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Listening to kids speak their mind can be a very fun thing to do, especially when it comes to the little ones. Having recently learned to put syllables together to express themselves—but without a filter yet that would stop them from saying how they actually feel about dad minus his beard, for instance—they never cease to amaze those around them with their remarks.
Granted, not all of their commentary is equally amusing. Some things they say can seriously upset or shock their parents and make them wonder where their child could have possibly picked that up. The moms and dads on this list probably did. Redditor u/JrlTan asked them what was the scariest thing their offspring has ever said to anyone, and they shared stories ranging from weird to terrifying, and beyond. Scroll down to find their answers below and see for yourself how alarming certain kids’ messages can get.
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#1
I'm not a parent. But I was putting my 2yo niece to bed, while babysitting one night, when she looked over my shoulder and said "who's that?"
I looked behind me and asked "who?"
She said **"the man behind you. He was with you in the kitchen too."**
We were the only ones in the house. I spent the rest of the evening in the living room, on the one chair with its back to the wall, glancing around nervously.
Marie Frost 1 year ago (edited)
Young children can see and hear things (spirts or whatever you want to call them). Most of us lose that ability as we get older. When I was about 3 I kept telling about a loud creaking sound coming from upstairs. Later, when I was older, I found out a man had hanged himself up there from the rafters. My family moved out in the middle of the night.
Janissary35680 1 year ago
If she weren't a 2yo I'd say she was messing with your head. I know because I remember doing it to adults as a kid from time to time when I was a kid. Totally freaks them out. >:-)
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#2
“Will the man in the attic come with us when we move?”
Biofish23 1 year ago (edited)
Reminds me of a conversation with my oldest child when he was about 3 or 4. We were hanging out, watching cartoons in the middle of the afternoon. All of a sudden he asks, "Mama, who lives in our house " I say, "You know who lives here. You and me, Dad, Little Brother and Dog " "But what about the man?" "Umm, what man." "Over there.". He points to the totally empty kitchen. Then goes back to watching his show, and totally ignores all further questions about 'the man.'
Marie Frost 1 year ago
I would hear a rocking chair going at night above us in an old farmhouse when we visited some acquaintances. When I asked the residents about it, they asked me how i knew 'grandmas' old rocking chair was stored up there (she had long since passed away). We stayed the night in 'her' old room, and was woken up by someone shaking the bed really hard. There was no one there.
#3
My son told me he had thoughts of ending himself when he was about 16. Scared the hell out of me for months while we got him professional help. He is doing much better now at 18 but I am still worried that one day I will lose my son.
Cat Palmer 1 year ago
I'm so pleased the OP took it seriously and got their kid help. My parents didn't until my little sister actually made the attempt - I found her in time and she survived, but the trauma was/is strong for us both. Parents: if your kid tells you they need help, believe them, please!
Kate 1 year ago
This. Please don't be like my mom, who responded by laughing at me and telling me to stop trying to be a drama queen. I really am permanently f****d up mentally.
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Kaye 1 year ago
My son went through with it. I had no idea he was depressed. I miss him every second.
Skadi Lifdis 1 year ago
I tried to get help for my oldest when he told me he wanted to die. He was in the Marines at the time. I called a hotline and reported what he had told me. His command tried to get him help but he refused. A month later, I was visited by a chaplain and grief officer. It's been almost 4 years now and not a day goes by I don't miss him.
Where's_My_Adderall 1 year ago
glad OP took their kid seriously. Mine didn't, and I spent a month in the psych ward + PHP after my 3rd attempt.
Cheyenne Ulrich 1 year ago
My parents wouldn’t and haven’t done a thing. I’ve told my mom and attempted three times, but they do nothing. Im glad she took her son seriously and got him help.
Cat Palmer 1 year ago
Please look for the help and support you need elsewhere - just because your parents are being stupid about it doesn't mean you don't deserve to be happy and healthy.
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BarkingSpider 1 year ago
I have a similar situation. We're doing everything possible and things are going well, but I will never not be scared.
𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚊_𝚛𝚊𝚖𝚒𝚛𝟹𝚣! 1 year ago
Oh no, i feel bad for teens who want to end themselves. They don’t deserve it and they still have a big journey ahead of them.
#4
"Mummy, the invisible man wants to come in your bedroom."
ABSOLUTELY NOT.
Janelle Collard 1 year ago
Tell him to make an appointment: 5 minutes past hell freezing over looks doable.
Red Foreman 1 year ago
Tell your daddy that he can go sleep in his girlfriend's bedroom because he's dead to me.
#5
A few months after my mom passed, my daughter was sitting in the tv room. She looked down the hall and I could tell something caught her eye. She got up and said "Yaya is in her room", and proceeded to go in my mom's room and shut the door. I could hear my daughter talking and laughing through the door. I was equal parts scared of and hoping to hear my mom too, but I didn't.
MushroomHead22 1 year ago
scary in the sense its a ghost. scary as well that you are an adult and understand when someone is gone they are gone; so having a little you that hears and sees something you don't is a little creepy.
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Ralph Watkins 1 year ago
A guy I was stationed with was telling me how they were visiting back home. He was staying with his folks. His aunt & husband lived next door. The uncle was in bad health. His 2 year old was in another room & got all excited. He was throwing a ball to someone & it looked like someone had rolled it back. There was nobody else there. He asked the child with whom he was playing with. He said his name for the uncle. Just then they heard a scream from next door. The aunt just found that her husband passed away.
Georgina Lenna 1 year ago
Yaya ( granny in Greek ) would NEVER ever hurt her granddaughter , possibly they also share the same name
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Not my kid, but my friend's. They were across the country visiting family and out for a drive. Her 4 year old points down an old overgrown road (more of a dirt track) and said "that was where I used to go to school". She told him he didn't even go to school yet. Mentioned it to her brother when they drove by another day, and he told her that well down that track used to be a schoolhouse in the 1800s. Same kid was on a walk with Mom in our town around a fairly wooded pond. He asked his Mom if they could go another way. She said there was only only path and asked why? He responded "I don't like that man hanging from the tree". Needless to say, they moved away from that area very quickly!
