Page 4 | What were your assumptions about the world as a child?

OneUmberJoker · 2025-09-21T11:22:46+00:00

I thought being rested as in sport star rested meant arrested

Newsenmum · 21/09/2025 20:26

AliceMaforethought · 21/09/2025 20:24

Neither can the planet, so that's really just as well.

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We have a serious underpopulation problem which immigration wont fix but let’s not ruin the thread 🤣

Newsenmum · 21/09/2025 20:25

AliceMaforethought · 21/09/2025 20:23

Yes, but that isn't the same as thinking that you would have a 'middle class job and salary'. Most children have no clue what that means.

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I assume they mean just a ‘normal job’.

AliceMaforethought · 21/09/2025 20:24

padso · 21/09/2025 20:21

I wanted 4 dc, can't afford that either.

Neither can the planet, so that's really just as well.

Alleycat321 · 21/09/2025 20:24

The Russians would take over England.

AliceMaforethought · 21/09/2025 20:23

Newsenmum · 21/09/2025 20:21

To be fair I did. Id planned out my whole family in primary and used to imagine putting my baby twins to bed. 😳

Also assumed Id have 4 children.

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Yes, but that isn't the same as thinking that you would have a 'middle class job and salary'. Most children have no clue what that means.

Newsenmum · 21/09/2025 20:23

Not me but my little boy assumed that whenever anyone went to work it was the same place. So he got mad when both my husband and his friend’s parents were at work as he assumed they met up and had fun without him. 🤣

AliceMaforethought · 21/09/2025 20:21

That all movie stars who had ever acted in the same movie lived together in a fabulous mansion. I was very disappointed when my father explained that this was not the case.

padso · 21/09/2025 20:21

I wanted 4 dc, can't afford that either.

padso · 21/09/2025 20:21

@Newsenmum I didn't even think I'd do better but did assume it would be the same.

Newsenmum · 21/09/2025 20:21

AliceMaforethought · 21/09/2025 20:19

You thought about those things as a child?

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To be fair I did. Id planned out my whole family in primary and used to imagine putting my baby twins to bed. 😳

Also assumed Id have 4 children.

Newsenmum · 21/09/2025 20:20

padso · 21/09/2025 20:15

That Id live in a house similar to what I grew up in 🤣🤣

It was that assumption we’d all do better than our parents 🤣 and yet even a ‘better’ job is smaller house due to house prices.

AliceMaforethought · 21/09/2025 20:19

Dungeonsanddraggingafternoons · 21/09/2025 12:29

That I would own a family home by 25 on a middle class kind of job salary. That my children would not have SEND. That I would never have to worry about money being a well educated, bright, hardworking person. Oh how naïve I was!

You thought about those things as a child?

Newsenmum · 21/09/2025 20:19

Dungeonsanddraggingafternoons · 21/09/2025 12:29

That I would own a family home by 25 on a middle class kind of job salary. That my children would not have SEND. That I would never have to worry about money being a well educated, bright, hardworking person. Oh how naïve I was!

SNAP.
To all.

StrictlyAFemaleFemale · 21/09/2025 20:18

That pancake day was the only day of the year you were allowed to eat pancakes.

Also took me a long time to figure out that grandparents were my parents' parents..

TheExcitersblowingupmymind · 21/09/2025 20:16

I thought we'd have jet packs to get about and flying cars by the year 2000.
I was an avid watcher of Tomorrow's world and avid reader of the comic 2000AD and an active imagination.

padso · 21/09/2025 20:15

That Id live in a house similar to what I grew up in 🤣🤣

Crunchienuts · 21/09/2025 20:12

I thought news readers remembered their lines.
That I would grow up to be rich and successful.
That my parents knew everything (my own children don’t seem to be struggling with this misapprehension)

YodasHairyButt · 21/09/2025 19:57

That the grown ups knew what they were doing. 🙄🤦‍♀️. Also quicksand 🤣

BrisPerm · 21/09/2025 19:55

If you eat apple seeds, an apple tree grows in your stomach

If someone is sacked it meant they were put in a sack and shook around

Thunder was god getting angry (later believed it was simply god farting)

The swastika was the national flag of Germany (mortified! I watched war stuff with my dad and stuff just wasn’t explained to me)

we were all in real danger of death by quick sand

Rice Krispies really did contain 3 little cartoon men in the box. I was gutted when my mum bought a box and there were no little men in it.

Mondaystorm · 21/09/2025 17:22

That if you worked hard at school, were kind to people and always did the right thing in the face of adversity that like some 1980s movie, things would always work out and you'd get a happy ending. Preferably with a plucky underdog 80s soundtrack and a power ballad song to finish on.

Sadly, that just isn't the case.

Woodworm2020 · 21/09/2025 17:19

That everyone got to be queen. I remember a dinner lady at school bursting that bubble for me 😭

Dontcallmescarface · 21/09/2025 16:42

That all men were lovely, gentle and kind because my dad was...I learnt the hard way that this wasn't true.

JLou08 · 21/09/2025 16:23

annonymousse · 21/09/2025 13:03

I also was terrified of dying in quicksand (in rural Hampshire). Also thought getting cut off by the tide was highly likely. Think I read too much Enid Blyton.

A lot of tourists get cut off by the tide where I live, it's happened to a good few locals too. There is a particular spot where the tide surrounds a little island of sand.

Emori · 21/09/2025 16:20

When I was seven my friend died. My family told me that she was watching down on me from heaven. On enquiring further about other people who died, apparently they were all watching down on us from heaven. This made me absolutely paranoid, imagining an entire crowd of dead friends, neighbours, relatives, previous generation relatives, more distant relatives, to ancestors across generations, all being assigned duties of watchfulness over the living, resting on a space of sky immediately above our heads, invisible to us but able to see and judge everything we did. Some days I could barely bring myself to perform any act or speak any word in case it failed the standards of the assembled watchers.

Artifishal · 21/09/2025 16:10

MaybeIf · 21/09/2025 15:12

I don’t think there’s any quicksand in Blyton! I now desperately want to know where so many people got their childhood fear of quicksand….

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I was in primary school in the early 90s. We used to get shown safety videos in school and I'm pretty sure how to survive quicksand was one of them. Another was a boy who lost his football in one of those electricity transformer hut things and got frazzled to a crisp.

If it wasn't those, it was Michael Burke on 999 🤣

To be fair, I grew up on the Bristol channel. Quicksand was a viable threat!