To ask - what's the creepiest thing your child has ever said?

[BackInBlack78]

Just this!

Maybe a sense of duty/nobility?
I have abusive parents and for years if someone seemed 'off' I'd voluntarily divert them to save other children. Partly a sense of low self esteem I guess but also not wanting anyone else to get hurt.
Maybe they are chosen for the same reasons? They are strong enough to bear it and do so as a kindness to others? I know if I had to choose I'd take my parents rather than force someone else to grow up with them.

Yep, guess those kids are just gluttons for punishment, eh? This is one of the worst thing I've ever heard on MN.

This thread started out fun.

liz60 six months ago I would have said your explanation was barking mad, but events surrounding a relatives death have completely changed my perspective.

When I was small (not 100% sure how old, but definitely below 7) I was at my Granny's house and happily playing on the floor when I suddenly had this overwhelming feeling that my Dad was unwell. I remember crying and Granny comforting me, and less than 5 minutes later the phone rang and it was my Mum calling to say Dad couldn't pick me up as he'd crashed the car and needed to go to hospital to be checked out. I vividly remember all the colour draining from Granny's face!

Said by a 3 year old to a member of staff in the nursery where I worked.

"You've got grey hair so you're going to die."

The way it was said could have meant either 'You're old so will naturally die before the other younger people', or 'I've decided because of your hair colour to kill you first'.

This is all so creepy. My girl isn't old enough to talk yet but I'm fully aware that children can see more than we can and I know that one day she'll scare the crap out of me by saying that she sees someone standing in the corner or something like that

"liz but if children do choose their parents (think Lorna Byrne also said this) how come some choose abusive ones? That's always confused me!"

Me too. I've read that it's something to do with souls needing to live the entire "range" of human existences, to be both the abuser and the abused, to experience the extremes of human emotion i.e. joy to despair etc. NOTHING at all to do with any sort of "punishment", but in order for the soul to progress and evolve by learning through our multiple and varied human experiences. Of course, we're not aware of this while we're confined to the limits of whichever mortal human life we're currently experiencing, apart from these "blips" such as the children who come out with the most astonishing (to us) declarations as we've read on this post.

Again, it's a difficult concept to wrap ones head round. But part of experiencing a human life is being limited in our understanding, I guess.

We had a few when the dc were small. When dd2 was newborn, one of the first times me and the 2 dds were at home on our own, dd1 said to me "who was that?", "who was what?", "Who was that who just kissed dd2?"

Dd2 was always telling us about her past life. She once draw a circle on a piece of paper and announced "that's the pond where I drowned"

And another occasion she told me all about 'the night of the storm, all the trees fell down and we couldn't find the baby'

"liz60"

Thank you for adding 10 years to my age.

"six months ago I would have said your explanation was barking mad, but events surrounding a relatives death have completely changed my perspective. "

Please share, if you can? Like others, I'm finding other posters' accounts on here absolutely fascinating.

Amazing thread

"Yep, guess those kids are just gluttons for punishment, eh? This is one of the worst thing I've ever heard on MN."

That's not what Rixera said. It's how you interpreted her suggestion, based on her own experience.

Ds once shouted in the middle of a large and very quiet bookshop "don't break my other arm mummy". He has never broken anything or come close but I felt lucky to get out of the shop alive.

Going through the range of all emotions I suppose to make our souls completely experienced makes some sense I suppose. The thought still terrifies me though.

When DD was about 2 she said something about being in my tummy. I (laughingly) said 'oh, you remember that, do you?'.
She said 'Yes, everything was just purple but I could hear you talking'.

I also struggle to believe whole thing about souls choosing who to be born to though..... and at what point do our souls enter our bodies? What if a soul keeps choosing a mother then finding itself miscarried or aborted? And does the soul know/decide which sex the body is?

I don't mean this to sound flippant either, just can't help wondering

perhaps it has to experience those things too to experience everything

Don't know - but HATE the idea of having to be an abuser to experience everything, especially an abuser of children .... can't accept it at all and refuse to believe that's part of the grand plan

Oh well

Shamless place mark

When my DS was 2 he used to talk about the man in his wardrobe and on the ceiling. Really creepy in the dark in his room when he was pointing at the loft hatch and the wardrobe. It stopped after a couple of months thankfully.

He has recently started talking about when he was here before, when he was a bigger man. I think he is just mixing his words up but my in laws keep saying oh he's been here before that one and it creeps me out even though I don't believe.

This is hearsay from my mum and aunties, but when my grandad died about 30 years ago, my youngest cousin was just a toddler. She was supposed to be in bed one night, with everyone downstairs watching tv. She toddled through the door, and, as if speaking lines she'd rehearsed, said 'Grandad says he can't come down because they won't let him. He says to look in the glasses case at the back of the drawer'. Gran knew there was a drawer where all their old specs were kept, and in one of the cases found a little roll of £5 notes - emergency money hidden by grandad.

We always thought he came to her because she was the youngest and most able to listen to him.

This thread has left me gobsmacked. It's so fascinating with all the D.C.'s being around a similar age in all the stories.
Ive always been very 'practical' and thought well kids listen and pick up on things we are totally oblivious to.... but these stories are incredible.

What if a soul keeps choosing a mother then finding itself miscarried or aborted?

I actually read a story of a toddler telling her mother that she remembered an abortion - something about "You weren't ready, so I left and tried again."

I suppose they'd stop trying after one abortion, as they actually seem to be able to understand what is going on.

Now thats just too far fetched. How comes it didn't choose the dad too.

When my older brother was 4/5 we moved from an old bungalow into a house a few miles away. ..when he was told he said, "Does that mean the old lady won't visit me at night anymore? " ..mum and dad... didnt ask anymore questions.

ps moyesp that's what I've been wondering. ..