My child has a badge that sees ghosts?

[PlomBear]

Lighthearted!

DS 4, has a badge he calls “birdie friend.” I may post a photo later! It’s a badge with a bird on.

Birdie Friend seems to have the gift of the “sight!” “Birdie Friend says Bob and Rose are here mummy, they like to have tea with us. Bob and Rose are DH’s grandparents who died many years ago.

“Birdie Friend says the men who lived upstairs looked like you mummy when their faces burned off.” We used to live in a former military hospital and I had a sheet mash on my face! The ward upstairs had indeed been a burns/plastics ward!

“Mummy, Birdie Friend says the end is coming soon.”

😂😱😨

Obviously BF is not now relaying accurate info. and is simply interested in/enjoying upsetting people.

Yes, I think it’s time to take the badge away and tell your DS that BF was being mean to people and has not been telling him the truth. Distract him with other things.

Telling kids they’ll be dead soon tells me not to take this badge too serious.

Reading your post gave me goosebumps!

BF is now in a drawer, DS has been told he cannot say things like that to other children. He said he wasn’t being mean but just relaying what BF said. Like he knows SiLs dog is very poorly and will be dead soon.

DS then told me he knows he is going to have a baby sister soon and he told me what name she would have.

All very strange!

He really is a very bright and loving little boy and telling other children they are going to die is really out of character.

Is this a badge with a pin at the back? As surely a nursery aged child wouldn't be able to walk around with one anyway?

Time to throw it away.

This thread was quite entertaining at first but it’s been a bit overcooked now.

Yes BF need to go now. Whatever is going on here, it can't be used to frighten other children. I'd ask Chaplain to remove it personally. I do hope that's the end of it, however entertaining this thread has been!

This is so creepy. When I was a kid I used to see things and so did my sister. We used to always scare our parents with it. But never said things like what Birdie friend says. Birdie friend sounds quite sinister to me. But also not sure if your son is sometimes using bf as an excuse to say things that he knows will upset people. Why would bf claim all the children in nursery will die soon? Unless it’s to do with “the end” that he talks about. But I think it’s out of hand now and you need to speak to your son about bf and find out what exactly bf is saying to him etc

Clearly taking BF to nursery can be said to be not allowed -- the pin on the back would be a perfectly sensible reason to give. And if BF is not there he can't be telling DS anything, so DS won't be relaying BFs words if he does go telling children they are going to die, but inventing it himself. If he does, you'll have a better idea where you stand.

I’d be doing a pregnancy test if I were you OP 😬😉

Has anything happened that is making him think about death? When ds2 was 4 his great grandfather died and after that he talked about death a lot. He used to make his toys die.

'The end' can't be coming that soon if you have time to have another baby first

Oh dear. Hopefully BF will learn his lesson now he's been shoved in a drawer!

So , just back , am going to make a coffee and catch up on BF and DS . Thought I'd share that i bought a smudge stick today as we live in a Victorian cottage and although it has a lovely vibe , a PP said you can bring all sorts back from the super market! So just to be on the safe side 😆. I told my very un woo DH about this thread , he went a bit pale and said he totally believes the lad as when he was very little he used to hear voices in he's head . They frightened him , he repeatedly told them to go away and blocked them out . He is 63 so probably 60 years ago and he hasn't forgotten!

That’s fucking terrifying lol

If you are not just bullshitting us, then just throw the fucking badge away. Why are you keeping it?

Literally!!

Really? I’m sceptical about this thread now

Birdie Friend would give me the serious eebie jeebies!

Freaked out by this and really hoping it’s not true

I’d be doing a pregnancy test if I were you OP
Same 🤣

Seriously, go pickup a lottery slip, slide it I front of ds and ask "what numbers does birdie want us to fill in?" 😅

I think it's only fair. It's about time he started contributing.

What Fizzyice said.

Pickly that's exactly what I was thinking!

His nursery teacher is very nice. She said DS was a lovely little boy but can he stop walking round with BF going up to other children and telling them they’ll be dead soon?

Yikes & I thought it bad enough when I nursery teacher wanted a chat with me about DD & it turned out to be because she'd been chattering about her "other mummy & daddy" & telling them what ladies should & should do & her very old fashioned ideas etc 😐 thankfully they nursery teacher was a believer & said DD had been here before as she'd seen many times in other DCs.

I'm so glad you are going to see the Pastor. If no joy there, contact your local spiritualist church, they tend to have a better handle on this sort of stuff & do work with priests etc of other denominations.

I'd also suggest an obsidian bead bracelet or similar fir him to help block it out

No harmless spirit would be making your DS say stuff like this. I stand by something even very off about this one. You need to teach DS to understand that it tells lies & is only pretending to be nice & to silence it

My first remembered experience as a 5 yo was something like this. It used to stand at the bottom of my bed at night with 2 black holes for eyes, but otherwise looking like a pre war schoolboy made of smoke. We had a room in that house that house that set your hairs on end going into it. So much so that DB & I were squashed into one room, whilst that room stood empty. Voices & shadows in that room would be nice, playful & then told me to do bad things, including killing our cat & how to break its neck. I used to scream NO at it. My DM denied it at the time, telling me I was dreaming, or imagining things. Years later after we left, she admitted she often saw it too & she was sure it had pushed her down steps leaving her with a broken ankle.

I still remember it like yesterday & remember the house well & do wonder what the history of the place was decades later.

You DS sounds very vulnerable to this though, so I'm glad you are getting help