I thought that once the parents of an older teenager determined that their child had learned all of the skills required to be an adult, they would tell their son or daughter, "Now you are on your own." On that day, the child would become an adult and no longer had to live with their parents or obey them. I think this belief came from a commercial where a father and son were roping calves and the father sent the son out "on his own" to do the job by himself.
A childhood belief about family
others believed things like this
- When I was a child, I thought that grown-ups were adult.— Gloria
- When i was child, i used to think my father was my father christmas.— BeB's
- that when I grew to be an adult my parents would be children.— Rainbow
- When I was a child I used to belive that my father had forever been a 40 years old man.— Nicola
- When I was a child my father warned me that if i picked my nose, my eye would fall out!— ras
- I used to think that adult kangaroos were called Kangas and that child kangaroos were called Roos. Anon