05-09-2009, 06:31 PM
my two and a half year old son has started saying some things that sound very much like past life memories and to be honest i'm struggling with how best to respond to these statements
i'm a single parent and his father has never played a part in my son's life, so there is no 'daddy' in his life
he's started talking about his 'daddy and mum and baby sister', when i ask him who i am he replies 'mummy' with a big grin so clearly mummy is different to mum
when he's heard a car toot its horn outside our house, a couple of times he's said 'that's my daddy and mum, bye bye mummy' and started to get his coat
he's also said some strange things like 'aliya's on the roof, i can't find her, i can't find aliya' - he's said this a few times and it has no basis in his life or in any tv or books he would have encountered
today he was frightened by a spider scurrying towards him, he shouted out for his 'daddy and mum'
this is what has particularly got to me today - the fact that when he was scared he called out for people who don't exist in his life now
i really, genuinely don't know how to respond. i can remember my brother talking about a past life when he was younger, but his memories were those of an adult and had a dreamlike quality. my son seems to be remembering another life as a child which is just as real to him, at times seemingly preferable to him, than his life now.
any thoughts or advice would be most welcome
i'm a single parent and his father has never played a part in my son's life, so there is no 'daddy' in his life
he's started talking about his 'daddy and mum and baby sister', when i ask him who i am he replies 'mummy' with a big grin so clearly mummy is different to mum
when he's heard a car toot its horn outside our house, a couple of times he's said 'that's my daddy and mum, bye bye mummy' and started to get his coat
he's also said some strange things like 'aliya's on the roof, i can't find her, i can't find aliya' - he's said this a few times and it has no basis in his life or in any tv or books he would have encountered
today he was frightened by a spider scurrying towards him, he shouted out for his 'daddy and mum'
this is what has particularly got to me today - the fact that when he was scared he called out for people who don't exist in his life now
i really, genuinely don't know how to respond. i can remember my brother talking about a past life when he was younger, but his memories were those of an adult and had a dreamlike quality. my son seems to be remembering another life as a child which is just as real to him, at times seemingly preferable to him, than his life now.
any thoughts or advice would be most welcome