When I was little I knew my grandparents, but I didn't know that grandparents meant my parents' parents. When my mom talked about her parents, I thought she was talking about other people I had never met.
A childhood belief about family

others believed things like this
- i used to think when my parents talked that "so and so" was actually a person.— karmely cullen
- Ironically my parents were born on the same day; so growing up, I thought all parents had the same birthdays. Anon
- I used to believe that My grandparents didn't have any other name except grandma and grandpa.— Emelia
- Migets were people who were bad when they were kids and there parents didn't let them grow up.— Teresa
- I used to think that if you met your parents' boss, your parents would be fired!! AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!— Spoot
- when i was 5 i used to think that people only live for 10 years and i thought that my parents were 7.Anon