Dan St John 1 year ago
The university of Virginia has been doing reincarnation studies since the 70's with over 2500 cases studied and 75% of them proven to say yes. You should go read their studies. Just look under University of Virginia, reincarnation studies. There are several other colleges doing the same work, with similar results. Happy reading.
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Nicole Barnes 1 year ago
When my son was 3, soaking in a tub and sharing his thoughts he said: “sometimes I think am actually an old man who has fallen asleep and is dreaming about being a young boy. He can’t wake up.” I’m still a little freaked out 😱
LAWLAWLAW 1 year ago
Genetic memory always fascinates me, some animals just know stuff (eg snakes) are dangerous from birth, and it's explored well in Aang the last airbender and in the Dune books, don't f**k with the bene gesseritt sisterhood
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José Figueiredo 1 year ago
I dont know, but its interesting... https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/shanti-devi-reincarnation-case
Nadine Debard 1 year ago
I'd rather believe in the incredible powers of children brains which absorb tons of information and remember the most odd parts. At some point, the brain does 1+1 and the tracks by the road going to X place where there used to be a school make sense. Adults totally miss those details. And for the traumatic memories, I would add exposure to movies/other sources of sad/terrifying stories, and maybe genetic memory (the genes expression can be altered during several generations after a big trauma).
The Funny Fox 1 year ago
Reincarnation isn't real, it's just made up. Though, when kids say it you'd probably wonder if they even know what reincarnation is.
#7
A few weeks after my son turned 2 yo he told me “Look, the smoke dissipates”. This is not a word in our daily vernacular so I asked him what that means and he said “It disappears “ Impressed, I asked him where did you learn that word and he replied “When I was an adult” I laughed and asked him when were you an adult and without missing a beat answered”Before I was born”😳
Jeffrey Conner 1 year ago
Had a operation a long time ago. While coming out of the affect of the anesthesia they(the hospital staff) said I was saying things that sounded like Russian. I dont speak any foreign languages.
Eulalie Grace 1 year ago
I remember this very well - when I was around two years old we were at my mother's sister's house. A book of flowers was on the table, and I was naming them as I saw the photos. Totally freaked my uncle out. The first one I named was wisteria. I guess I remembered them from another time and place.
Ąåřţđęşịɠŋȿ 1 year ago
just a matter of fact. back when I was an adult, before I was born... yep
#8
Driving by a cemetery when my kid was about 3 years old.
“Who are all those people standing around there?”
There was no one standing anywhere in the cemetery.
Angela Jubilee 1 year ago
they were 3, depending on the time of day some tall headstones can look like people....
J C 1 year ago
But why would you hang out where you are buried if you are a ghost, I mean I always thought it doesn't really make sense that a cemetary would be haunted unless maybe if you happened to die there. I know I wouldn't hang out there if I had an option to spy on people instead.
Historyharlot93 1 year ago
Old Wives Tales say very young children can see ghosts and angels, because they’re innocent. It would explain a lot of these stories
#9
My adorably innocence 3 year old lovingly told me, “Mommy, when you die I’m going to keep your body so I can pet your hair.”
He was petting my hair at that moment.
VioletHunter 1 year ago
Most 3 year olds don't understand what dying even means so I'm sceptical about this one.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
That's what doesn't make me sceptical. They don't realise what happens to your body when you die. They aren't thinking about killing anyone, that's for sure, more thinking about what gives them comfort and they would like to have forever.
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My son wanted to keep me in the freezer, so when he died we would be together ore maby one day he would be adle to wake me up again. Some time later he asked if it was oke, that when i died, he would also die, if people sometimes did this. I told him he could if that was wat he wanted. No need to over dramatise. Some days later he came to me and told me that he would bot do that, i could just die, but had to promise to wait for him on the other side. So we agreed on that.
Cydney Golden 1 year ago
My 3 year old once asked if she could have my bloomies (Bloomingdale's) night shirt when I die. She's 41 and shirt is long gone.
#10
When my daughter was three she came home from preschool one day and her demeanor changed the minute we came home. She became very withdrawn and looked very upset. I asked her what was wrong, and she said, “The angel on the roof is angry with us.” 😳
Bogdan Chelariu 1 year ago
Wait.... why is that formulated as a question?!
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Andrew Sontag 1 year ago
Did this to my Aunt when I was four, we got into a car wreck her, myself and my baby brother at the time who was strapped into an infant seat in the back seat. We took another car going at least 60+ miles per hour right into the side of the car my brother and I were in. When the truck hit us the back door flew open and a remember seeing and feeling a very bright and very warm comfortable light surround all of us in the vehicle. As we came to a rocking stop I remember worrying about my brother and flew over the seat to find him. He nor the car seat was anywhere within the car. My Aunt became hectic with grief immediately but I knew he was going to be ok because the light told me we all were going to be ok and not to worry because they would not let anything bad happen to us. Needless to say I opened my door after searching for my little brother and somehow I just knew to look under the car and there he was smiling from ear to ear!!
Nadine Debard 1 year ago
When I gave birth to my son, it was 2 months early and he was a very tiny baby with an umbilical cord dysfunction (risk of growth delay). I also had pre-eclampsy, a lethal condition, and the doctors had to do an emergency c-section to save our lives. The odds were still rather good but there are regularly complications in that kind of situation. I never feared for my son. I knew he was going to be OK. I knew it to my core. I was right. He never needed oxygen and never had any problem. A very healthy baby. Sometimes, you have this feeling and it helps a lot calming down.
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#11
Woke up one night and my 3 year old isn't in his bed. It's about 3 am. The house is dark and quiet. I go downstairs and a nightlight is on, and my son is just sitting on the couch staring into space. Doesn't say a word. The hair on my neck was standing up. I said quietly "what's going on?" He looked a me strangely and said "I just have to wait until everyone is asleep" Goosebumps all over my body, and I felt like I was in a horror film. Kept a very close eye on him for a few weeks. Kid is a doctor today and did not grow up to be a criminal. At least yet.
