Kids Beliefs

[nerdgirl]

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?

The milk and orange juice thing - well, I just assumed it was nonsense, since you can eat cereal with milk and drink oj for breakfast without throwing up. Hmm... maybe I'll don my lab coat and do some mixing tonight.

Just remembered that dd1's nursery serves milk and fruit (inc. satsumas) at snack time, so it must be harmless enough.

When I was younger my older sister told me that if I slept with my ears poking out from the top of the covers the monster from under the bed would come and bite them off.

Sounds like you need to read www.iusedtobelieve.com (I've tried to do a link and have failed)

Nah, your stomach acids are so much more ferocious than orange juice that all foods are rendered neutral in the digestive process.

I'e just remembered one - my Mum convince me taht if I rubbed salt into my hair before going to be, and left a glass of water on the bedside table, my hair would get thirsty and grow.

Remembered another one from my mother. If you are near a swan and it flaps their wings, it will break whatever bone it hits.

Suprising that I am a person who hates having their belly button touches, dislikes swans and has a phobia on escalators. My mum has a lot to answer for.

Someone once told me and my brother that if you cut down the flagpole in the churchyard of the local church then the church spire would fall down. We believed for years that there was some sort of underground connection that balanced the two!

If you eat potato raw you'll get worms.
If you sit on a damp wall you'll get piles. (Told to me by an elderly neighbour - it was her wall I was sitting on - when I was about 9 - I didn't even know what piles were but they sounded bad!)

And if you put your cold hands on a hot radiator you'll get chilblains - still not entirely sure what they are

Someone at school told me that if you scratched your moles, you would forget who your mum and dad were. Scary.

I probably heard this on Home Truths or something similar, but the priceless one about telling your children that whenever an ice-cream van's chimes ring out it means they have run out of stock and are returning to the warehouse for the day, always struck me as well worth pursuing.

Ooooh! That's cruel!!

Earwigs get in your ears-and if you pick dandelions it'll make you wee.

Still not sure if someone was getting me at it, but apparantly the average person swallows 2 spiders a year in their sleep. gross or what

Ooh, yes, star, I remember that one! (Did you know the French for dandelion is piss-en-lit???) (Or was that somebody else winding me up?)

Marina I tell mine that. It worked for a while but then they got wise.

Ds1 believes that if you listen carefully when you cut a blood orange you can hear them scream!

you mean these aren't true?

My mum told me that if you rub a raw potato on warts, then bury it in the garden your warts would disappear. If you didn't bury the potato the warts stayed put.

My Dad convinced my youngest brother that noses were like teeth, and your baby nose had to fall off and then your big grown up nose would grow in. Poor kid spent months in fornt of the mirror 'wobbling' his nose to see if it was ready to come off yet!