I must had heard wrongly at dinner conversations when I had started to believe that the eggs packed and sold in our tiny farm were laid by my mother and sisters. My nanny had even told me she was too old to lay eggs. My older brother had told me people bought them to have babies. So what about the eggs we ate - he had invented theories about several mechanisms used to differentiate between edible and child bearing eggs. One dinner I insisted so believing they were all denying, in conspiracy to hide this secret from me. My brother denied having told me anything.
So, at about six years of age, I agreed and my father woke me up early the next morning to watch the chicken lay eggs.
A childhood belief about reproduction
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that only brown eggs came from chickens. I thought white eggs were made at the store— Destiny
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that cadbury cream eggs real uncooked eggs in the middle Anon
- My parents told me that scotch eggs were laid by a Haggis. — sarah c
- In my youth,I was always convinced that my chocolate easter eggs came from my uncles chicken farm!— Jamsie
- I used to believe that bunny rabbits hatched from eggs, since the Easter Bunny gave you eggs.— goat
- My father told me tapioca was frog eggs in pudding. I still can't eat it!Anon