Missi Boness 1 year ago
That's because he's a... smooth criminal...sorry, I'll see myself out.
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Gracie Jay 1 year ago
My sister used wake up at night to find her youngest daughter missing, she’d search and eventually find her curled up sleeping in cabinets, closets, the laundry. I always thought that was weird. Ages 2-4 must be for weirdness because her other daughter saw people and would point out things that weren’t there at that age too.
Yohualtica 1 year ago
And he had a secret Laboratory and some cool inventions, too!
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#12
"The man in the closet! He won't stop staring!"
Moved just last year, my 4 year old said she saw an old man walking around in our shared closet and would stare at us. Did some research and the man that lived here before us died in that closet.
Bogdan Chelariu 1 year ago
Time to move again! Don't even bother packing... No time to lose!!!
Tabitha 1 year ago
But only if he’s a malevolent spirit. If he’s just looking after the people living in his house, then I would have no objection to peacefully coexisting with him.
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David Wallis 1 year ago
You talk to the spirit. If the spirit doesn't want to leave, you work it out to live together.
Hobby Hopper 1 year ago
I'm very skeptical of the supernatural, but then all these stories from kids seeing spirits and remembering past lives does make you wonder. I had a friend that even as an adult, swore they could see the spirits of dead people. I mean, maybe it's just an overactive imagination or a waking dream? But, maybe not? I'm not ready to make any authoritative statements either way.
Jess Smith 1 year ago
There are around 400 million people who speak English natively. Let's say 1/10 of them have seen something "unexplainable", and 1/10 of them told someone. Of those 4 million, 1/1000 had it line up with something by pure chance. 4,000 of these stories, told in English, entirely false, by pure coincidence, just by some Googling and back-of-the-hand estimates. And that's not even counting fabrications...little kids aren't known for telling the truth.
EJN 1 year ago
Get someone capable of clearing spirits from a home or do a complete cleaning yourself. This means walls, floors, ceilings, doors, etc. Afterward, burn herbs or incense in your home and clear it of the leftover traces of that old man. I suggest using dried sage leaves and burn in each room. Then open up the windows and air out.
#13
My kid and my niece have such an uncanny connection they live in different countries. When my kiddo was 4/5 we went for pizza and this little random spot they had seen us drive past, whatever seemed cool. Kiddo hits me with the ‘me and niece always wanted to open up a pizza shop here when I was in a wheelchair and niece was my little girl…we lived across the street in that house.’ Okay what a cute little story they’re a kid whatever. Time passes and we are parked and see a man having a hard time getting his wheelchair out of his van bc the parking space wasn’t quite wide enough, ‘we should help him I remember how annoying that used to be for me and niece’ instantly took me back to our pizza afternoon. (Yes we helped the gentleman) we chat a bit about the previous life and kiddo has things to say that are repeated. Time passes again and we are visiting my niece they haven’t physically seen each other in months, but on video chat and through photos. My niece learning to talk now and get her words out clearly keeps calling my kid nana (mothers father) and she gets so excited whenever my kid gets up and walks. I tell my sil about what my kiddo’s told me and she tells me that my niece always wants to go up to elderly ppl she sees in wheelchairs trying to push them/help them with their mobility. My niece and my kiddo get ready for bed while we stay with them and they insist of sleeping together bc they missed each other bc my kiddo said ‘it’s been so many lives’
Not creepy per se but just always so interesting.
Jellybean the Jellyfish(they/them) 1 year ago (edited)
Can someone please explain this? My brain couldn't process this... thank you!
Alia Khan 1 year ago
OP’s daughter and her cousin have a connection that seems to be that they shared a past life. In the past life, the daughter was the cousin’s grandmother in a wheelchair, with the cousin as the young caretaker. Both tell stories about the past life that match up perfectly
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#14
One night tucking my kids in:
My then 4 year old: “Mummy, when you die I’m going to keep your bones.”.
My then 6 year old: “Ooh - we could make a wind chime!”.
The creepiest and also the sweetest thing my kids have ever said to me.
KnightOwl 1 year ago (edited)
My sister has a 6yr old daughter and 5yr old son, during a particularly hard day last week they decided to comfort her. They then reassured her they'll be fine when she dies! Apparently they thought she'd probably die soon and planned to just continue living in their flat and going to school. My sister has had some minor health issues recently, they knew she was ill but didn't know how ill so assumed she was probably going to die! If anything happened to my sister I'd get custody of her kids, they now know that.
#15
Woke up to my 1.5yo standing on the bed saying “daddy” repeatedly while looking at the door.
Daddy is on the run for almost unaliving me 😀 needless to say I didn’t sleep
𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚊_𝚛𝚊𝚖𝚒𝚛𝟹𝚣! 1 year ago
Daddy isn’t going to come back sweetie!!! Mommy had some problems!!!
#16
My mum told me a story about me years ago…..
When I was about 2 I was sitting in my high chair in the kitchen with my parents and grandparents and suddenly started speaking Welsh- I am Welsh, but I’ve never spoken it fluently, and we exclusively spoke English at home. I basically said that I was from x (a small market town about 20 miles from where we lived), that I used to work on a farm with my brothers and sisters and I didn’t have any shoes. Apparently I also said that I preferred ‘this house’.
I certainly have no memory of this other life but it freaked my parents and grandparents out at the time!
Jane Hower 1 year ago
Mu 2.5 yr old grandson said to his dad one day - "I remember when I was big and you were little". Believe in reincarnation!!! BELIEVE
#17
Not my child, but my nephew, (from a very Christian family) one day said “if we all go to heaven when we die, why don’t I k**l everyone, then we can all be in heaven “. He was 5 and meant it in the most positive way. He just wants to get everyone into heaven fast
Ace 1 year ago
He's spotted one of the most basic flaws about religions that believe in an afterlife.
