When we’re kids, we keep a lot of secrets. Usually those are silly secrets that are only kept so we don’t get grounded! For example, I stole my friend’s Barbie when I was a kid, but I denied it for a long time because it was the coolest Barbie and I wanted to keep it. I finally fessed up because I’d get in more trouble if I didn’t!

Last week Megan and I had the opportunity to do a seminar on Secret Survivors at the National Youth Workers Convention, and around 300 people attended. During the seminar, we had people write down a silly childhood secret that they kept (and some people still never told anyone until they wrote it down that day!). We got some good ones and wanted to share a few. The point of this was to help break the ice a little when it comes to sharing secrets. Sometimes it’s easier to tell something silly, while still remaining anonymous, in order to work up the courage to reveal your real secret…even if you do that anonymously too. So here goes. If you’ve got your own crazy childhood secret, let us know!

*Would “poot” in class and blame the quite girl in front of me that always alphabetically sat in front of me.

*My brothers would put me in the bottom of a sleeping bag and roll me down the stairs.

*My best friend, Steve, and I would hide in the trees and shoot cars that drove by with his B-B gun.

*I spray painted a cow and blamed it on the kids up the road.

*I stole 30 chocolate milks in the lunch line in 3rd grade. I was caught and had to pay $1.50 for the milks.

*I opened all my Christmas presents 4 days before Christmas and wrapped them again.

HA! Some of these really cracked us up. Let us know your silly childhood secret… It’s the first step in finding the courage to talk about the deeper stuff. And if you really want to share, check out our Secret Survivors network.

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