To consider saying "who the f**K is Alice?" whenever my daughter mentions Alice, her imaginary friend

[professorsnape]

This week, lines from my DD, aged 3 and a half, included:

"Alice wants her dinner Mommy. Can she sit beside me?"

"No Alice doesn't want milk, she wants an apple juice."

"Alice want to go on the merry-go-round".

"Sshhh, I'm reading Alice a book now Mommy".

I feel like saying "Who the f* is Alice?", like that song :)

Am I going slightly crazy to be even asking you all this? :)

[hgrin]

not unreasonable at all to consider saying it, or even to sing it in your head "Alice, Alice, who the fuck is Alice".
It would probably be a bad move to actually put voice to it though :)

if it helps ... my dd (4) has an imaginary friend / brother / superhero (depending on her mood)... his name.... Justin FECKING BIEBER

yup

no - she has no idea who he is really, but saw a music video of his once (that bloody baby baby one) and since then he became her boyfriend and now her whateverthefeckhermoodgoes with.... last night he was her friend and he was sleeping over in her bed!

Do you actually have to pour Alice a drink? One that's not for your dd?

I think you're doing great . I have no imagination what so ever, so I'm impressed you've managed so far.

Keep smiling

My dd used to have an imaginary friend called ebony! She is 10 now & denies can't remember this

Hope Alice isn't causing trouble?! 'Ebony' could sometimes be responsible for undesirable occurrences....

Your daughter isn't called Sally is she? Just recalling the lyrics

I like it happydog but no :)

yes, i do have to feed/pour drinks for imaginary friends, like i don't have enough to do (also have twin DSs) :)

yes herladyship, Alice always spills the drinks you know, never DD ;)

YANBU!

I have a relative who's little DD has an imaginary friend - an elephant.

Lots of elephant in the room jokes.

I remember having a friend called Kelly, but I spent half the time just trying to remember her name - v.confused 3yo. My nan still regales us with the stories now

YABU
Its a game - just play it fgs
Get yer own imaginary friend if it helps

I just have to say.... ha ha ha ha ha ...... that is all

Ah, the days of 'Mr Nobody' and 'Invisible Peter', they got up to some tricks in their times...I loved it.

Download the song, bleep the "fuck" and play it to her whenever she mentions the little cow

I think my DS's best was

"Piper Mabottom is sitting on the aeroplane wing, Mummy" shall we ask hi to come in"

Cue several very worried looking faces on the other passengers.. we were in mid-flight

My mantra is 'Never feed the stray children!'. It was developed when we lived in a cul-de-sac where the children roamed in packs and I decided the only line I could draw was at actually giving them food! I reckon it would apply just as well to imaginary children.

Have nothing helpful to add, except your thread title made me laugh out loud, thank you!

I won't say exactly what as it would out me a million times over but DD has an imaginary wild animal friend, who has since got married and had babies of its own. We're a little cramped here

My imaginary friend was called Chalky, she was as white as chalk. She had spiky hair (think Maggie from the Simpsons) and she used to walk home from infant school with me, just me and her alone (WTF was my mum thinking?)
My brother said he had a friend called David Dogs (he was David himself, so not such a good imagination as me)
When we used to share a bedroom I used to say Chalky is coming to take me to her planet tonight and he'd say David Dogs was coming to get him.
Chalky certainly wasn't around for long, but I sometimes think she was my guardian angel.
Bless her!
I'm 52 now!

I once had a boyfriend who had an ex called Alice.

He used to go on and on and on about how beautiful and talented and wonderful, etc she was.

I laugh as I remember I'm ashamed to say when I saw a T-shirt with "Who the f*ck is Alice?" on I couldn't resist buying it.