Dudical!!! 1 year ago (edited)
Okay, so it seems that this is a major trip-up for people. The reason is because, tragically, not everyone will go to heaven when they die, so our job as Christians on earth is to help as many people make it as possible! For religions that believe everyone is going to heaven that is, indeed, one of the major flaws.
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MushroomHead22 1 year ago
and that's the problem. you live your life trying to get to this wonderful place that you can't get to unless you die. just enjoy the wonderful place you are currently alive on. you cannot predict what happens when you die; no one knows what happens. enjoy life while you can.
Toe Jam 1 year ago
Poor brainwashed kid, nothing but acceptable child abuse forcing religion on kids
Dudical!!! 1 year ago
Actually, this is a valid theological question with an answer! The reason is because, tragically, not everyone will go to heaven when they die, so our job as Christians on earth is to help as many people make it as possible!
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Dudical!!! 1 year ago (edited)
Apparently, the well-meaning and self-decieving lie that everyone will go to heaven, no matter what. The tragic truth is that not everyone will go to heaven when they die, so our job as Christians on earth is to help as many people make it as possible!
Load More Replies... Ralph Watkins 1 year ago
My one niece was about 2 & was in church. She yelled: "God is Dead". The priest stopped the mass. He had to ask how she figured that one. My grandma died & went to Heaven. God's in Heaven so He must be dead too. Yep, childhood logic.
#18
When my son was about 3, he told my friends pregnant wife that her baby was dead. A couple weeks later I was informed that she had a miscarriage.
Definitely a Human 1 year ago
He didn't. This is a coincidence, or a constructed memory. Or a lie
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Vicki Perizzolo 1 year ago
well, if dogs and cats can tell us that kind of information, why not a small child? We lose a lot of our instincts as we grow up. Sad story though
BoredPossum 1 year ago
Oh, come on, kids say strange stuff all the time. He probably just said that because he expected it to kick or sth. Sad coincidence, sure, but that's all it is.
#19
Does pointing and laughing at the empty corner of the room count? Might need to go burn some sage…
Where's_My_Adderall 1 year ago
NO! Not sage, unless you're part of a culture that uses sage. aside from that, sage is also endangered. try a cleansing incense instead, plus praying to your chosen deity.
Pursuing Peonies 1 year ago
Depends on the sage. Don't use the sage grown by the culture, but your garden variety works fine. So does other plants, as you mentioned.
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Teacher here. 3 yr old stopped playing to say, unprompted, “Humans are just meat you know.” Then returned to playing
#21
My son told a cop my husband was lying about his name. Tbf it only lasted a minute because then he immediately said “your name is dad!”
Averysleepypanda 1 year ago
I don't remember this, but when I was in preschool I told a police officer (who had come to talk to us about gun safety and stranger danger) that my dad had a bunch of and killed a ton of people, whom were all buried under the house. When my mom came to pick me up, she had a lot of explaining to do to the officer. I'm lucky my poor dad didn't end up in jail lol
LAWLAWLAW 1 year ago
Used to work in a mobile phone shop, guy and his 5ish yr old son came in with a phone I sold him the day before all angry and in a huff saying it stopped working and he wanted it replaced (he had refused to buy any insurance). The phone had no visible damage but we always ask have you dropped it got it wet etc, guy gets all offended and says of course not your just trying to get out of replacing it, at that point the son tugs on his sleeve and says "but daddy you dropped it in the toilet this morning" guy picks up phone and son and without a word walks out, nice one kiddo
Ralph Watkins 1 year ago
My sister got pulled over by a cop. Her 4-1/2 year old grand-daughter was having a temper tantrum in the backseat. She was in a booster seat but looked like a caged wildcat back then. The cop walks up to the car & my sister looks in the rearview mirror. The brat is now mouthing "Help Me" to the cop. When the cop did not immediately react to that & was nice to my sister, now my niece stuck her tongue out at he & was calling him names. She was an evil child. She is a wonderful adult now.
#22
I cut my foot on a piece of broken glass. My kid (about 5 at the time) said, "Don't clean it up! I can use your blood for painting!"
𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚊_𝚛𝚊𝚖𝚒𝚛𝟹𝚣! 1 year ago
Since they arent an adult yet, the kid will paint, “The Anguished Child.”
#23
My daughter is 3 and is working on performing her own nighttime routines. We asked her how she gets ready for bathtime and gave her her stuffed bunny to demonstrate on. She takes the bunny and begins explaining the steps of her routine, mimicking the actions on the doll.
“First you take off your pants.” * she wiggles Rabbit’s legs*
“Then you take off your shirt.” *she wiggles Rabbit’s arms*
“Then you take off your underwear.” *wiggles the legs again*
“Then you take off your hands.” *she pulls on Rabbit’s arm in a plucking motion*
“Then you take off your arms.” *Rabbit’s arms are wrenched immediately*
“Then you take off your legs, your hair, your tummy, your face!” *she gleefully laughs as she mimes ripping each part off of Rabbit*
“All done!” *she looks up at us with a smile. We are aghast.*
Realist 1 year ago
I don't know. Alot of little kids do silly things to get attention or make others laugh. Even things that seem outlandish.
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Pursuing Peonies 1 year ago
Now I'm concerned as to what happened in that kiddo's past life....
Jellybean the Jellyfish(they/them) 1 year ago
Maybe monitor her for the majority of her life...
#24
3 year old daughter whispered, "No one is coming to help you."
#25
Dad, I took an overdose. I'm not sorry.
We have been with them 24 hours/day ever since. We are exhausted and burnt out but on the weekend they dyed their hair and was kind to their brother, and I think (hope) that we have turned a corner
jjdubs W 1 year ago
I hope you also sought professional help (and yes, more of the story would be good). Please, all of you, take excellent care.
Kathy Williamson 1 year ago
What state do you live in, where professional mental health treatment is available in a crisis and long afterwards? Not in Maine where I live, I can tell you.
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Upstaged75 1 year ago
Their kid tried to commit suicide and they have been watching him/her non-stop ever since so they don't attempt it again.
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Dee 1 year ago
Yes, some folks use they/them pronouns. Not everyone feels like a she or a he.
