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You ever believe something silly as a kid or have an older sibling tell you something that you believed for the longest time? For some reason, as a kid things just make sense and in a strange way things do make sense. I ran into two golden sources of these stories and they are so genuine that they can either be really funny or really inspiring and many times they are both.

The first is I Used to Believe, a site that collects stories from users and displays them for the world to see. Here’s some of the best ones:

My brother and I thought that Grandma lived at the airport because that’s where we always went to get her. Then when we were tired of her, we took her back.

As a 3 year old, I always believed that the little “no right turn” signs on traffic islands meant “no boomerangs”. Being from Australia, this seemed perfectly logical until I was about five or six and my dad explained what they really meant.

The other source of childhood goodness is from This American Life and their program on Kid Logic. The tagline is “Stories of kids using perfectly logical arguments, and arriving at perfectly wrong conclusions.” This American Life already is amazing and is by far my favorite program on NPR and podcast already, but this episode really surpasses them all.

Take some time out of your day and just have some fun reading and listening to the stories. Try remember what it is like to be a kid, how to think like one. It might just teach you something you forgot you already knew.