Perplexing things your kids say

[PurveyorOfBaloney]

Watching Family Guy the other night when DS (19 months) was around. A character fell from a balcony to his death and DS who was watching fairly intently, immediately said "Dead"

DP and I looked at each other in a 'did he really say that??' way, and I had rather innapropriate hysterical giggles, prompted by the though of how the HELL my little baby knew what was going on in some random cartoon, AND that he knew what being dead was.

He has an older sister (4yo), but TBH I'd even be surprised if she commented on it, though she does have a better idea of death after the passing of our old family cat (not in some unfortunate balcony accident though). He also goes to nursery, but I haven't noticed any posters up on '1001 ways cartoon figures die', nor do I expect it comes up in random toddler conversation (cars and 'oh dear' figure rather highly though)

Do I now have to watch out for him pulling the wings of flies, or cycling his tricycle rather fast on the stair landing?

Come back & ask the same question after he has sat & had a surreal conversation with you at 2,1/2, telling you how he remembers dying & doesn't want to die again, & that you are his "other mummy & daddy" & nicer than his first, details of his death & life etc etc - as mine did - trust me, from my experience they just KNOW :)

Or keeps staring out of the window saying 'why is that man looking at me' even when there is no-one there...

we had that one with DD tooSkimpty :)-

or when he asks - who is that man who always visits with Nana XXX - & then goes on to describe in detail my DHs dead Dad in perfect detail - right down to his navy uniform - he died long before DD was born

I've so many stories of DD at this time, she was an early talker & seemed to remember more of another time - her Nursery teacher once pulled me up on it - but she then went on to say how its a common phenomena with early talkers & working with kids had made her a firm believer in an after life & the supernatural - sadly though they do grow out of it - mine rembers none of it now - though does still own up to seeing our old, now dead cat in the house from time to time :)

Oooh these are spooky. I'm not a big believer in ghosts, other lifes etc - but mostly in the manner of sticking my fingers in my ears and going 'laaalaaaalaaa'

I'm on high alert for the "I see dead people" line from DS

sounds like you might have to be :)

Children pick up on all sorts of things without you ever noticing. Whilst you are busy and things go by that you are not aware of - a child will be listening and learning all the time.
My grandson often says that something 'will make you dead' but I doubt he understands what it really means. He also talks about when he used to a pilot - before he was a boy - and he describes his aeroplane as not being like the aeroplanes we see now ??!

Spooky. On a lighter note I dropped my DD (3.5) at my mother's this morning and she was parading around in her coat. My mum says, 'That's a nice coat, your Great Nanny xxx gave you that for your birthday'. DD says, 'Great Nanny xxx? Is she dead yet?'

Got to love them

true - mine grabbed her Nanas face when she was younger & asked if she used to be bigger when Nanas said no, why - DD piped up, "well I thought you must have shrank, as you've got a baggy face"

another we had with DD, that put the willies up us for quite a while -

from as soon as she could walk & talk, she used to insist EVERY night, that she had to say "ni ni to Peter" - for years she would walk into the spare room & shout it before going off to bed - when we asked her who Peter was she used to get cross & say "your friend"

a bit later down the line when she could talk better - we realised Peter was the COMPUTER

@ rockinhippy LMAO!! I really laughed at the "well I thought you must have shrank, as you've got a baggy face"!

These are very spooky though. I'm pretty on the fence about past lives etc because apparently when I was little I used to say the same sorta things about what I used to be before I was me and stuff. I can't remember anything now. They say children have a 6th sense that us adults have grown out of and that when tiny babies seem fascinated at the ceiling they can see people there.

My little brother saw a book about the Titanic when he was really little, and pointed at the picture on the cover and said "Bang". We asked him what he meant and he said "That boat went bang" - We'd never talked about the Titanic or watched the film around him, really weird! It does make you wonder if there's more to life than just the here and now...

MY DS said "Nana says have a nice time" when we were about to go on a holiday to Australia to visit my Aunt, Nana's daughter. She'd been dead for 3 years. V creepy.