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#26
One day she told me she spends her whole period week imagining cutting out her uterus. She described it in great detail.
Awesome At Being Autistic 1 year ago
Man I seriously wish someone had given me a hysterectomy before I started my periods. Years and years of agony.
Jackie Lulu 1 year ago
I was so happy when that thing was finally taken out.
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Upstaged75 1 year ago
I have imagined yanking mine out with my bare hands, so this is understandable!
BarkingSpider 1 year ago
I used to have terrible cramps and the best description I could give people was that it felt like something was trying to claw its way out. Got some weird looks.
MezzoPiano 1 year ago (edited)
I see no problem here. Also, when I had mono, I fantasized about cutting out my own tonsils. I was in college, so all I had was a table knife and chloraseptic spray, but I was still pretty sure it would hurt less than what I was experiencing right then. FTR, I did not cut out my own tonsils. They're still in there being annoying AF.
#27
My little friend went through a phase of telling “dark stories” when she was 3-4. She was also really Into playing games about taking her toys to the doctor. We were playing and she said “this toy is really scared of the doctor!“ and I said “why? Doctors are there to help us!” Or something like that. She said “he is scared because this is the bad nurse. She gives him medicine so he can’t move or scream and then cuts him open and takes his insides out.”
I was just like “yeah. That’s a good reason to be scared!”
We have no idea where she came up with that stuff. She’s 6 now and all her stories are about fairies and princesses. I kind of miss her dark stories- they were more creative, even though some kept me up at night!”
The voice of reason 1 year ago
One day her novels will be flying off the bookshelves. Sorry Mr. King. 😞
Rafael 1 year ago
Are you wishing her to be a successful writer or a poltergeist? Because the description work for both, you know...
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Vicki Perizzolo 1 year ago
seems like Twilight Zone or Night Stalker had something like that... scared the cr*p out of me..horrifying
#28
My daughter at nursery (Aged 3) came home and said “Mammy there was a lady on the roof eating cats “..
Poor bugger had a raging temperature.
Gracie Jay 1 year ago
Lol!! When I was around 5yo, my oldest sister had a raging temperature and when they were trying to get her to the car to take her to the hospital she kept pointing and trying to get everyone to see “the dancing Indians on the playhouse” messed with my poor 5yo head. Turns out after looking at our paint job on the play house it really did resemble people dancing around in headdresses. So she wasn’t totally wrong:)
Jeanette Thompson 1 year ago
I have very vague memories of this but, when I was a kid, I had a raging fever and thought there were bugs crawling all over the bed. The sheets had flowers arranged neatly in rows, but I saw them as bugs.
egg 1 year ago
I don’t understand why people downvote this. It’s just a question. We shouldn’t downvote people because they are curious.
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My three year old: *Poop is like a fart cake.*
Cyber Returns 1 year ago
My favourite poop comments from my nephews and nieces: "I can throw my fart!" "My fart is soooooooo heavy" "Look! My fart is brown!" "My fart went thud!" "I made a rocket out of my fart and I didn't need my hands!" and "Why is it called cutting the cheese when it looks like a chocolate bar?"
#30
At 5 years old, "Mommy, Danny put his hand under my skirt today." Still don't know how I didn't wreck the car (we were on our way home).
Louis Wright 1 year ago
Please, listen to her. As impossible as it may seem, she may be being molested. As a long time foster parent, many times I learned of girls being molested by fathers, grandfathers and others starting as early as 3 years old, even earlier. My daughter's best friend was being molested by her father at 5 years old and it conyinued until she was 16 and told her mom. We were all close friends for several years and never new it was going on. Our daughter spent the night at their house many times.. I beg you to talk to her more about it, even if you need to get a children's counselor to do it. Your husbnd need not know about it, unless it's true.
Peppy 1 year ago
She said Danny, not daddy, still not a good thing for a child to be saying though.
Load More Replies... BoredPossum 1 year ago
Danny is probably another kid, but make sure you find out who it is and what happened. Sure, you may insult someone but that's a small price to pay for your kids safety.
Willow Juniper 1 year ago
Need more info on this Danny? Older relative, other adult, ghost/imaginary or just an inquisitive age-peer
Joy Myers 1 year ago
I think that’s the key here…real or imaginary (like has she ever met a Danny)
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#32
My daughter was 4 when she said "you know I died in a jail when someone hit my head then I came to you"
#33
I was at a silent auction and there was a really creepy 100 year old doll that I bid on as a joke. Turns out nobody else wanted it, so I won. My wife and I are talking the whole time about how creepy this doll was.
As I stood in line to pay for it, my daughter asked to hold the doll, so I gave it to her. A few older ladies starting coming up to her and saying things like “That doll is older than I am.” and “You’re so lucky to have such a pretty doll.” I guess because my daughter had been listening to us talking, she would respond with things like “Did you hear that? She’s laughing at you.” I tried so hard not to laugh at the look on their faces, but the last one got me. My daughter put her ear down to the dolls face and with a very serious look said to a lady “I think the doll just said the ‘F-word’.”
#34
My daughter was performing at one of her school events when she told me she saw my grandmother. She was dead and we missed her funeral that day.
Jellybean the Jellyfish(they/them) 1 year ago
That's so nice of the grandma to watch her grandchild's performance.
#35
My two year old never stops talking and has said some really weird and freaky things lately. The creepiest one was when we were putting her to bed and she said goodnight to the "closet man" and when we asked her who she meant she told us it was the little man that lived in the small access hatch she has in the back of her closet. Scary thing is she has never seen that hatch open and i'm pretty sure she has never seen it before because there has been a big storage tote in front of it since before she was born! You bet I checked the hatch the next morning when she was downstairs and found nothing but dust and spiderwebs in there so that made me a bit happier!
Gracie Jay 1 year ago
I have 7 siblings and 20 nieces and nephews. There are tons of “who’s that? And what are they doing?” At around ages 2-4. What is up with that? We weren’t raised believing in ghosts or anything supernatural so it can’t be something they were all exposed to making their imaginations run wild. So it’s definitely something. I still don’t think it’s ghosts but it’s definitely something.
