if you jump in a toilet, they lead you to another dimension.— beep.
- My brother (who was 6 at the time) would never flush the toilet in fear of our new house being blown up! Anon
- I thought that toilet paper was bread and by puting it it the toilet i was feeding the ducks at the bottem.— Gringo