Imaginary friends!

elektra-2007

I had imaginary friend called "Daniel" which was also my dolls name! He was always getting into accidents and going in hospital! I cant remember what happened to him i must have just forgot to mention him 1 day!! I can still remeber the stories i used to make up as i copied the Heinz beans adverts with "eric" in them!

Gingham_Ribbon

Very normal. Imaginary friends are an excellent way for children to work things out, socially, emotionally and intellectually. They practice all sorts of different skills through them, from imaginary play to working out feelings about life changing events.

Some children even have several imaginary friends, who may be animals or people or even aliens from different planets.

Gingham_Ribbon

goingsenile wrote: »

My 5.5 year old daughter too has an asortment of imaginary friends. Predominatley it is 'little girl' and 'sister' but sometimes there are brothers and other too.
I've been told off for standing on them, not giving them dinner and asked to lift them into the bath on more than one occaision.
They were most prodominate in her life between 2-4, and went everywhere with us. My husband (her daddy) died just a few days after her 2nd birthday and I put a lot of it down to that-always wanting to have someone with her.
Nowadays they are still there but she now calls them her 'pretend friends'- she has come to realise that's what they are but still regulary 'plays' with them and speaks to them.
AJ

I'm very sorry to hear of your loss.

I was in hospital a lot when my son was 2. One of his imaginary friends regulary died in horrific ways and came back to life again. It was his way of dealing with his fears of losing me. Every time there is a stressful event in his life, this friend makes a reappearance.

luxor4t

My 'imaginary' friend was called George. My Mum was spooked because I had long detailed conversations with him - usually sitting on the stairs, but sometimes while we were out, and I made her join in.
Apparently it took some explaining when I kept talking about 'George' when my Dad's name was very different

I thought this was something every imaginative child did: my daughter had a secret horse called Rosemary. I must have spent hours feeding the blessed thing :rolleyes:

deeds

Taypier wrote: »

At least it's a Grandfather and not Drop Dead Fred! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpIi34fCu1w I used to really want Fred to be my imaginary friend!

Me too, more than ANYTHING! And funnily enough so did my O/H.

We bought my nephew an old fashioned Jack in The Box for Xmas and obviously we had to play with it first, :rolleyes: we were winding the handle, waiting for the jack to pop out , but both secretly wishing drop dead fred would jump out and wipe bogies on us.


At 30 years old

delain

mrbrightside842 wrote: »

So cute! My 4 year old twins spent about 18 months insisting that they were puppies. They're getting out of it now... well, it's not constant anyways, though is still daily. And they still bark at me....

I've not heard of that Grampa program either.

My twins pretend to be cats all the time!

For a while, all they would say was 'miaow' :eek:

Apparently Timmy was my imaginary friends name, and when asked to describe him I allegedly described Timmy Mallet perfectly