Comments on: Open Thread Update: Your Silly Kid Beliefs

By: Virge

Virge — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 13:44:54 +0000

In reply to Annie. Your Dad sounds like a gem.

By: Annie

Annie — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 01:45:24 +0000

We lived in an apartment with no fireplace. Every Christmas my father decorated the apartment door with a huge gold styrofoam key which he said Santa shrunk using magic and would then open the door. And that was how he delivered our presents. Then he would lock the door, enlarge the key and hang it back on the door. We believed it. We also believed the tooth fairy came every two weeks on a Wednesday. She was a busy woman. It also happened to be the day my father got paid.

By: Di

Di — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 03:45:38 +0000

As a little kid, I wanted to know how people got belly buttons. My older cousin told me the cashier at the grocery store stamps your belly. I believed her until my mom told me it wasn’t true.

By: Jacqui Denton-Stickel

Jacqui Denton-Stickel — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 02:41:01 +0000

In reply to KATHLEEN DOHENY. We picked out our Christmas wishes from the Sears catalog. I actually thought that Santa and Sears worked together somehow!

By: Jimmy Dean

Jimmy Dean — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 01:49:49 +0000

As a kid I loved black-eyed peas with cornbread. I remember “Peace in the Valley” in the car at night as my family moved again. My dad worked in the oilfield as a roughneck, so we moved often back then following the rig from town to town every few weeks. Listening to the radio in the dark as we relocated (again), Red Foley intoned those deep notes. As our old ’48 Ford cut through the night, I pictured my grandma on the farm picking black-eyed “peas in the valley.”

By: Virge

Virge — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:33:22 +0000

In reply to Rhonda Green.

My late husband told me that when he was tiny – maybe 4 or 5 – his mom took him to the movies. He thought that the movie they saw was the only movie they could ever see at that theater. Isn’t kid logic a magical thing?

By: Rhonda Green

Rhonda Green — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:24:19 +0000

When I was a kid listening to the radio, I used to think all the performers singing were somehow standing in line…in the radio… …. waiting their turn to sign..then Dad took me to Wildwood park, Harrisburg, Pa & I saw 2 singers in person….I asked Dad… when are they going into the radio…”a kids mind “

By: KATHLEEN DOHENY

KATHLEEN DOHENY — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:21:18 +0000

Not holiday related but may explain my ongoing math problem. I thought the bank kept your money in your own shoebox there. My siblings remind me of this yet today.

By: Deb

Deb — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:15:31 +0000

I remember one time i had peeked out the window and saw a station wagon in our driveway and was so confused about that and asked my mom why santa didnt have the reindeers and sleigh! first i got in trouble for peeking then she said that rudolph was sick so santa couldnt use the sleigh that night.lolololol

By: Bernadette Session

Bernadette Session — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:14:58 +0000

My Santa Claus belief was based on “facts” that I had witnessed & experienced first hand. We were military family, & the military was very family/kid friendly. We were treated to big holiday parties on base. Christmas topped it all, with Santa landing in a helicopter & all the children got presents. When our non military cousins tried to tell us about the Santa down the chimney myth, we asked if they’d ever actually seen it. Big cousins fight; no way were we backing down! This was early 1960s.

By: Maxine

Maxine — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 10:50:22 +0000

I was told that Santa won’t be coming to our house because we didn’t have a chimney –
( Not because we’re Jewish; no discrimination here like in the ‘old country’)

By: Belinda

Belinda — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 03:25:28 +0000

I was bummed you said Santa Claus was a “silly” thing.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 02:30:46 +0000

The Easter Bunny came in through the keyhole. That’s how he got in our apt,
Santa would skip over our house if we were awake after 12 pm.

By: Elizabeth Winters

Elizabeth Winters — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 02:28:34 +0000

I grew up in a house without a fireplace. I think my parents opted to have built -in bookcases in place of one. At any rate, every Christmas I would remind my mother to be sure to leave the front door unlocked so that Santa could get into the house.

By: gail

gail — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 02:22:32 +0000

I was born and raised in San Francisco, and of course, saw Alcatraz Island in the bay every day. And somehow I had the idea that islands float. I thought there was a really long chain that kept Alcatraz in pretty much the same place. Over the years, many people have tried to convince me differently about islands, but I like my explanation better!