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I used to believe…
My 26 year old daughter revealed to me about a year ago (while discussing
her own 3 year old) that she had grown up in fear of the threat I used when she
misbehaved... of "sending her back to the Indians". She thought she really had
come to me from Indians and I would return her like returning something you didn't
want to a store. Now I am ashamed I warped my child. (well almost ashamed)
I used to believe…
When my kids were younger I used to tell them that there was a "big book for moms" and whenever I e.g. wanted a hug or something i said"you have to give me a hug - it says so in the big book for moms - that all kids have to give their moms hugs whenever they ask for it." My kids believed in the existance of this book for many years!!! And I got lots of hugs from them, too! :-)
I used to believe…
My mother told my sister and I that we were from our fathers previous marriage, since she obviously wasn't old enough to be our mother. Since both of us had blonde hair and green eyes like our Dad, I had no reason to doubt this was the truth. For a couple of years I wondered if Dad would replace her too when she got too old. I was quite confused when I saw pictures of her pregnant.
I used to think that the older you got, the taller you got. My father once mentions a 100-year-old woman that he once met, and I had this mental image of woman who towered over my dad. She didn't look elderly in my mind, just really, really tall.
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I used to think firemen went around and actually *started* fires, so I could never work out why they were allowed to have all the cool trucks and equipment.
I used to believe…
When my brother was little he was a very friendly, happy, panty-hose lover! For some reason he loved panty hose so much that when mom wore them he'd pet her legs and coo like they were little kitties. Except they weren't panty hose...oh no..Acording to him they were " Ooooo... Poneytoes...!"
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I used to believe…
Up until I was about 6, I wanted to marry my dad when I grew up. I thought this was perfectly acceptable, since we already loved eachother.
I used to believe…
When I was little I use to think that my mom was just lying about going to work everyday, because I "knew" that someone couldn't work ALL day long. So on my way to and from school I would check and see if she was playing at the park by our house because I thought the whole idea of work was a lie, and she was just having fun with out me while I had to go to school.
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I remember when I was little and thought that people grew like trees and when you were really old you could touch the clouds.
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When I was little, I thought that Grandfather's were all missing fingers. Both of my Grandfather's were missing fingers on the same hand, one was missing one and one was missing two. I thought that according to how many Grandchildren he had he had to cut more off because the one who was missing two had 5 and the other one only had 3. My sister thought the same thing!
I used to believe…
When my mom put us to bed, she would of course always say, "Good night." This phrase became equated in my mind with the word "goodbye," and so I naturally assumed that my mother left every night after putting us to bed. Who knows, maybe one time she had said something about going to the store after we were in bed, and I assumed that she always left the house. I was at least 6 before I realized this wasn't true.
The strangest part is that this never seemed to bother me!
I used to think that my cousins on my mother's side were grandchildren to my grandparents on my father's side. What confused me was that one of my mother's sisters was one of my father's parents foster children. So it seemed logical.
I used to believe…
when i was really little, i thought when i grew up, i had to marry my brother. He was so mean to me that one day i went to my mom-bawling my eyes out-and told her that i didn't want to marry him because he was so mean to me.She assured me that i didn't have to!
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When me and my little sister were younger i told her that once you turned 13 you turned into a TEENAGER, for some reason she came to think that TEENAGERS were bad, so when a friend of ours came to visit and told her that she had just turned 13 and was now a TEENAGER, my sister ran away in tears and refused to go near her for a week. Funny thing is, my sister is now 15 and knows that being a TEENAGER ain't as bad as she thought!
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I used to believe…
When I was young and heard that a family member had been fired, I had a horrible version of that person screaming in flames ....
I used to believe you had to get married if you were normal, so I had to get married to a man, because I was a normal girl with nothing wrong with me. Not that there was a law, just that you HAD to. Not that I had to be a housewife, just that I had to marry a man. I was nine when I found out you didn't have to get married (people had always told me before but I thought they were just making the unmarried weirdos feel better.)
I used to believe…
No one ever talked about their jobs when I was growing up, they all just went to work. So I figured "work" was just a place everyone went during the day, with gray coveralls and lunchboxes. I figured the milkman and the mailman never went to work because I saw them every day. Ditto my kindergarten teacher and Huntley/Brinkley.
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When I was young, I heard that every fourth person in the world was Chinese. When my brother(the fourth kid)was born,I was positive for a long time that he was Oriental.
I used to believe…
When I was little and everyone would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up ... One day I responded excitedly with, "I want to be a Hooker!"
Of course everyone was shocked. *Ahem* I of course was talking about TJ Hooker!! The police show that Heather Locklear was on back in the 80's.
I used to believe…
when I was little, I didn't understand that my grandparents were my parents's parents. I thought they were just two people called grandma and grandpa. And I didn't know the difference between the two grandmas when mom would say that grandma's coming over. I would ask which one? The grandma with the white hair or the grandma with the dark hair!
