childhood beliefs

Hahaha those are great.

Well I would say Santa Claus for one. But I still do believe in him.

lol I used to think only men could be doctors and women could be nurses. I was happy when I found out women could be doctors, too.. and men could be nurses!

I used to believe in the typical things, Santa, Tooth Fairy... and then we also had Elijah. I would grow very skeptical, though, and I would look for proof of their visits/existence.

For those who do not know about Elijah, he visits dinner on Passover. You leave a door slightly open to let him in, and then you leave him some wine to drink lol my family members would take turns drinking the wine while the kids aren't looking and pretend it was him, but I remember one year I found lipstick marks on the glass....

I still believe in him too. why not. it's  magical and one of the few childhood things I have left    

Exactly Emily, I agree.

I love that you all had these cute beliefs. I honestly cannot remember believing in anything like tooth faries or Easter bunnies..

I blame overly honest parents.

Did you ever look under your bed before going to sleep? I didn't want top know what lived under there in the dark.

lol yes... eventually my dad built me a bed that had drawers underneath.. so it turned into being afraid of what was in my closet.

I'm one of those parents. My oldest asked 6 years ago and just had to know if Santa was real. The whole story bothered him because it seemed implausible.

It was a point where I knew I needed him to trust me then and going forward, that we'd have problems if I felt I had to lie to him about something like that. Also, I was uncomfortable with the lie myself! So I told the truth, and gradually there were none of those things without them being stated as stories.

Now they all love fantasy and imaginative tales, but they still don't get why adults would make up stories and insist they're true when they're not...

^^ Exactly why kids have to be treated as individuals.

I also worked out there was no santa. I was eight, and I heard mutterings over the new bikes lol

I do think it's important when children ask that we don't lie.
When my eldest asked I told him the truth but my daughter was still very little so he helped mum keep the secret and make it lots of fun for her.
My father was much more logical and simply stated that Christmas was a commercial holiday and the all of these things were simple window-dressing to get us to spend more. Explain that the Easter bunny was simply a pagan symbol of fertility and that the tooth fairy was nothing more than a cash gift to soothe children over their fears of losing teeth.

My granddaughter doesn't really believe in Santa anymore but I still send her personalised message from Santa from the portable North pole she likes it and it's just fun, we both know that.

not exactly childhood but I believed girls could get pregnant from oral sex when I was 20-21.

my mother used to sing me this song: mummies are born with daisies, and daddies are born with snakes and for years afterwards, I generally thought my private part was called a "daisy". it was only when they did about it in school I got a bit of a shock... lol