When I was little, I thought that babies were born with a metal name tag. I'm not sure when I discovered that was not true. It may have been when my mother showed me her list of baby names, and told me how she picked mine.
A childhood belief about names

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that Metal music was when a bunch of people would bang metal together to make noise. Ha ha.— Kassandra
- My mother told me that if I picked my nose it would turn into a pigs trotter!— Lynne S :o)
- When I was young my mother told me that old people kind of shrink. I thought that they shrunk into babies.— dont know
- That because Gerber Baby Food had a baby on it real babies were put in there. Thanks a lot cousin!— Nicole
- I thought baby oli was made from pressed babies.Anon
- I used to believe that babies were born out our bellybuttons.Anon