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15 responses to “Open Thread Update: Your Silly Kid Beliefs”

1. 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.

   Reply to Annie

   1. Your Dad sounds like a gem.

      Reply to Virge

2. 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.

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3. 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.”

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4. 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 “

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   1. 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?

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5. 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.

   Reply to KATHLEEN DOHENY

   1. We picked out our Christmas wishes from the Sears catalog. I actually thought that Santa and Sears worked together somehow!

      Reply to Jacqui Denton-Stickel

6. 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

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7. 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.

   Reply to Bernadette Session

8. 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’)

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

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10. 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.

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11. 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.

    Reply to Elizabeth Winters

12. 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!

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