My mother once told me that your belly button was a tube directly connected to your stomach. If you picked at your belly button too much, you would open the tube and your would bleed to death (she was a very frighting mother). She said that this happened to a young boy she knew when she was a child. By 4th grade I started to figure out what belly buttons are for, but I still thought it was possible to die from belly button opening. It was only in 7th grade Health class that I completely learned that belly buttons are just scars, and to this day I like by dad better.
A childhood belief about belly buttons
others believed things like this
- I used to think that if i touched my belly button it would unfold and my belly would be inside out forever. Anon
- when i was young i was told that if i played with or turned my belly button that my bum would fall off — lee hull
- when i was a child i used to think that my belly button was for storing smarties— GemSue
- When I was a kid my dad told me that if you unscrewed your belly button your bum would fall off.— Ann
- I was told that your belly button is where you put salt when you eat apples in bed.— Shurnuff
- i was told that if you fiddled with your belly-button too much, my bum would fall off.Anon