I used to believe flowers just grew and developed out of nothing into something pretty that had a bonus of smelling good. I was so disappointed to learn about pollination in middle school science class.
A childhood belief about plants
others believed things like this
- I was told that spaghetti grew on trees and i anounced it in class one day in grammer school.— w.b.
- I used to believe people grew from spores and when we got old, we'd grow leaves and flowers etc— Calvin (from my pet tiger Hobbes)
- My brother used to believe that when we went to school dogs went to dog school to learn to speak and read— Matt
- I grew up in Hawaii, and was pretty sure that our country, the United States, was the fiftieth stateAnon
- I remember a girl in my kindergarten class told me she wanted to be a waterfall when she grew up.Anon
- My mom used to think "preschool" was called "pretty school" until a few years later.— Molly