Daily writing prompt

What’s something you used to believe as a kid that seems ridiculous now?

View all responses

My older brother, Tim, and I had this nature book. It had all sorts of animals, birds, and insects in it…basically, it was an encyclopedia (sp?). We would sit down together and look through it. He would ask me, “How hard do you think a bear can bite?” I’d say, “I don’t know, how hard can a bear bite?” And then he’d punch my arm to show me how hard a bear could bite. We’d do this over and over for all the creatures in the book. And I took it for gospel. However hard he hit me was however hard those creatures bit or stung or whatever; because my big brother said so! The really crazy thing is, we did this often. He was 11. I was 7.