My 3.5 year Old says he wants To go home

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My 3.5 year old lately has been saying he wants to go home. ( when we are home)
the first time he said it I kinda of laughed with him, as I thought he just got a little confused..
but it’s happening alot lately. We ask where is home. he says I want to go home. I go in a Aeroplane to go home.
it is now making me feel sad that he feels this way, or am I not understanding what he is requesting.
sometimes we ask is Daddy coming home too or is Mummy and Baby? Sometimes he says yes and sometimes he says no just his name is going home.

Thank you for sharing, that is something I didn’t even think of thanks 😁

I still say this to myself sometimes. When I am home. I did it as a child too.

I think it's my way of expressing that I need to feel comfort and safe.

Past life.

My child used to say the same thing around that age and it turned out he'd confused 'going home' and 'going out'. He'd say it when he was bored and wanted to go to the park or something.

I often think "I want to go home." It just means I want to feel safe and comforted.

Snap!

We had this. It seemed to be his way of communicating a need
for comfort and reassurance. I guess because when they go home at the end of the day they get a feeling of comfort and security? So we'd just say we are home darling, let's have a cuddle and offer to read a favourite book together and that seemed to settle him.

I think some might say this is memories from past life. I have a now grown up DD who used to say (when she was 2) that she used to be a boy, & she even described all of the toys she had back then & said she missed these toys. It freaked me out a bit I must say.

Are you anywhere specifically in your house when he says this? Sometimes my daughter used to say this (albeit when a bit younger, maybe 2?) and what I think she actually meant was she wanted to go downstairs 😅I guess because that's the first place we would be every time we came 'home' from the park? And she didn't know a different word for it? Who the F knows what goes on in their tiny minds tbh.

Is it when he's in a specific room? I wonder if he's interpreting the living room or his bedroom as "home"?

When my DD was 3 she had some racing car friends who lived in the sky and she used to talk about them all the time. I wouldn’t worry. They have good imaginations. Just keep talking to him about it.

@Beentherelivedthat ususlly at the front door or in bed he will say it, but with everyone’s answers I will take note too keep talking for more answers and patterns. An maybe play with w
his actions from here an see if anything eke comes about thank you so much

When you were on holiday did he maybe think that was your home? My DD got confused because we'd moved house the same year. We had to say 'holiday home' if we were on the beach and going back to the apartment, for example. If you have photos of where you stayed, you could show him and say that was our holiday home

If he is at the door when he says it could he mean he doesn’t want to go out

Home could be downstairs ie not bed time, a holiday, or his dreams, maybe he dreams of home. My 6 year old wants to go to china, daily, he's never been, ee are not Chinese, but for some reason feels affinity to China, totally obsessed with anything Chinese.

I would echo what other posters have said: It's a phase, and he is identifying his sense of his safe place.
... but for anyone interested, 'The Forgetting Time' by Sharon Guskin covers this theme. Warning: It is an emotional read but fascinating. It is fiction but quotes from 'Life Before Life,' a study by Jim B Tucker.

My aunts daughter was like that but with phuket in thailand when she got to 18 she left for good never came back to the uk she said she felt like she was home at last.
23 years on she still there and loving it.
We have been there a few times to see her with her mum and shes so happy
married with a child now.
It was the only language she learned and picked it up so fast.
Maybe its not a past life but i like to think it is as it sounds much nicer.

Ooh, a past life maybe....

My little one said this. I asked him who lived at home and he said 'Charlie'. Charlie is granny's dog. 🤣

My daughter used to say this a lot even when we were at home. She is ND and it was her way of expressing that something didn’t feel right emotionally. She often said it when she was overwhelmed or upset. It was very confusing until we understood

Has he watched ET?? 🤣