Things I thought as a Child

Today’s blog post is going to be a little different. Today, I thought it would be fun to start a little series about some of the random things I used to believe or misunderstand as a child.

One that I still remember clearly has to do with decimal points. When I first learned about them in school as a child, I started noticing them everywhere in numbers, especially on TV commercials. So as a child does they apply things they learn to their everyday life and that’s how I came up with my own little “logic” for how prices worked.

For example, if I saw a commercial advertising a TV and the price on the screen said $1000, I didn’t read it as a thousand dollars. Why? Because I hadn’t learnt about the comma yet in school. Instead, I thought they had forgotten to include the decimal point, so I would read it as $10.00.

So in my child mind, all those expensive furniture and electronics commercials were actually advertising super cheap deals.

Looking back, it’s funny how my brain tried to apply what I was learning in school to everything I saw in real life, even when it didn’t quite fit. What about you? Did you think any weird things as a child? Let me know in the comments.