To be freaked out about what DD is saying.

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On holiday with DD just gone 4 and DSS. DD has just come to me and said mummy I have a question. I asked her what the question was and she asked if she could go to the beach she went to with her other mummy. I asked who her other mummy was and she went on to tell me her other mummy was jody and she lived in a big house, she said she had 2 mummy's at her other mummy's house. She went on to say it was next to the beach and she flew a kite when it was really windy, it blew away and other mummy couldn't catch it. She said her other mummy had a baby in her tummy and the doctor had to pull it out.

I answered by telling her we can go to the beach tomorrow, but the one by the caravan. She said okay, I've got no more questions I'm going to bed now 🤷‍♀️

I’ve seen plenty folk die, I’ve seen plenty born. Gotta say it’s not the same folk doing a reborn circuit.

My 4 yo ds told me one day that his Mummy will be here to pick him up soon and bring him home. I was freaked out at first but then asked who his mummy and daddy were and he said "Godzilla & King kong" It seems to be some sort of play he picked up at nursery. Freaky but I would say very common!

I would guess that since her brother has another mum, she has given herself two other mums. And they let her go to the beach, which coincidentally is what she wants to do.

She's probably dreamt the whole thing as her subconscious has been working through the whole step family thing while she sleeps. My 4 year old often comes out with complicated stories that happened while he was sleeping. They're obviously very vivid for him and seem very real.

I probably wouldn’t be able to resist asking some more questions, especially as she seems very matter of fact about it! Maybe ask her in a few days and she if she can remember.

My son, when he was around 3, once talked about a time when ‘I was big and you were small’. And I always wondered about that!

When my DS was 4 he insisted that he was a puppy. I wouldn't pay too much attention to it.

This really made me lol. I'd love to know how you dealt with it!

I had an imaginary sister, who lived in Africa, because her daddy was an African. For a few days, I told everyone we talked to about her.

This was in the late 50s, when mixed race marriages were very rare.

Would you be freaked out if she said stuff that was more outlandish? Like, when she goes to sleep she grows to six feet tall and her eyes turn golden and then she stomps about in the garden?

No, because you recognise that as a tall tale. Which this is. Just enjoy the imagination while she's little.

OP When I was your dds age I had an imaginary friend, his name was Bobby, though actually Bobby came with his family, his parents and his seven siblings.

I was on speaking terms with his parents, Mr and Mrs Dacre - we kept things formal- but I never had anything to do with the siblings, didn’t even bother to learn their names, but Bobby was my friend.

Children have a great capacity for imagination.

My little boy saw me watching Titanic and basically told me he was on it when it sank, if you’d have seen my face 🙈😂

I expect it's something she dreamt, dreams seem extremely real when you're little. I remember waking up and being sure i had a dog.

This is according to some religions but not other. We really cannot say such things without them being proven.

There doesn't have to be a reason. I told my mother I was a princess (naturally) and my parents had stolen me from the palace. Apparently I had loads of detail about my princess life - can't remember any of it now!

My sister told us all she was a wolf who'd turned into a boy.

When my daughter was really young, like 3ish, she used to talk about when she was a grown up and my husband (her dad) was little!! We wondered if she was his grandmother reincarnated 😂 (I’m not even a believer in that kind of stuff)

At that age it could be something from a dream she's recalling, I think the boundaries between waking and dreams is rather thinner at that age

Might have been a dream. I used to have weird dreams still do sometimes. It seems quite real at the time.

Replying to PP - not sure how to do that! About kids talking about when they were big and you were little - Oh I just posted about my daughter doing something similar!

I disagree. I fully believe in past lives.

It’s fascinating.

Dreams/vivid imagination/youtube videos/DSS's family set up. I would've been laughing my head off 🤣🤣 Kids talk rubbish- I wouldn't be concerned.

I love this so much 😂

My DD had an imaginary friend with a similarly hilarious made up name, I miss her cropping up. And I had a whole gang of friends at four who lived under a bridge and were orphans.

I used to teach this age.

Nothing about this sounds remotely abnormal. Their imaginations are highly vivid and increasingly complex at that stage, and they’re experimenting with their storytelling skills. It’s basically a more sophisticated version of playing pretend.

Tbf, I should probably be more freaked out she told me she is going to bed. DD hates going to bed 😂

of course we can say them. We can also say that Pluto is made of green cheese.

Was just going to say this! The little girls imaginary friend in The Amytyville Horror was a demon pig with flashing red eyes called Jody.

Too spooky for me! I’d be out of that house way longer than they stayed put for!