When I was a kid and my mom wanted me to eat something I didn't like, she would say "It'll put hair on your chest." As if that's such an attractive quality for a girl! Of course, it's taken me nearly 30 years to finally eat some of the things she wanted me to eat!
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- My mum always told me to stop chewing my hair or else i would get a hairy chest! hee, hee! x— Kirsty
- Eating potatoes with skins on puts hair on your chest— Muddinyori
- When i was younger i thougth that when you grew up you could decide whether you wanted to be a girl or a boy. Anon
- I remember a girl in my kindergarten class told me she wanted to be a waterfall when she grew up.Anon
- I used to believe that I really COULD be anything I wanted to be when I grew up. I wanted to be a unicorn. Anon
- I used to wonder that if man wanted to reach the stars in rockets, why didn't he just go up at night? Duh!!!— albinoavenger