#36
We found him in the unfinished basement with the lights off in the middle of the night. Standing in the corner whispering. And he told the therapist, the devil comes to my window at night
Jack Smith 1 year ago
i wonder if he sleepwalked and\or had sleep paralysis? it kind of sounds like that might be the case
#37
My daughter asked why we can't cure world hunger by eating the dead people...
Natty Tempest 1 year ago
Because the families want a funeral, not a doggy-bag... Also, mass-for-mass, the numbers don't add up because we don't have enough dead folks for meals. (pretty sure my search history has me on some kind of watch-list...)
#38
My toddler (2.5yo) recently shared a ghost sighting with us. She has done it before but usually not so confidently. We try very hard not to show her how interested we are because we don't want her to start making things up (more than she already is, hopefully speaking, lol)
Anyway, she stopped mid-play with my husband and I the other day and completely had a mood shift. We had been all making playdough ice cream and laughing and talking. She stopped, looked to her right, and set down her ice cream to wave. She said, "Hi ghost!" Pleasantly and just smiled. Was suddenly much more quiet and observant, more calm, not as lost in the playing. Similar to how we'd be if someone passed by us in public or interrupted for a brief moment. You're still in a good mood, but not going to rudely keep playing instead of saying hello.... if that makes sense.
It was an open spot of floor above our basement stairs. She was looking slightly up, so it'd have been about the height of an older kid, or taller and standing on the stairs.
We both slowed what we were doing and made eye contact and said, "There's a ghost?"
And she says, "Yes! Right there!" All smiles.
We nonchalantly went, "Oh, there you are! Hey ghost!"
She didn't even incorporate it into her game or make any more of a deal about it. She just started up her ice cream making again and let it be.
I think the scary part comes from not knowing what's going on in her little mind, not even the ghost part. Because clearly, it's quite peaceful. 🤷♀️
#39
My first born daughter, when she was around 5 or 6 years old. She use to take her dolls and place pennies on their eyes so "Sam" can play with them.....don't know a Sam.... I hid the pennies...nope, big ol'nope.
Cyber Returns 1 year ago
Pennies on the eyes were an old practice to make sure the person had actually died because if they woke up the pennies would fall off
Awesome At Being Autistic 1 year ago
No, coins were put on the eyes of a deceased person to keep their eyelids closed. Also so as to have payment to pay Charon, or the local equivalent.
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I was driving my son to daycare. It was just the two of us as I already dropped my other son off at school. My then three-year old said to me, "Mommy, I love you more than my first mommy." I said, "Your first mommy?" He said, "Yes, my first mommy in California" (we live in the US, but about as far from California as you can get). I said, "You lived in California?" He said, "Yes, up until Jason stabbed me and then I came to you!" I said, "Who is Jason?" and then he just started talking about something else. I tried to get more info from him on it, but he never talked about it again. So weird and I can't imagine where he would have gotten the fodder for it to make it up in his imagination. The only Jason we knew was someone he saw only occasionally and my son liked him. There was no fear or bad feelings associated with him. The only media he saw at that point was various kids' TV.
Still kind of freaks me out almost 10 years later!
#41
"Daddy, there's a caveman in your kitchen!" It was a sticker she put on the floor
#42
I think babies and toddlers are so close to the other side, whatever that is or whatever that even means… While I don’t have kids, I trust my mom regarding my sister. Two unusual things happened when she was around two and a half ~~months~~ years old. She spoke early and at an advanced level very young. One day my sister tells my mom that she misses the place before this one. My mom doesn’t understand and she asks what she means. “I was with the light. Before here.” My sister offered helpfully. Not really understanding still, my mom asks if she means before like yesterday or last week? Her bed? My sister shakes her head and says, “before everything. The light! It’s very comfortable there.” Mom was weirded out by it, but kids say weird stuff, so she chalked it up to that. Until Christmas. My sister is now in her early forties. The internet was not a thing when we were babies in the early eighties. She was not in daycare as my mom stayed home with us for a few years. I say this to preface the lack of exposure for what’s coming. The day before Christmas Eve when my sister was two years ten months old, she tells my mom, “I really want a camel for Christmas!” My mom is kinda shaken. She’s never exposed her to camels. She has no idea where my sister got the word or even if she really understood what a camel was. Buuut, just in case, my mom took her s****y sewing skills into them laundry room where her old sewing machine is. She cuts out a dromedary camel using two pieces of brown fabric and sews them together with some cotton balls. She gives the crappy nearly 2D camel a couple button eyes and a mouth made of uneven black stitching. Christmas morning comes, and my sister opens up this stupid looking homemade camel. But without missing a beat she giggles and exclaims, “oh good! It’s Omar, my camel!” If my parents didn’t expose her to camels, they absolutely didn’t expose her to Middle Eastern names. Yet, that’s what my sister decided her camel would be called. Now the last odd factor. My sister and I are not biologically related. We’re both adopted. I’m a Hispanic guy of Mexican ancestry (though really, my genetics trace back to old imperial Spain). But my sister? Yeah, my sister is Syrian and East Indian… Later, I asked my mom if I had said anything weird. Maybe I asked for churros or really wanted a chihuahua or something. But no… my mom shook her head and told me I was essentially silent as a baby. I didn’t really cry and didn’t really fuss (I was in foster care for a while before the adoption, and apparently my first foster home wasn’t great). And though I spoke fairly early as well, I didn’t say much. But I understood plenty. Yet I didn’t make any creepy requests or have any otherworldly insights like my sister. And so my journey of disappointing my parents began!
Happy Homemaker 1 year ago
My daughter used to talk about her time with Jesus before she was born. She used to also talk about her times with her brother and sister in Heaven before she was born as well. I had two miscarriages before her. A psychiatrist told her that it wasn’t healthy to talk about that so she stopped telling people stuff like that. I actually thought it was sweet. She also used to talk about the ghost outside her bedroom window. She called him “The Bad Man”. If her curtains fell, she’d freak out and beg you to fix it screaming that “The Bad Man” could see her. I will say she was happy when we moved from there.
