Whenever my sisters and I were being bad my mom would threaten that "Helga" was going to come babysit us. This so called babysitter was described as a horrid woman and we were terrified of her. As soon as she was mentioned we'd turn into little angles. The story of Helga kept us behaved for years.
A childhood belief about family
others believed things like this
- my parents used to tell me and my sisters that if we ate our vegtables our eyes would turn green..— alex t
- I used to believe that if i behaved badly i would be taken away in a yellow van.— Mattio
- i used to believe that the rag and bone man would come and take me away if i wasn't well behaved— ambrosez
- I used to believe that if passed beneath a rainbow I would turn into a woman.— Felipe
- I used to think an evil spirit type thing called Wango lived in my dog. I was terrified of that dog.— Franklin
- My sister just recently realized that the lyric "more than a woman" wasn't 4 letter woman!— Anne