Learning about the world
Fourteen or fifteen years ago, my sister and I were sitting by the side of a small winding road in Croatia at night. Our dad had driven the car into a rock and we had to wait a long time for help. Looking at the sky, I saw my first shooting star. I told my sister about it and she thought I’d made it up. I’d read about meteors recently and knew why they glowed, but she thought shooting stars were just a fairy tale device.
When I was about seven I didn’t believe in rainbows.
Was there anything that you thought was another fantasy adults told children, that you found out to be true after all?
