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Childrens Invisible Friends
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Persephone | Report | 14 Sep 2009 07:23 |
And my husband reckons I do not learn anything on here. I am amazed at the various threads. He thinks they are all chatter but I do quite often glean some interesting bits of information which I copy and save. |
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Len of the Chilterns | Report | 13 Sep 2009 23:12 |
I have a couple of Robert Winston's books. He is excellent in his own field but a bit blinkered otherwise. |
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Persephone | Report | 13 Sep 2009 13:14 |
Thanks Len. |
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Len of the Chilterns | Report | 12 Sep 2009 23:23 |
Persephone: That is an interesting question. There is no reason at all why they should not have imaginary friends but do they have shared imaginary friends? I guess only a twin can answer that. |
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Jean (Monmouth) | Report | 12 Sep 2009 19:37 |
What does it say for a pair of 74 yr olds who have a large amount of teddies, and talk to them? We have conversations with the cats as well. My neighbour laughs when she sees my OH feeding the pond fish because he talks to them, telling some they are greedy and to leave some for the little ones. |
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Jane | Report | 12 Sep 2009 18:05 |
My imaginary friend was called Jesus lol.He used to go everywhere with me and we would sit on the back doorstep and have tea parties.I know my Mum cringed when we would be on the bus and I wouldn't let anyone sit next to me because they would squash Jesus. |
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Persephone | Report | 12 Sep 2009 08:12 |
Can someone tell me - do twins have imaginary friends? |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 12 Sep 2009 05:13 |
My daughter had an imaginary friend, who often used to have to eat with us! We had to make sure that both were comfortable a t bedtime. |
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Len of the Chilterns | Report | 11 Sep 2009 22:47 |
Many psychic children, and also children who do not otherwise appear to be psychic, have imaginary playmates. This sometimes worries their parents who believe them to be hallucinating. Sometimes it scares the parents who then actively discourage the child from talking about it. All this achieves is to frighten the child who subsequently believes it somehow must have done something wrong, and acquires a strong sense of insecurity. |
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Len of the Chilterns | Report | 11 Sep 2009 22:19 |
Susan |
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blackrose | Report | 11 Sep 2009 08:55 |
I always understood that there was a theory that imaginary friends were often spirits and that young children especially are particularly sensitive to them. My youngest always had an imaginery friend who she spent hours talking to but she was always popular and had loads of friends and also being the youngest of three who were very close in age she often wanted time on her own so her imaginery friend wasnt borne from lonliness. she has always being very sensitive and intuitive. |
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Persephone | Report | 11 Sep 2009 01:19 |
I learnt so much from my imaginary friends - they always seemed so knowledgeable. LOL |
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Susan10146857 | Report | 11 Sep 2009 00:53 |
The thought had crossed my mind Len.......Did you have an imaginary friend? and also....we have heARD WHAT THE SO CALLED EXPERTS HAVE TO SAY ON THE SUBJECT....BUT WHAT IS YOUR OPINION AS TO THE REASONS FOR SAID IMAGINARY FRIENDS.....I WOULD ALSO BE INTEREsTED TO READ OPINIONS OF OTHERS......(.Sorry Caps lock)!...... can't write it over ...please don't make me sob! |
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Len of the Chilterns | Report | 10 Sep 2009 22:59 |
Hi Susan |
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Sharron | Report | 10 Sep 2009 13:54 |
I wonder if Mrs Jannocky and her son Snapdragon are still about.I haven't heard from them for fifty odd years now. |
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mamiddau | Report | 10 Sep 2009 12:01 |
My daughter is 5, and has several, she calls them her pretend friends, they appear to be much more fun than her younger brother! I had one too....it was a squirrel, called skiw....! when we moved when I was about 5, my mum and dad convinced me that Skiw was hibernating, and we couldn't take him with us. I was apparently ok with this, until my uncle came to visit, and "brought" Skiw with him...... |
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TaniaNZ | Report | 10 Sep 2009 05:53 |
well we had a little horror called sparky living in our house,got up to all sorts of things until my youngest was about 5 years old then he suddenly disappeared. |
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Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond | Report | 10 Sep 2009 03:44 |
Susan, are you going to change your name to Susan Valentine lol? |
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MargarettawasMargot | Report | 10 Sep 2009 02:48 |
My youngest sister had two.Their names were Desley and Jesley, we would hear her having a great conversation with them when she was in the bath.We had 3 girls in the family,there was 2 years between myself and my younger sister,and then a 5 year gap between the middle sister and the youngest.She tended to be left out of things,as she was the baby sister,so I'm sure that she made up these imaginary friends to compensate.She was about 5 or 6 I think.She is now in her early fifties,(53rd birthday today), has always been very popular at school,and now enjoys a very busy social life,is very articulate,so I'm quite sure that she suffered no ill effects! |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 10 Sep 2009 00:48 |
Both my daughters had imagnary friends - and both were called Patrick! |
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