When I was 4, I believed that if I "planted" a lollipop stick in my sandbox, a lollipop tree would grow. I did this in wintertime, and when the weather unraveled the paper from around the stick, I took it to mean that the lollipop tree was actually growing!
A childhood belief about around the house

others believed things like this
- I thought that the role of Lollipop ladies was to give out lollies. Shame!— Helen
- I used to believe if you planted donut crumbs in the ground, you could grow a donut tree.Anon
- I used to think that if I planted popcorn kernels I could grow a popcorn treeAnon
- My friends and I used to believe that if you planted a rock, it would grow a rock tree. Anon
- When I was a little girl, I used to believe that if you planted a banknote, a banknote tree would grow.— Domi Contreras
- When I was five, I believed God was big as a tree, a tree being the biggest thing I could convieve of.
— Chris