Random things you believed as a child light hearted

[NimbleHiker]

I thought that my neighbours were moving their furniture about when it thundered. I thought that the moon was made of cheese. I thought that periods started on the first day of each month.

When I was small (so this will be the mid 60s) there was an advert for Pedigree Chum where they would turn a can out onto a plate. It was meat chunks in a sort of jelly and the slogan went something like 'Pedigree Chum - gives your dog stamina.'

For years I thought the jelly stuff you got in canned food was called 'stamina'.

ETA The Forth bridge train thing is absolutely adorable.

Maybe you watched a lot of American TV as a child? Sesame Street or something?. 'cop' is very American. I don't think that would be the original version.

For a while, I thought Mrs Thatcher was the Queen. They had similar hairstyles, after all.

Like @FlorbelaEspanca, I grew up in Sarf London, and ‘cop’ was a common word. Dunno whether it featured in that song, as I don’t think I’ve ever heard it.

Most children’s songs have variations - they’re often regional - and I think we’re all firmly convinced that the one we first learned is the real one, the proper way, the documented original. Yes it is yes it is - turn round touch the ground and no returns.

No, I'm pretty it sure it was a guide/scout song (we had family members in both). It's fairly common for multiple versions of a song to exist. Think of The Wraggle-taggle Gipsies. I know of The Wraggle-taggle Gipsies itself, a Scottish version (The Gipsy Laddie), an American one (The Gipsy Davie - the story, with its class connotations, seems an odd one to have survived in the US actually) and one,The Gipsy Rover, which I suspect is a fake antique that is, written by an identifiable person relatively recently rather than a true folk song. They all tell essentially the same story. I know all these because they were all on the schools' programme Singing Together in the 1970s.

Yes I suppose that's true, @WalkDontWalk but it was always 'farmer' on UK kids TV, and on sing-a-long tapes from the Early Learning Centre. Just interested to know how someone growing up in London got the 'cop' version.

Not that it really matters, of course.

Only if it was a dual cabbageway...

I think Mrs Thatcher thought she was the Queen too.😏

My Dad told me he fought a Crocodile and won!! It was actually a birth mark. Years before I realised the truth 😂.

That if you shouted, “Bloody Mary” into a wardrobe 3 times, the ghost of Bloody Mary would appear and scratch you in the face. 😂

That if I picked my bellybutton, my arse would fall off ( as told by my ma)

Until about 8 I basically lived in Barbie land. I thought women were the real people in charge and men were incidental. Women just seemed like the ones that ran everything and were the fun vibrant pretty ones. I had a lovely dad and grandads but to a small child the women were the main ones, when mum was out it felt like a massive gap. Plus there was a queen and Mrs thatcher.

That reminds me of a funny incident with my DS when she was about 7. Until then I had only worked in organisations with female CEOs and she'd met them all. We'd recently had a change though and now had a male CEO. We were out shopping and bumped into him.He said hello to DD and I said to her "This is X, he's my new boss". She turned to me and said "Can boys be bosses? I thought girls were always in charge?" 😁

When I was small, I was convinced that our parents turned into monsters - the green skinned, googly eyed type, not terrible people - overnight while DB and I were in bed upstairs. I truly believed that they were sitting downstairs, in monster form, watching television while we were trying to get to sleep, and they would then revert to normal, human Mum and Dad by morning. I've no idea where this "belief" came from!

I beg your very pardon!!

There was a man who had a dog and Bingo was his name-o!!

🐶 🐕

Makes a nice change from “Harold be thy name” 🤣

With the Bingo song, the Ladybird book of Dancing Rhymes says:
The farmer’s dog’s at my back door,
his name is Bobby Bingo.
B I N G O etc
and bingo is his name O.

But I’m sure the version we sang at school was:
There was a black dog sat on a black horse
and Bingo was his name.

I’ve always loved shopping. I remember being on a school trip, travelling on the bus when the teacher said we were going to stop to “spend a penny”. I excitedly ran down the steps of the bus clutching my purse (might have been on string around my neck). Imagine my disappointment.

I also thought that there was a type of canned milk called ”daddies milk”. Turns out it was just that my dad liked condensed milk. I was probably in my twenties when I found out.

I'm still pretty gullible.

i am sure i read, when i was about 6 or 7, that if you cut your eye lashes and drank lots of milk, they would grow longer
and so i cut them!

How do they know they've been cut? How do they know when to stop growing?

I thought 'Terry and June" were married in real life.
I thought that songs on the radio were the bands playing in a studio there.

I thought that the sparkles you see behind your eyes were fairy dust and that if you closed your eyes when you saw it then you would stop it escaping and be able to fly

I thought that dog poo was the same colour as whatever dog it came out of.
This was back in the 80s though, when some dog poo went white because of whatever additive was in the food! You don't see that now 🤣

I also thought Jimmy Saville's first name was Jim'll, because of the TV show Jim'll Fix It

I thought similar. But it was a crab would sneak up and pinch your bottom!