When I was about 8 years old, I used to watch a few TV programs from time to time. One of them was "Please Don't Eat The Daisies", which was a short lived sitcom about a family with four boys (two of them twins), similar in style to the Brady Bunch that came out a few years later. In "Daisies", the mother was kind of bubble headed, a bit wacky/silly. Somehow I had the idea that when a mother had a lot of kids, it mentally drained her, to the point where if she had too many she'd become really stupid. So I cautioned my mother not to have any more children (I was the oldest of 2). She asked me why and I said "because I wouldn't want you to become stupid." Well, I explained my crazy notion and she laughed, telling me it wasn't true. Even still, I secretly believed it might be true until I was a few years older and I asked a few "careful" questions of my elementary school science teacher, to later learn how silly the idea really was. ;-)
A childhood belief about giving birth
others believed things like this
- I thought the word lackadaisical was something to do with lacking daisies.Anon
- my mother told me if i ever swallowed chewing gum i'd turn into a pig, i believed this for many years.— stuart hayward
- When i was young,my mother told me that she picked me up from the park. i believed it for a few years— Jennifer~
- when i was little i asked what time midnight mass started.
i honestly had no idea.— what time?? - My oldest sister is 15 years my senior. I used to think that she was older than my mom.— Callie
- I used to believe an "Ego" was a kind of hair style, similar to a mullet.Anon