My Mom used to get me to rinse the shampoo out of my hair by singing "Wash that bear out of my hair," an adaptation on the song by South Pacific.
For a long time, I thought my hair got dirty because of the bear that just kept coming back!
A childhood belief about hair

others believed things like this
- My friend convinced me that if I used a bar of soap to wash my hair instead of shampoo that I would go bald.— Michelle
- I used to think that if i put conditioner in my hair before the shampoo my hair would fall out.— Jerry Moe the Gimp
- I used to think that everybody's hair was black and if you had blond hair, you dyed your hair.— ~_~CoolKid93_~_
- i used to believe that if someone take his bath with a hair shampoo, their body will become hairy.— roslin
- When I was little I thought that dying your hair means you kill your hair.Anon
- I used to hold my hand over my hair whenever i left the house and it was windy incase my hair blew away— lisa