Thanks to my father, I believed that there was a limited supply of fingernail. Once that was gnawed off, my nail would no longer grow back. This by far worked way better than the hot sauce and and the bitter polish to get me to stop biting my nails.
A childhood belief about biting my nails
others believed things like this
- i was told that if i kept biting my nails i would grow hairs on my tongue i was 10 yrs old by the way— charlotte anderson
- I didn't know whether nail files were supposed to make your nails sharper or duller.Anon
- i used to think that biting my nails would make my fingers fall off! ;)— Cassandra
- My Dad told me that biting my nails would result in a large toenail being attached to my stomach lining.— LindaAG
- Polish war memorial ,I thought it was an instruction.as in to polish— oddsox
- My father used to call soya sauce "monkey blood". I didn't even consider tasting it for years!— Me