Invisible friends: what is the name of your kid's one?

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LemonTea rang my house tonight

DS1 used to have an imaginary brother called (I think) Zunk.

Bubba, Douvey, Dilly (all miniature people) and Ziggy Miggles the cat, where ds's imaginary friends - I hadn't realised, but they have been strangely absent recently. I quite miss them...

My children don't have any but my niece has a little friend called 'Nibby', who manages to get into all sorts of trouble, none of which has anything to do with her!!

DD1's friend was called Gribby (quite a lot like Nibby!) and had 7 friends. They didn't have any names though.

Are these all first/only children by any chance?

Stinky & sooty - sooty gets the blame for any trouble & stinky seems to have been left here by his parents a few months ago & though they phone don't seem interested in picking him up! DS is our 1st child & suppose I should be grateful he has such a good imagination - though do worry how this reflects on our parenting skills& family life!!

Ainey, Janey and Jay: his aunts / sisters who live someplace else. Luckily they're not so involved now, but they always used to do things differently (ie better) than we did.

Yep, he was an only child then and is now the eldest.

dd (first child) didn't have an imaginary friend, but did used to have a lot of fun at night with the tooth fairy!! Whenever she lost a tooth she would tell me great tales in the morning of what they had done together in the night. They once watched Little Mermaid together as the tooth fairy hadn't seen it!!

Hanine was the name of my little friend, but that was very tame for my family. My sister used to die nd be replaced by aliens called either Susan or Rachel who could do either much more or much less than she could (think socks on hands and knickers on head whilst complaining about being cold at 8:30 on a school day) - she'd keep up the roles for days as well....

Mine was called Sigid, according to my mum. Yes. I was the eldest.

We took two Mr Men with us everywhere for a few months. One was Mr Small but I forget the other. We now have visits from Mr Nobody who does all sorts of naughty things and is responsible for almost all mischief in our house!

Janh - Yes, my niece is an 'only'!

My dd, who is an only at the moment has 2 imaginary friends. They don't have names they are just referred to as her little girls. My little girls did this and my little girls did that. They don't cause trouble but yesterday when dd came home from school she said that her little girls had to stay at school until 9.30 last night because they hadn't finished all their work!

My dd1 doesn't have an imaginary friend but is just someone else. For at least a year now (she's 4) she is someone else, at for the last 4 months a dog. She has not let me call her by her own name, for about a year and nearly always corrects me if I do. She can't write her own name but can write her dog name.

My ds is the eldest too.

Lisa1 - your dd sounds like my wee sister - in addition to her alient forms she'd turn into a dog or a cat - at primary school I was always being called out of my class to help manage my sister (in reception class) who was crouching on all fours on her chair barking or something similar. She could keep it up for weeks, and the whole phase lasted a couple of years - though her grasp on reality took longer to acheive with fantasmical stories only really stopping in her mid 20s (not to say that your dd won't grow out of this sooner). On the plus side she had/has a great flare for drama and acting...

Oh that's hilarious, Janeway and Lisa1. My boys both like being dogs and kittens but I hadn't realised it could be taken so far! Much respect to your sis and daughter, respectively.

My brother had an Imagninery friend called Gregor. he lived in our loft apparently. One day he just announced (he was 3 or 4) that he didn't like Gregor anymore and he was "bad". When questioned further he told me that Gregor had told him to stab Mummy until she bled! >chill<

So he never ever mentioned Gregor again. Surprisingly enough he's growing into a perfectly well-balanced individual!

M2T

Of course he is, he didn't do what the voice told him to :0

M2T

Of course he is, he didn't do what the voice told him to

anyway, as my dh sometimes says

"You're only jealous because the voices are talking to ME "

True Easy - he must be able to pick the good voices from the bad.