anyone have a child with a wild imagination shocked at what ds comes out with!

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And also a bit worried. Today we were having a little row as he was very tired and whingy etc and being a bit naughty. I knew he was tired so i said if he didnt calm down and behave he would't be going to football tommorrow as he's too tired so he needs to chill. Anyway he got all stroppy and said that i wasn't his mum no more and that he was going to let himself die and walk out in front of a car . I said he wasn't being very nice and i didnt want to talk to him when he was saying such things.

Anyway when we got home we had a heart to heart and he said sorry. He said that someone gave him something at school to make him bad and he could't help it. He always blames his bad behaviuor on something else like something made him do it-its making me quite worried!

yeah my ds1 is like that, he's 5. how old is your son?

My dd2 (4) often blames bad behaviour on the "Bad dd2" Sometimes she would tell me the Bad dd2 had gone on holiday, then earlier this year she killed her off! I said I thought she had just gone on holiday, to which she rolled her eyes and said "Look, she went on holiday and got eaten by a shark- ok? That's the kind of holidays she goes on, you see" Oh, right..

I'd heard of kids having imaginary friends, but never an imaginary alter-ego that they then kill off, but there you go. Imagination is supposed to be a good thing, isn't it ?

She has also told me she wishes she was dead so she can be an angel

joolyjoolyjoo, ds1 has an imaginary friend who doesnt' live with us! she lives in iceland and every year he invites her to his birthday and she never comes, leaving him heartbroken!

Oh phew sounds pretty normal then-he is 5 years old and is obsessed with baddies and monsters etc tpical boy! It was just shocking hearing him talking about how he would walk out in front of a car if i didnt let him get his own way. Another one is -if he fights his little brother he tells me something made him do it and he couldn't control his hands he's obviously into fibbing too! Worried that he might be hearing voices or something the way he is talking sometimes.Im not sure how to tell him off though when he is blaming something else and not talking responsibility he shocks/confuses me into silence!

mine does that too. i think this is a common age for realising that they can tell you things that aren't true, and you don't necessarily know.
ds1 talks a lot about how he can think things in his head, and i don't know what he is thinking, and stuff like that.

he also does naughty things and then says it wasn't him it was someone else, or, his brain told him to do it and he couldn't help it etc etc

Drop dead fred??? .

Apparently I had an imaginary friend as a child that a psychotic psychic neighbour could speak too and all the kids in the street would do exactly what I asked cos of him .

thisisyesterday- I am now feeling sorry for the imaginary friend in Iceland!

More disturbing was when dd2 got Roald Dahl's "The Minpins" out of the library, and now insists that "the devil whispers in her ear"

Jooly, your dd reminds me of my niece. She used to talk at great length about her (non-existent) cousins. Then one day they went past a house and niece suddenly piped up with: "That's the house where my cousins used to live. But then The Lions Came....".

I'd say it was totally normal. DS1 (6) has said that a few times, although not about walking in front of a car.

He also has three imaginary friends. Mingyding, who lives in his dressing gown pocket and tells him to do naughty things, Mongdong who is as tall as a giant and can't come into the house because of this, and Winterboy, who has green hair and wears sunglasses at all times because he is so cool