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Kids Beliefs

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nerdgirl · 21/02/2003 11:41

My three year old son spent 30 minutes in the bath last night pouring water in the overflow hole ( I don't know what the technical term is!)

It turns out that a friend of his told him yesterday that there was a little man living down there and you had to give him water because he was so thirsty!

Has anyone else any similar stories? Did your older brother convince you that there really were monsters under your bed or the moon was made of cardboard?

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Meid · 21/02/2003 11:49

As a child I believed there were little men in my stomach with shovels putting all the food I ate and everything I drunk into little piles to go down the right holes. Every time my stomach rumbled it was the little men having a break and a chit chat!
I will never tell dd such rubbish as I believed this for a LONG time, way after Father Christmas in fact!!!

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nerdgirl · 21/02/2003 14:10

I was asking this question around the table at the canteen at lunchtime and one poor fella was told by his mother that there was a monster under his bed and if he got out of bed he would be cut off at the ankles!!

She used to tuck him in, kiss him goodnight and then look under the bed and tell the monster that she was going now and to make sure he stayed put!

I couldn't believe it! All over the world parents are looking under beds to reassure kids that the only thing there is dust bunnies and this witch had the poor child terrified!

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Bobbins · 21/02/2003 14:16

My brother was convinced that a monkey was living in his bedroom wall. When my parents came in one morning he had a collection of anything that could be used to gouge at the wall and made a very big hole in the wall to try and let the monkey out. He was very distressed that it hadn't worked.

breeze · 21/02/2003 14:16

When I was younger I had a thing about my belly button, I used to put things in it etc, until one day my mum told me that if I kept playing with it, it would unravel and I would shrivvel up. After that I got a terrible fear and even can't bear anyone touching it.

Caroline5 · 21/02/2003 18:31

I thought all green cabbages were monsters after watching (from behind the sofa) a terrifying Doctor Who episode with green monsters much like cabbages attacking and eating people! I now love cabbage but can remember being very scared at many Sunday lunches (much to my Mum's irritation!)

Clarinet60 · 21/02/2003 22:39

That's funny breeze, because I can't stand my belly button being touched and used to swear blind to an ex-boyfriend that women's BB's unravelled if you played with them.......

breeze · 22/02/2003 08:13

Droile, if I am honest I was very late teens till I realised that wasn't the case. In fact people do tend to get my easily on things like this. I am so gullible.

EmmaTMG · 22/02/2003 08:20

When I was little my dad used to tell me that if you unscrewed your belly button your bum would fall off!
Infact I only remembered this recently and told DS1 when he was fiddling with his BB......he looked at me like I was a nutter!

breeze · 22/02/2003 08:21

Just read the nose picking thread and have another one. My mum used to say to me that if I picked my nose my brian would fall out. (so thats where is went)

breeze · 22/02/2003 08:22

Who's Brian, I obviously meant brain (see must have lost it) megg no need to comment here thanks

Claireandrich · 22/02/2003 09:20

My grandad told me that he could undo tummy buttons, and that is you undid the 'knot' then you went down like a balloon!

jasper · 22/02/2003 21:56

Emma TMG that is true about the bellybuttons

Bobbins · 23/02/2003 00:57

Brian... how we have missed him

breeze>
looky here
and here, as if that's not enough

Glad he's back!!!!!!!

StuartC · 23/02/2003 07:13

Have a look here
( First link - if it doesn't work the address is www.iusedtobelieve.com )

breeze · 23/02/2003 07:56

Ah So it isn't only me then.

breeze · 23/02/2003 07:57

Saying that I used to work for a man called Brian and kept sending faxes out on his behalf from Brain. He was a miserable sod who never found it funny.

willow2 · 23/02/2003 16:34

my dh hated his first job so much he used to amuse himself by signing his letters Zorro - with a big Z. It was ages before any of his managers caught on.

breeze · 23/02/2003 16:37

Also when I was younger and travelling on a escalator with my mum, she told me if I didn't jump off at the right time, I would get sucked under.

babster · 23/02/2003 17:16

I was told once that if you drank milk and orange juice at the same time, they would curdle and you'd die. Maybe that's why I still have toast for breakfast

Lara2 · 25/02/2003 20:09

My dad told me that telephones worked because there was a little man running along the telephone wires repeating what we had said. Have you noticed that it's always little men? Perhaps little women are far too sensible to do such stupid stuff!!!

prufrock · 25/02/2003 20:49

babster - in all seriousness - is that not true?

SoupDragon · 25/02/2003 20:53

I wouldn't think it would actually kill you. I heard that they curdled on Chris Evans' Virgin Radio breakfast show.

WideWebWitch · 25/02/2003 20:59

they refuse to give milk and satsumas together at the local playgroup for this reason so I'd be interested to know too.

WideWebWitch · 25/02/2003 21:00

them curling and making children throw up I meant, not killing you.

WideWebWitch · 25/02/2003 21:00

curdling even

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