We were told WHAT?! KZN reveals the wildest things they believed growing up
“If you eat a seed, a tree will grow in your tummy.” Tell us why our parents had us believing ANYTHING.
The world map has just given us all a little reality check.
We grew up believing Greenland was basically the size of Africa, only to discover that… absolutely not.
And if one childhood belief can be shattered, it got us thinking:
What else did we grow up believing that turned out to be complete nonsense?
So we put the question to KZN and, honestly, some of these childhood theories deserve their own Netflix documentary.
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“The ice-cream truck only plays music when they don’t have ice cream.”
This one is painful. Imagine hearing the magical sound of the ice-cream truck coming down the road, only to be told by your mother that the music meant they had run out of ice cream.
“COME HERE, I WON’T HIT YOU.”
A universal childhood experience. The words “I won’t hit you” somehow never made you feel safer.
Quite the opposite. You knew you were walking directly into a trap.
“People are singing inside the radio.”
One KZN listener took this belief to the next level. They genuinely thought there were people inside the radio singing.
So, naturally, the only reasonable solution was to break it open and investigate. They even used a four-pound hammer.
And that’s how the search for the radio presenters ended with a broken radio and, presumably, a very unhappy mother.
“Eat all your food and you’ll become big and strong.”
Technically, our parents weren’t entirely wrong about the food part. But one listener has a pretty good counterargument: “Now look at us - all big but not strong.”
Fair enough.
“If you eat a seed, a tree will grow in your tummy.”
This one probably had an entire generation terrified after accidentally swallowing a watermelon seed.
You’d lie in bed wondering whether you’d wake up with branches coming out of your ears.
And don’t even think about watering yourself.
“Your belly button is a screw.”
One grandpa apparently had a particularly creative way of keeping a child from fiddling with their belly button.
They were told it was basically a screw, and if they played with it too much, their arms and legs would fall off.
Honestly, that’s one way to guarantee you never touch it again.
“If you laugh late at night, someone will die.”
One KZN parent clearly had enough of children laughing like hyenas after bedtime.
So the solution? Tell them that if they laughed late at night, someone would die.
Suddenly, bedtime was very quiet. Terrifying? Yes. Effective? Also yes.
“Thunder and lightning mean God is angry.”
For some KZN kids, a thunderstorm came with a side of detective work. If the thunder started rolling, somebody must have done something wrong.
And, as one listener explained, with three kids in the house, the obvious response was to blame each other.
“Wasn’t me!” “Wasn’t me either!” “Definitely them!”
Meanwhile, the storm was just doing storm things.
“The stork brought the babies.”
And finally, we have the classic. The stork.
Apparently, babies were simply delivered to your house by a large bird, because that’s obviously much easier to explain to a child.
No questions asked. Just accept the stork and move along.
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