When I was around 4 or 5 I was convinced that you would weigh less if you sucked in your stomach on the scale.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- "Somewhere over the rainbow
Weigh a pie."
Why did Dorothy weigh a pie somewhere over the rainbow?— John - I thought a stomach ache was a stomach egg— Catherine
- My dad once told me when i was about 7 or 8 that if i watched too much t.v., i would be sucked into the tv.Anon
- someone told me that if u go to the bathroom on the toielt you would get sucked inn..— terrified child
- I used to think if a tornado sucked up a poisonous mushroom, it would die.— Will
- I used to belive that if u pee in the bath, you will get sucked down the plughole!Anon