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[Jordan2]

My mother told me I told all the other kids babies came from seeds planted in the ground. 

[cosmic1]

My Grandfather told me that I had to eat the bread crusts so I would have curly hair.

My own weird idea was that we all were born as kids or adults and stayed that way. When my mother was telling me a story about when she was a kid, I didn’t believe her. She had to explain that I would grow up too and become an adult and I was horrified. Lol.

My brother told my sister that a bear would climb up the maple tree outside her window at night and come in the window. She wouldn’t open the window even when it was sweltering. That’s when my mother found out he did that.

[Biftu]

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@CelticCrafter wrote:

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@Biftu wrote:
I went to parochial school and the nuns could be pretty mean. We had an old school with a beautiful staircase leading (I guess) to the attic. When someone was being punished they would make you say a prayer for each step you climbed on your way to the attic where the nuns said there was an electric spanking machine and we all believed it. Kids never made it to the top as they were forgiven before reaching the top. Thank goodness I never had to take the "walk." So cruel.

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@Biftu They were really mean, cruel women weren't they?

I went to Catholic school from kindergarten right through to high school and in those 13 years, there were only two that I could say were kind.

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@CelticCrafter  Yes, they sure could be mean, but I just seemed to accept it.  I too dealt with them for 12 years.  My friend is still in touch with her 8th grade nun!  I was at her house one day and two nuns were visiting.  My friend and i were exchanging nun stories and one nun  looked at the other in horror and said to the other nun, "oh sister, I hope we didn't damage these children."  Thought you would like that story.

[Porcelain]

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@PuppyLoverBob666 wrote:

I remember that when there was some heavy cleaning to do, my mother would say, going to use "elbow grease". I actually thought she'd put something on her elbows to make them work better (I really was dumb but then I was only about 5 or 6 years old). 

I lived in Los Angeles at the time and in a way, it was the golden age of radio. They'd pull all kinds of goofy stunts, and one time one of the stations announced, with great urgency, that there was a wild amoeba on the loose in the city. I was sitting with my parents in a diner, heard the annoucement, and became very anxious (again, I was less than 6 years old). I asked my parents to go home (presumably to hide from the amoeba) and they laughed and assured me it was a joke. I believed them about 50% and was still feeling anxious till we left

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Small world. I thought something similar as a kid! I thought elbow grease was for plumbing. Maybe I'd heard about an elbow joint or something and made that connection.

[SloopJohnB]

Blood is thicker than water

[AuntG]

My brother had me convinced a Yeti lived our in the marsh on my grandpa's land. He said it was tall enough to look in my upstairs window. I was afraid to look outside after dark. Basically, I was gullible and fell for all kinds of crazy things my siblings told me.

[BoopOMatic]

I saw a movie about the Invisible Man when I was a child, and I thought a person really could become invisible......

[HallowsEve]

@Linda0215  That is so funny, only because my dad use to say that the dragon flys would sew your ears closed!!!

[lgfan]

I was brought up Catholic so I thought that only married people could have children. To my surprise when I was fourteen I met a woman who had a child out of wedlock. So much for the Catholic teachings.

[katiemichelle]

I believed there really was a god...