family

My parents did not get married until I was 15 years old, so as I child my parents and different surnames and I took my mothers. It should be noted that my parents still LIVED together, they just didn't get married. I, as most children do, thought that every family was basically the same as mine. So, when I was about 5 or 6, we went on holiday with another family. There was something about this family which rather confused me, so I asked my mum "mummy, why do they all have the same surname?". Well it DID seem rather strange....

Sophie

I used to belive that parents were able to see what ever you are seeing even when they are not around.So i used to be realy scared of doing anything bad or that would get me in trouble.

Brandon Quintana,

Based on tales spun by my grandad I used to believe that sitting with your back to a fire would dry the marrow in your spine out. It was only till I was about 28 that I realised the he had been bullsh!t!ng me and wanted me to shift so he could get his share of the heat.

General Vince D'Arbo (Mrs)

One time when I was little I tried to french kiss my mom by sucking on her nose. She pulled away and said "what are you doing" and I explained I was kissing like in the movies. She told me that only mommies and daddies can kiss like that and i grew up for a long time laughing at the ignorance of my mom everytime I saw someone without kids french kissing.

aCopaseticMe

I have three older brothers who used to tease me and make up all kinds of things that I, with my active imagination, would believe. When I was around 8 or 9 years old, they told me Dad was in the Ku Klux Klan, and that he hid his white sheet in the closet. I searched for quite a while and never found the KKK sheet. Of course, it was a big joke. I never found it to be funny!

B.A.

When we were little my mum used to tell me and my sister that if we were bad she would take us back to the shop where she got us and change us for nicer children. We believed her for a long time!

Anon

i used to believe that if i pulled on my dad's belt, a hole would open up under his feet and the ground would swallow him up!

Archie

I used to believe that you just 'got pregnant' you didnt have to actually do anything for it to happen. I also didn't understand about relatives and thought you had to choose what you wanted to be. Eg: you could only choose to be either an aunt, a mother, a cousin, a grandmother etc.

Anon

I was the only blonde in my family. My 2 sisters had dark hair. Until I was about 10 years old I thought that I was adopted.

Sylly

I used to tell me little sister that she we adopted her from circuis people, we are 5 years apart, but look exaclty alike. She believed it up until my Mom finally had to take her to a circuis and show her that she didn't look like anyone there.

Niki

When I was a kid my mom and I would drive by nursing homes and I remember thinking that it was very sad that all the babies without moms had to go there to get "nursed".

Alaina McCullough

My da use to tell me if i kissed and loved my younger sisters they would go away! but there still here!!

meeomy99

When my mom told me she was adopted and explained that meant she wasn't blood related to my grandparents I figured she wasn't but I was because I had brown eyes like them and hers were blue.

Sissy

when I was about 3, my mum told me that purple was a darker colour than black. I believed her, too. when I challenged her about it later, she denied everything.

hm

When I was about 5 years old my great-grandmother told me, "If you sing at the table you'll get a crazy husbend." I Believed it until about highschool. To this day, I tell my own children this.

Ange

When I was little, my dad told me that he was transforming into a welk after he pricked his finger on a thorn in our garden. Me and my sister got really upset about it and started crying. We used to make him little "I love you" presents just in case he turned into a welk any time soon.

Fridgy

I used to think my babysitter was the luckiest person ever, because she was really old (in high school) and still lived with her mother.

Charlotte