Has your kid ever said something that gave you the chills?

My eldest daughter, Faye was an IVF baby but when she was about 2, going on 3, she started asking for a baby brother or sister. After a while she started telling the teachers at nursery that I was having a baby - they kept asking me about it and I just laughed and told them that there was absolutely no chance as we couldn't have babies unassisted.

One day, a few months later I took her shopping at Tesco's. Whilst eating a sandwich in the cafe' she looked up and said 'Mummy, you're pregnant aren't you? You have a baby in your tummy' She had only just turned 3 and the way she said it was really strange. I did a quick calculation and thought that I could be late so the first thing I put in the trolley was a pregnancy test.. but I was so convinced that she was wrong I also bought a bumper pack of tampax

The first thing I did when I got home was take the test, utterly convinced that it couldn't possibly be positive and felt totally stupid for doing it in the first place... and bugger me, if there wasn't 2 thick blue lines on that stick!!! It was a bit of a shocker I can tell you!

From the very beginning she said that she was having a sister, so at 20 weeks I thought it best to pay and have the sex checked at a private scan (so we could prepare her if it was a boy). We took her along but she was too busy playing on the sofa and when we asked her if she wanted to see the screen she said 'no mummy, I keep telling you, it's a girl' and shrugged... bugger me, it WAS a girl!! Elsa was born 19 weeks after that scan

I keep trying to get the lottery numbers out of her but nothing yet

So, do we have any other spooky kids on the org?

cute.

As i've become more vocal about my spiritual beliefs with my mom she's opened up to me more and she told me about one time with my sister (before my brother and I were born) for some reason or another my mom told her to "knock it off" and my sister (who was probably no higher than my mother's knee) put her hands on her hips and flat out said "in my life before you couldn't do that!" my mom taken aback and had never gave reincarnation a real thought until that moment.

Also...

not quite as creepy but my brother and I were born a few months early and had to be held in the hospital for quite some time. Born in July i wasn't released until about a week before Christmas. My mother and Father had the Christmas tree up but my sister was adamant about keeping the star/angel off the top (i was told it was a star but never in my life do i remember having anything but an angel ) she told my parents "The tree can't be finished until the untire family is home and safe" sure enough as I said about a week before Christmas the hospital called telling my mom she could come and take her babies home and we had a star on the tree for Christmas.

It all kinda runs in the family but my sister is probably better at it than most of us. when she was born the first time my great-grandma held her she said she was an old soul.
My sister was at the hospital the day after my aunt had had her baby a few years ago and all of the nurses on the floor said no new born baby had ever been as active and self aware as when my sister was with him. I babysat for him and now that he's a little bit older and can do alot of things for himself I notice him talking to chairs when no one's in them or when we play hand clapping games he'll takes turns as if we're playing with a 3rd person.

I don't know if all of this is spooky per se but I think it's neat. I want a spooky child
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One of my nephews did.

He was only 5 or 6, and at the time I was going through one of many breakups with my ex girlfriend , and I wasn't really happy at that time.

I took them out to the beach, prepared the entire day, joked, played around and did my usual 'uncle Dan' routine. We had a blast that day and I thought I honestly wasn't heavily 'down' over the entire thing.

While we were eating pizza at our favorite pizza parlor at St. Armands circle in Lido Beach, my youngest nephew looked at me (remember this kid is only 5 or 6 at the time) and says, "Uncle Dan, why are you so sad?"

I told him I was exhuasted. Meaning "emotional exhausted" so I only half-lied. I think he didn't buy it. But it freaked me out. Are 5 and 6 year olds supposed to be able to see through the 'act' that grownups put on for them?

matthewgrant said:

This is quite an old superstition, which she's obviously carried through

Loads of people said that my daughter had an 'old soul' or had 'been here before' and I think they're right. Even now, she's almost 5 and the things she says sometimes really stops me in my tracks... not always for the best

Imago said:

Yes and that's just the tip of the iceberg - children are incredible
far more so then many give them credit for

As I always say - we adults should strive to be far more like the children




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Mach said:

I went a week without bathing much and often show my genitals to strangers for fun. Doesn't that count?

Imago said:

They're not daft these kids and they don't miss a trick Faye is very much like that and will come up and hug me when I'm down, despite me hiding it I don't think that it's the case with all kids though - I guess some are more tuned in than others

How sweet of him that he was emotionally tuned to you and cared enough to ask

Imago said:

Mach said:

Imago said:

These stories are fascinating. I truely believe.

matthewgrant said:

I was in a car with my mom and her friend and they were having a conversation about my moms friend's grand daughter making similar comments about a past life...the kid shocked them because she mentioned stuff she had no way of knowing.