Our son thought if you turned off the TV it would save your place like a bookmark in a book. (He was 5 before he remembers seeing TV, we lived in Europe)
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- For along time I thought the Middle East and Eastern Europe were just different names for the same place!— Helllowerer
- I used to believe that school was a place kids go to get turned into adults.— Samantha
- For the longest time I thought Pig Latin was an actual language that they spoke in a part of Europe.Anon
- until i was seven i beleived that the witch from the wizord of oz lived behind a gate behined my book shelf— preston
- I always believed that we lived in Manchester (we didn't) but it was always the main place on the local news!— Richard M
- I heard the song about Heaven being a place where nothing ever happened and thought, "What a boring place."Anon