when my son was 8 he overheard his mom & I talk about a
family we knew that had fallen on hard financial times.He looks at me & says well why don't they just go to the ATM & get more money.I hugged him to keep him from seeing me cry.
A childhood belief about money

others believed things like this
- I thought a "fallen soldier" was one who'd tripped and fallen during a battle.Anon
- I used to think that the fog was a cloud that had died and fallen to the earth.— Cici
- When I was a small girl, I used to believe black men had fallen into chocolate. — elodie, French student in eighth grade
- I used to believe that old black Bananna skins were dogs lips that had fallen off.— Tracey Cross
- When I was a little kid I used to believe that tissue paper was money and that you could have a box of money.Anon
- I used to belive that if you went up to an ATM it would just give you money out that is not your own money.Anon