I was often told if I made an ugly face it might freeze that way.
I believed life would be perfect once I got school over with and was free. I always felt like school was more of a a confinement/torture than an opportunity to learn.... probably why I home educated my own three children.
I believed that everything adults said was true. (HA!) The day the neighbor kid told me there was no Santa, the bottom fell out of my world! Took me a long time to get over that. Hence, we always told our kids that Santa was just pretend.