Clown fish 1 year ago (edited)
If you see that psychiatrist you tell them to f#ck right off. You have the right to talk about your dead babies. It's good to talk to heal. Oh I miss read it as they told you not to talk about it
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#43
My daughter told me there was a fire in the kitchen. It was a lit candle 🤦
#44
My four year old told me a few weeks ago that she “remembers her Popo from a long time ago. He was a really smart guy.” She was conceived about a week after my husbands father passed. A couple of nights ago she was sleeping in my bed while my husband was working out of town and she sat up from a dead sleep and said “Popo is here” laid down and went right to back to sleep. We never call him by that name. My husband says my Dad or I call him by his actual name. The name she said was given by his other grandchildren that we very rarely see.
#45
Not my child, but a friends child was sitting in bed with their mother and said the red eyed people were coming down from the roof, they also hid in the wardrobe, in the evening they would come into the house from the forest, she said she would watch them walk out of the forest into the house.
#46
My eldest had an imaginary friend he claimed to be the ghost of a child that died in our house. He would sit in his room having conversations with him. It was f*****g creepy. His imaginary friend was quickly forgotten a couple of weeks after he started preschool and we all breathed a sigh of relief.
Bored Birgit 1 year ago
I had two imaginary friends as a toddler, they were younger versions of myself, "little baby" and "big baby". Mom and I had conversations with them, and we spoke as them with disguised voices. It was fun for some months.
Gracie Jay 1 year ago (edited)
My daughter had one:) she knew it was imaginary (at least in the beginning) it became so incorporated into her daily life it became hard for me to tell if she truly knew Walker wasn’t really there. Her dad was getting seriously creeped and I worried he’d make her feel like a weirdo so I got her a cat and named the cat Walker so when she mentioned the imaginary friend people would assume she was talking about the cat:) shortly after that the friend slowly disappeared:)
Jack Smith 1 year ago
i've never understood the whole "imaginary friends" thing. i never really did that. i pretended to, because that was always just, like, a *thing* kids did, and I thought I was weird for not having one. but, like, do kids really sit down and talk to imaginary friends and play with them? weird.
ScootyPuffJr 1 year ago
When you're alone a lot as a kid, it seems perfectly reasonable.
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#47
My 4 year old son asked me if i prefer death or labour very loudly in public Took me a sec to realise that those are the names of two songs that i’d been playing quite frequently in the house lol
#48
He drew something and asked me what it was. As clues, he told me it was at the stairs (we were in the family area on the second floor of our house at the time, facing said stairs), but sometimes it was at the bedroom door (also on said floor), and it didnt have any legs. The answer is ghost.
#49
At 3 am in the morning, I was a single mum and lived alone with my 3-year old at the time: “Mum, there’s someone over there at our window”.
#50
Daddy who is that behind you? * we were alone in a room at the children’s hospital -*
#51
I learned to play that chess game when I lived in the castle with my other mommy and daddy.
#52
We were staying on an island and waiting for the last barge back to mainland . It was just after dark and we drove through a small old cemetery to kill time. It was empty and no one around, but my 1.5 year old daughter was waving hello and giggling like she was seeing someone.
#53
I ask the kid, “whatcha drawing?” Kid: “oh, a land of infinite darkness where darkness reigns.” Cue me going through the whole video collection thinking I must have missed something.
Isabella Austin-Lewis 1 year ago
Nah Amercia, anywhere in Amercia, could've been scared from a lession on how to avoid school shootings, I go to online school so I'm safe from that.
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#54
My 5 year old said he sees an old man on the stairs, i asked him to show me where exactly and he keeps pointing to the ceiling above the stairs (as if the man he refers to would be hanging..). Very odd.
Tabitha 1 year ago
This would prompt me to look into the history of the house, including whether anyone died there or not. My thing with ghosts is I want to know who they were when they were alive, and why they’re haunting. Of course, my main thing with ghosts is concrete evidence they exist. I suspect there’s a lot we still don’t know about unexplainable phenomena, so I can’t discount the possibility they do exist. I just want some real proof.
#55
Neighbor kid walked up to me one day, just said "I learned how to start a fire today" and walked off.
the_avenging_knight (her/she) 1 year ago
I'd move. Living next to a future arsonist isn't what you signed up for.
1 year ago
~aaaaaaaarssssssonnnnnnnn~ seriously though do the kid's parents know about this? Because that seems concerning.
#56
So I have a 16 year old young man and one time he woke me up dead of my sleep at 2am and said (they are coming) and gave me that odd freaking stair! Turns out he was fully asleep!
#57
My then 2 year old: You'll be scared. There's a ghost coming for you. Now run.
#58
My two year old, who was just beginning to understand the world, was standing next to me in the kitchen and talking/giggling to himself "horses don't have eyes, horses don't need eyes" followed by laughter.
Jack Smith 1 year ago
oh, come on, girl. don't give the horses more problems. they already look for any excuse to fall over and die (from what I've heard from other people. no idea if that's actually true)
1 year ago
hoooooooooooorses doooooooon't need eeeeeeeeeeeeeyes- why am I now imagining this as some sort of demented childhood song.
#59
My two and a half year old at the doctor this past Friday when they were going to take some blood from me “Mommy, I want your blood!”
#60
My younger sister was about two or three and ended up waking up in the middle of the night screaming and crying. She wouldn't stop saying that something was in the corner. She was inconsolable for at least an hour. I assume it was a night terror but it lasted much longer than night terrors I've seen from others (my own kid today suffered from them when younger).
What do you think ?
Dan St John 1 year ago
The University of Virginia has been doing re-incarnation studies since the 70's. They have over 2,500 cases studies and have proven more than 75% to be accurate. They only deal with children, because around 7-9 years old, you lose your childhood memories as you transition to being an adult. Many of these stories sound like their studies, only these people took the time to investigate them instead of brushing them off as children's fantasies. Several other colleges have also been studying reincarnation with similar results. If you are curious, you should read them, they are real eye openers.
