I am really not bragging, just truly interested if this is typical....

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My DD1 (aged 3.5) seems to me to have an exceptional skill when it comes to telling imaginary stories. I am really not brafgging or trying to brag by stealth, but genuinely interested if other DC do this and it's completely normal or if she is unusual:

When driving, she will ask me to tell her a story, which I do, usually a re-telling of Cinderella or Snow White, which can last 5 - 20 mins depending on length of journey.

but now, she has started to say, "I will tell you a story!" and we then get something like this:

"Once upon a time, there was a horse, called Kicky Horse and he lived in a field. So. One day, his mummy came to him and fed him. Anyway. Then. Another day, Kicky Horse came bak to his field and saw his little sister horse. Called Kicky Kicky Horse. So, Kicky Horse suggested that they go to the market."

Anyway, you get the picture! She uses so, anyway, suddenly, eventually. The stories always make sense, and the characters remain consistent in terms of names and place throughout.

These stories can last 20 minutes and always finish with "... and they lived happily ever after and that, Mummy, is the end of the story."

It seems unusual to me, but what do I know?

ds4 does this - i chip in with 'really?' 'wow' 'fantastic' but really i am glazed over.They usually happen in the car and oddly when he is quite tired

I do love it

DD does this too (also 3.5) and I do love it but doubt she's a genius (not saying you think that btw!)although I would definitely say it shows great command of language and imagination.
Reason I find it so endearing I suppose is that I am very verbal/literary so love that she somehow taps into my world.
Sadly, although she counts to 30+, I couldn't be less interested as numbers/maths bore me to tears!

Mine gets cross if I interject "really" or "wow".

My daughter (3.8) does this too. She has a great imagination (much better than mine!). I don't really know how common this is at this age, but my daughter's teacher at nursery commented on it last week and said it is very unusual in her experience for a child of this age to be able to make up such complex stories. I was very proud, and so should you be too!

My 2.9 year old does that - she has an amazing vocab and Some of the words she uses are just way in advance of her years! Her stories are really very imaginative 'one Saturday I went shopping and on the way there was lots of traffic. It was very hard but I did find parking....etc etc etc!!' I had to video her to listen back...

I think all our children are amazing :-)

Ds did this from 2 and still does it (getting less now he is nearly 6 thank heavens). So much so that a community paed questioned whether he had Aspergers (he doesn't). Referred to a consultant paed who said he just has an incredibly vivid imagination. He would make up stories using different voices for the different characters.

OP, write them down, at least a few of them- you will so enjoy having them when she is older! I wish I'd done that with dd. And thecat is right about that feeling that the dc taps into your world- it gets better and better too- dd and I now watch films together and talk about books, it's really great!

dd2 (nearly 3) does this, I had to record her for a SALT, and she told a long story involving Spiderman (dh and I are big comic fans, so have Spiderman pictures on the walls), a dinosaur - who bit Spidermans head off, and a lady who put them all in a big bubble so the dinosaur couldn't get them. Listening to it on the recording was lovely, and I'm glad I had to do it, because it is the sort of thing that will have me sobbing, when she is a surly teenager who only talks to me in grunts! When she is playing, she talks constantly, in different voices, and keeps up a running commentary on everything.

Dd1 has never done this, but will sit and draw for ages, whereas dd2 couldn't give a hoot about drawing. They are all so different and have different things that they are great at.

DS is 3.3 and does this. He also "reads" his bedtime story to DP and I! If its a book he knows he can recite it almost word for word, from memory, not actrualy reading obviously, or he will look at pictures in a book and make up a totally diff story.

He also plays great tho and like missy's DD has different voices for different people!

He has been read to his whole life and I am a writer, so I would hope he has a good imagination!!

Mine does it - and goes on, and on, and on. My mum listened to him, and said that it reminded her of me at that age, and that she glazed over too.
DS loves books and reading (and talking !), v imaginative indeed, but is not a big drawer