I also remember that my parents used to tell me and my brothers if you crossed your eyes for a long time you might stay like that forever. Currently I see that my parents were not very kind when they frightened us with silly things like this.
A childhood belief about family
others believed things like this
- I used to beleive if i crossed my eyes they'd stay like that.. haha— L Bennett
- when I was young I used to believe if I squinted my eyes and it was windy my eyes would stay like this forever— Jeanne
- if i rolles my eyes, it would stay like that foreverAnon
- I used to believe that bodies that were embalmed would stay preserved forever.— Leelee
- My mom always told me if I made an ugly face it would stay that way forever.Anon
- When I was little, I believed my parents really had eyes in the back of their head.— Tera