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Original poster

to find DS's imaginary friend flipping annoying?

62 replies

meowmix · 08/10/2007 15:09

i mean yadda yadda fertile imagination blah creative blah just play and all that but flipping heck its irritating the socks off me. Its like having another child without the sex first.

and if DS tells me I can't "sit there because thats where Peter is" one more time I swear I'll throw the imaginary blighter out the door so fast his feet won't touch the ground.

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xXxamyxXx · 08/10/2007 15:11

cant help but lol

MeMyGhostAndI · 08/10/2007 15:13

I send DS's friend to the noughty step if he misbehaves, I also tell DS that I will confiscate the toys for a week if they keep misbehaving.

Rosyspookily · 08/10/2007 15:13

I found myself pushing an empty swing for the imaginary friend once

Original poster
meowmix · 08/10/2007 15:15

DS says Peter is his twin. I'd remember something like that.

I miss his imaginary girlfriend Lucy. She was great at tidying up.

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MeMyGhostAndI · 08/10/2007 15:16

Are you sure it was empty?

DS has been talking about the "girl next door" even when my neighbours do not have children.

stealthsquiggle · 08/10/2007 15:17

LOL - sorry - couldn't help it.

Can't imaginary friends sit on imaginary chairs?

Original poster
meowmix · 08/10/2007 15:18

apparently not. Peter has an amazing ability to be just under whereever my backside is about to land.

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Idreamofbroomsticks · 08/10/2007 15:22

LOL I used to have this exact problem with DD1's imaginary friend Little Bow. Used to royally piss me off and I got to the point of hating Little Bow with a passion. I even used to have conversations with LB for DD1's benefit along the lines of "Little Bow says she os going on holiday now and not coming back for 5 weeks".

The only way we finally managed to exorcise the place of Little Bow was by having DD2. Haven't heard from LB since!

erniesmama · 08/10/2007 15:40

Little Bow? Sort of thing Paris Hilton might call her child!

We have Ernie kitten. Ernie has an extended family, including Ernie's Stupid Dad. Ernie's mother died when she was catapulted into a BBQ. What would Dr Freud say????

Caroline1852 · 08/10/2007 15:44

I love imaginary friends. My DS2 had one for a while, called Cooper. I miss him.

xXxamyxXx · 08/10/2007 15:44

that you shouldnt buy a bbq

spooklesandwhine · 08/10/2007 15:45

lol

I loved DD's imaginary friend, actually it wasn't a person but a horse called 'sunnydown' we used to go riding on her to the park

contentiouscat · 08/10/2007 15:49

Far worse when his real friends are annoying much harder to ignore.

Id just say either Peter moves or I flatten him & sit down anyway!

MamaD · 08/10/2007 16:10

Hmmm. It turns out that My dd's imaginary friend 'Henry' was the root cause of all the heartache I went through in the last couple of weeks.

2 weeks ago dd went from everyones best friend at nursery, to the one that pushes / hits / bites. I was at my wits end after yet another incident, and asked her why she had tried to bite xxxx. 'He hit' she replies 'squashed Henry'. 'What do you mean squashed Henry?' I asked (knowing there wasn't a Henry in the class) 'Sat on Henry' she exclaims indignantly. 'So why did you bite - why didn't Henry do something' I ask. 'He cant mummy, he's visible'

the penny dropped......

'ahhh' says I 'and where does Henry live?' I ask. 'With me, in my mobile'.

Bloody Henry, turning my child into an ASBO kid.......

alittleone2 · 08/10/2007 16:40

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stealthsquiggle · 08/10/2007 16:41

MamaD. Sounds like an excellent reason for meowmix to instill "invisible friends are very good at getting out of the way / finding their own invisible chairs" before the same happens to her DS...

Twinkie1 · 08/10/2007 16:43

Ha ha - these are so funny - DD had one when I was pregnant with DS - last day of holiday she was covered in sand and we wanted her showered so we could have dinner and get her to bed and pack - 10 minutes in the bathroom - lots of noise and steam - when I went in she was standing outside the shower talking - I said DD why haven't you showered - because Michael is in there and he likes long showers with lots of bubbles and steam!!

That was the last time we heard of Michael I can assure you!

LowFat · 08/10/2007 16:59

DD has a IF called Ton! She says he is her brother - she has a DB already who is 9 months old. Ton has been around about 3 months, no longer.

She runs around like a looneys saying he's chasing her, or that I have to walk slowly because he's riding his bike and can't keep up!

Ton is a pain!

2shoescreepingthroughblood · 08/10/2007 17:06

dd has a freind not imaginary in the true form. (dd has sn) her bloody doll. I have to dress it and look after it when she is at school. and do a diary (like dd's home school diary) for it

MamaD · 08/10/2007 17:10

She was sent to nursery today with strict instructions that if Henry got squashed that she had to tell her teacher and NOT do anything else, otherwise I'm not going to let Henry come on holiday with us!

Was just so and that she had started being nasty - we tried lots of things, punishments, bribes, star chart etc but every day she had pushed or hit another child. We thought it was because another kid had pushed her and split her lip previously, and she was just getting her own back (on lots of kids????), now I wonder if that was why she invented Henry.

So far he has 'told' her that kisses are yuk and mozzies eat spiders (?!) oh and we need a cat to keep monsters away (double ?! - we've got a dog) - but other than that (and of course hitting people who sit on him) he seems harmless.

Strange tho' she will only talk to me about Henry, not her dad.

ThreadyKrueger · 08/10/2007 17:11

The cumulative effect of reading all these posts is actually quite scary. They are out there . They know how to get their way. And they are coming to a child near you.

chenin · 08/10/2007 17:23

I love this thread. My DD1 is now 18 and she had a whole menagerie of imaginary friends. I can remember all their names too... but the most prominent one was tate-tate (don't know where that came from)!

We had to lay a place for him every night at supper, my DD even walked along the road with her arm and hand out, holding his hand. In some ways I long for those days again... she is now at Uni on freshers week pickling her liver.....!!

saythatagain · 09/10/2007 10:30

DD, from about 18 months to recently-ish, now 3 1/2 knows 'Annie Johnson' - she's dead and lives with great grandma, grandad etc, has short brown hair is very pretty. We're not allowed to aks about her, only dd may bring her up conversation. She used to 'see' her quite often and really enjoyed playing with our dd. I thought it was marvellous!

Bodkin · 09/10/2007 10:44

My DD has an imaginary friend called Pierre (yes, even the IFs in my house are poncetastic) who is always sick in bed. He is her brother, although his mother is called Moller. He also takes the embodiment of a small Playmobil figure. He lives in Australia but goes to school in Muddle, and his teacher is called Botus.

We love Pierre . She asked me today if I would phone Moller and ask her if Pierre can come to Centerparcs with us when we go in Feb.... now where did I put her phone number....?

Bodkin · 09/10/2007 10:44

My DD has an imaginary friend called Pierre (yes, even the IFs in my house are poncetastic) who is always sick in bed. He is her brother, although his mother is called Moller. He also takes the embodiment of a small Playmobil figure. He lives in Australia but goes to school in Muddle, and his teacher is called Botus.

We love Pierre . She asked me today if I would phone Moller and ask her if Pierre can come to Centerparcs with us when we go in Feb.... now where did I put her phone number....?