To think my child was a soldier in a past life *lighthearted*

[Esindi]

Bizarrely DD (15months) drops to the floor and shuffle crawls to me when she hears a loud noise. She walks and runs perfectly well but if something shocks her she’ll drop straight away and roll or shuffle James Bond like.
We don’t really watch TV and daycare have not taught it as lockdown procedures so I’m concluding past life?
Does anyone else’s little one do strange things like this? Or is this normal and I need to stop overthinking things?

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You're being ridiculous.

Your child didn’t have a past life.

Well no, because there's no such thing as past lives.

People are so close minded! Plenty of cultures and religions believe in past lives, and none of us know either way for sure!

So just me reading this as a light-hearted jokey thread then?

I guess you missed light hearted in your title?

I’m assuming this was a jokey post intending to get others to share similar things their children do which seem randomly related to a past life? You might want to ask Mumsnet to put light hearted in the title, as all you’re going to get now is people taking you seriously and saying “no such thing” etc.

@Esindi you made me laugh OP 😂😂😂
( in case it’s meant to be lighthearted!😉)

My son would only eat noodles as a toddler. I guess he was a pasta chef, or perhaps a male first year student accidentally in self catering halls, in his past life?

@CulturallyAppropriatedName

Maybe your kid was a mumsnetter in a past life and they mistake the loud bang for a knock at the door?

Cardinal sin of not putting 'lighthearted' in the title op. Made me chuckle anyway my DS did that.

Holy cow I didn’t mean it seriously! Really people, calm down- inference has been taught in schools for decades.

My child does a silly thing, does yours do silly things too? Thank you so much for people who saw it as lighthearted.

My first baby never crawled, much to my mother's horror, she shuffled on her bottom, looked over her shoulder and adjusted her course to get where she wanted to be! As I was dinghy racing until 6/7 months she may have been tacking to lay the mark!

Also I’ve reported the thread to put lighthearted in it.

Love the noodle student past life. That’s mine too!

My toddler was a CIA interrogator in his past life. He's an expert at various torture techniques, including extreme sleep deprivation, subjecting me to constant loud noise, and when he was younger he even tried to waterboard me a few times when I changed his nappy.

Sounds like a strongly retained moro-reflex to me

I think my son was a naturist in his past life as it is so hard to get clothes on him and he is 6 now. He is all about the naked life

Mine too, AvoidingRealHumans. He loves nothing better than running about the garden in the buff. You only have to look away for 2 seconds and he's shed another piece of clothing. Ditto bed covers at night.

daycare have not taught it as lockdown procedures

What on Earth sort of lockdown procedure would involve children dropping to the floor and shuffling to their caregiver?

@Smallsteps88
A lot...
qed.qld.gov.au/emergencymanagement/Documents/det-approach-school-lockdowns.docx

Right, well first of all I, (understandably, given the current situation we are in,) thought you meant lockdown as in covid lockdown, not “armed attackers are in the nursery” lockdown.

And second of all, that link you provided makes no mention of children dropping to the floor and shuffling to their caregiver

How funny, this made me laugh!!!

@Smallsteps88 understandable, but lockdown procedures were termed in schools and nurseries long before Covid. Probably going back to Dumblane etc in the UK (when I lived there they were in place). That won’t as it’s the equivalent of the DOE so spans kindergarten to year 12, it would be very weird 18 year olds crawling towards caregivers with their arms open (unless they’d been in the pub).

but lockdown procedures were termed in schools and nurseries long before Covid.

Yes but we’re in covid lockdown right now so...