Averysleepypanda 1 year ago
I don't remember this, but when I was in preschool I told a police officer (who had come to talk to us about gun safety and stranger danger) that my dad had a bunch of and killed a ton of people, whom were all buried under the house. When my mom came to pick me up, she had a lot of explaining to do to the officer. I'm lucky my poor dad didn't end up in jail lol
JayWantsACat 1 year ago
Not that scary but I swear I had out of body experiences as a kid. I remember multiple times dreaming that I walked to the top of the stairs outside of my bedroom, jumped, got that falling feeling but gently floated down to the bottom. I've had tons of other dream of falling but only ever got that falling feeling whenever I had this specific dream.
Happy Homemaker 1 year ago
I remember some of my dreams when I was younger. I had been assaulted and stalked by a neighbor, and I remember many of my dreams were of a giant King Kong like gorilla searching for me and no matter where I hid, it would find me and I’d take off running. It would tear off the roof of a house and off I go, uproot a tree, and off I go, you get the idea. But my absolute favorite dream was when I dreamt about driving from California to Japan on a roller coaster like highway. It was insanely high with this crazy dip and just insanely long across the ocean. That one I always enjoyed dreaming because I loved that funny stomach feeling you get when you get to the dip.
Load More Replies... Natty Tempest 1 year ago
I had an imaginary friend who I described really well... And was a dead ringer for my Unkle who passed before I was even thought of. Pretty sure kids are more open to these kinds of things.
waarimelone 1 year ago
Not creepy but pretty weird for everyone involved...as a kid I had somatic hallucinations whenever I was ill. Just an hour or more of me crying and begging my parents to move 'the boxes' because they were 'crushing my feet'. Then metal chains holding me down. And, more recently (during a bout of the 'flu), a thick coat of dried mud encasing my hands, almost fusing with my skin. I was fully conscious that it wasn't real and that my hands were clean, but as is the case with your brain playing tricks on you, it felt too real. I spent a good week after that one being triggered by the sensation of paintbrushes clotted with dry paint against my hands...which was a problem, as I was the one in charge of washing the art supplies at school.
Rodney McKay 1 year ago
Shall we do a poll on what *very few* among these are actually true rather than just made up by the poster?
Deedee 1 year ago
My son when he was about 4 years old had to go with his dad 4 weekend visits. One time when he came back we were having dinner and he said Mom, why is that lady always in my room when I come home? So he described her as wearing all white in kind of a pink light and had bags. I asked him if he was scared of her and he said nope. He just wanted to know why she was there so I suggested he ask her next time. Never said anything more after that time. Personally I believe she was his spirit guardian, angel whatever. His dad was a real jerk and inundated my son with stories about me and still does so now when I think of this story I hope it was an angel who had my son's back.
Dan St John 1 year ago
The University of Virginia has been doing re-incarnation studies since the 70's. They have over 2,500 cases studies and have proven more than 75% to be accurate. They only deal with children, because around 7-9 years old, you lose your childhood memories as you transition to being an adult. Many of these stories sound like their studies, only these people took the time to investigate them instead of brushing them off as children's fantasies. Several other colleges have also been studying reincarnation with similar results. If you are curious, you should read them, they are real eye openers.
Averysleepypanda 1 year ago
I don't remember this, but when I was in preschool I told a police officer (who had come to talk to us about gun safety and stranger danger) that my dad had a bunch of and killed a ton of people, whom were all buried under the house. When my mom came to pick me up, she had a lot of explaining to do to the officer. I'm lucky my poor dad didn't end up in jail lol
JayWantsACat 1 year ago
Not that scary but I swear I had out of body experiences as a kid. I remember multiple times dreaming that I walked to the top of the stairs outside of my bedroom, jumped, got that falling feeling but gently floated down to the bottom. I've had tons of other dream of falling but only ever got that falling feeling whenever I had this specific dream.
Happy Homemaker 1 year ago
I remember some of my dreams when I was younger. I had been assaulted and stalked by a neighbor, and I remember many of my dreams were of a giant King Kong like gorilla searching for me and no matter where I hid, it would find me and I’d take off running. It would tear off the roof of a house and off I go, uproot a tree, and off I go, you get the idea. But my absolute favorite dream was when I dreamt about driving from California to Japan on a roller coaster like highway. It was insanely high with this crazy dip and just insanely long across the ocean. That one I always enjoyed dreaming because I loved that funny stomach feeling you get when you get to the dip.
Load More Replies... Natty Tempest 1 year ago
I had an imaginary friend who I described really well... And was a dead ringer for my Unkle who passed before I was even thought of. Pretty sure kids are more open to these kinds of things.
waarimelone 1 year ago
Not creepy but pretty weird for everyone involved...as a kid I had somatic hallucinations whenever I was ill. Just an hour or more of me crying and begging my parents to move 'the boxes' because they were 'crushing my feet'. Then metal chains holding me down. And, more recently (during a bout of the 'flu), a thick coat of dried mud encasing my hands, almost fusing with my skin. I was fully conscious that it wasn't real and that my hands were clean, but as is the case with your brain playing tricks on you, it felt too real. I spent a good week after that one being triggered by the sensation of paintbrushes clotted with dry paint against my hands...which was a problem, as I was the one in charge of washing the art supplies at school.
Rodney McKay 1 year ago
Shall we do a poll on what *very few* among these are actually true rather than just made up by the poster?
Deedee 1 year ago
My son when he was about 4 years old had to go with his dad 4 weekend visits. One time when he came back we were having dinner and he said Mom, why is that lady always in my room when I come home? So he described her as wearing all white in kind of a pink light and had bags. I asked him if he was scared of her and he said nope. He just wanted to know why she was there so I suggested he ask her next time. Never said anything more after that time. Personally I believe she was his spirit guardian, angel whatever. His dad was a real jerk and inundated my son with stories about me and still does so now when I think of this story I hope it was an angel who had my son's back.
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