About a year ago my son (who is 6 on Thursday) started saying that he didn't want to get older than 10. Older than 10 was too serious, he wanted to stay little etc. Apparently they also discussed it at school (In reception! So much angst!) So far ok. But then he came home one day and said that one of the girls in another class at school had said that he would die when he was 11.
My blood ran cold. I think I am quite superstitious and believe in fate and I wondered if this girl (who could have only been 4 or 5) had simply thought "well if you don't want to be older than 10 you'll have to die when you are 11" or whether she was making some sort of prediction.
I have tried to put it out of my mind but on Saturday my son was at a friend's party and according to his mum the friend had been broken-hearted at the idea of being 6 because he wanted to stay his mummy's baby forever and it made me remember this and I am really upset now, I can hardly put it out of my mind.
I keep thinking I want to lock him up from his 11th to 12th birthdays to keep him safe (but then an aeroplane would land on the house or it would get struck by lightning or something). I feel quite sick and very stupid for taking any of this seriously when I don't even know exactly what was said and in what context. I wish my son had kept it to himself! But you hear of predictions being true and I can't think about this rationally. I certainly don't want to mention it to anyone close to me because they'd be upset so came on here for some advice/telling me to sort myself out/etc etc.