family

when I was 6 years old, I used to believe that -
only girls could be my friends because all other boys were my brothers.

Anon

when i was liitle (that means 7 or 8) i used to think that my nanny was just a friend of my mums and not her mum.i think i believed this because some children call their child minders nannys so thats how i came to that conclusion

Sophie

I remember thinking that my parents waited until I went to sleep , to go dancing and frolicking in the night without me. I would jump up to the window over and over to survey the front lawn in case I might catch them having some fun minus me. I thought this alot from about the ages of 4 to about 7 whenever it was bed time.

erika24

I spent a summer with my Granparents and we decided to drive up and visit my Aunt and Uncle for a few days. While riding in the car I was looking at my fingernails and asked my Uncle what the little white specks under my fingernails were. He told me that you get those from telling lies. So whenever I lied about something I used to hide my hands all the time. Still a bad habit to this day!!

Tom

this guy i used to go to school with thought that Ned Kelly was his uncle

Anon

Dad's can be so cruel. My Dad always used to tuck me in at night and tell me that he had protected me by sprinkling Elephant powder around the house. I told him that there were no Elephants around here. "Which only proves that its works" he said.

RiTCH

I used to believe my dad is a superhero and he goes out a night to fight evil supervillains and when I grow up I'll be his sidekick.

Erika

when i was around 4 0r 5 i didnt kno that my mom and dad had parents. i never reely thougth my grandparents were their parents i jus thought they were called grnd parents. when my mom told me she had a mom i was amazed!

allison<3

I used to think that all moms wore glasses
(My mom did, and all of my friend's moms did.)

Someone

I'm a preschool teacher and one day I mentioned something to a child about my mom. He looked at me funny and said, "you can't have a mom Miss Kelly, you're a grown up, grown ups dont have moms." HOW CUTE!!

Kelly

I used to believe that all the grown-ups were never little kids. Like when my mom would tell me something that happened to her as a kid I wouldn't believe her. I know all kids probably believed this but whatever.

Kendall

Usually your older sibs tell you that you're the adopted one, but I was such a sissy then my older brother got me with this one. When I was 8 years old, my bother and I passed an old building that was abandoned. He told me that he had bad memories of that place. He said that was where my parents had adopted him from. He told me HE was adopted and that someday he would leave to find his real family. I cried for weeks!

Mrs. Franklin

When I was about 8 years old, I was a flower girl at my parents' wedding which was held in our front yard. Until I was about 16 years old, I thought that they were renewing their vows. That was when my Mom told me that for the first 8 years of my life, my they weren't married!

You mean I'm a b*stard?

When I was younger my mother and father used to tell me that if you were bad in a way, they would send you to the "BAD GIRLS HOME" whih was like a boarding schoolfor "bad girls". Weel, one day my sisiter was no where to be found and I asked my dad where she was. He told me she was sent to the bad girls home and she won't be back for another day. That night I saw her come home and asked her
" How was the bad girls home?"
She gave me a puzzled look on her face and no answer. I asked her
" Howwas it like?".
Still no answer.
I thought shewas shocked beyiong belief and never asked her again. For 7 years I pondered "Where is the Bad Girls Home?" I always assumed that it was located in the oil tanks near my home. It turns out that she was just over my grandfather's house, which explains the look she gave me, but not where the Bad Girls Home really is.....

Spooky

When I was really young I thought that aunts were aunts when they were young and became grandmas when they got older.

Ms. M.

When I was younger my dad used to like to tell me little brain teasers. One day he asked me, "I a tree falls in the forest with no one around to hear it, does it make a sound?" But I didn't get it. I just said how would I know? I can only hear it fall if I'm there and then there IS someone there to hear it! I didn't understand why he was asking me something that there was absolutely no way I could know the answer.

Sam

when i was little, i used ro thought that my mum and dad would leave me someday. eventually i got scared and started to have nightmares that my mum and dad left me for another better kid. i started to cling to them and finally i opened up to them. they promised me that they would never leave me. from then onwards, i always felt safer.

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