09-30-2009, 05:13 PM
hello again - i'm a bit freaked out again and could do with advice / opinions / thoughts etc 
alexander's chat about his other family has completely faded, but now and again he says things that are odd
at my grandmother's funeral, as we were leaving churchyard, a few months ago he was having a conversation with a 'beautiful lady' in fact he was argueing with the beautiful lady telling her that she did NOT love him
he seems to have picked up on what my mum was thinking at times - specifically they were walking to a partiuclar house in an area of town he'd never been to before, as they turned the corner of that road he said 'there it is' and pointed at the house my mum was looking for
little things, like knowing what a pogo stick is when he saw a replica of an old fashioned one in a shop and trying to jump on it - don't think he would have come across these anywhere else, i can't think of any programme he would have watched that would have had them on
anyway, a few days ago he was swimming with my mum, arrived at the pool, noticed some different shaped floats and swimming aids in the water and said 'that one's shapped like a ouija board!', my mum said no it's not, and alexander reiteratted that it was shaped like an ouija board.
i didn't know what that shape is, not interested, neither are my parents - they had to google it to see what a board looked like, there is no way he could have been exposed to that word, let alone the traditional shape of one.
he is so matter of fact about it, he says these odd things in the most ordinary way, but i the ouija reference has made me feel very uncomfortable. why would a small child - he turned 3 last week - be referencing such things? what's the point of having these memories - i don't understand. do i just ignore them? i don't want to dismiss the things he says but i also don't want to encourage it because as ali rightly pointed out, he has to live in the now - which incidentally he does. he's the most sociable child i've ever encountered.
it got me thinking - his language development was ridiculously early, i'm friends with around a group of 25 mums whose children were all born within 2 months of each other, alexander being one of the youngest - and he was constructing sentences before most of the other kids were starting to talk - maybe he was remembering language skills rather than learning them.
sorry, i'm rambling and thinking out loud here - is he simply a very open child who is picking up on a variety of things, not necessarily past life memories?
alexander's chat about his other family has completely faded, but now and again he says things that are odd
at my grandmother's funeral, as we were leaving churchyard, a few months ago he was having a conversation with a 'beautiful lady' in fact he was argueing with the beautiful lady telling her that she did NOT love him
he seems to have picked up on what my mum was thinking at times - specifically they were walking to a partiuclar house in an area of town he'd never been to before, as they turned the corner of that road he said 'there it is' and pointed at the house my mum was looking for
little things, like knowing what a pogo stick is when he saw a replica of an old fashioned one in a shop and trying to jump on it - don't think he would have come across these anywhere else, i can't think of any programme he would have watched that would have had them on
anyway, a few days ago he was swimming with my mum, arrived at the pool, noticed some different shaped floats and swimming aids in the water and said 'that one's shapped like a ouija board!', my mum said no it's not, and alexander reiteratted that it was shaped like an ouija board.
i didn't know what that shape is, not interested, neither are my parents - they had to google it to see what a board looked like, there is no way he could have been exposed to that word, let alone the traditional shape of one.
he is so matter of fact about it, he says these odd things in the most ordinary way, but i the ouija reference has made me feel very uncomfortable. why would a small child - he turned 3 last week - be referencing such things? what's the point of having these memories - i don't understand. do i just ignore them? i don't want to dismiss the things he says but i also don't want to encourage it because as ali rightly pointed out, he has to live in the now - which incidentally he does. he's the most sociable child i've ever encountered.
it got me thinking - his language development was ridiculously early, i'm friends with around a group of 25 mums whose children were all born within 2 months of each other, alexander being one of the youngest - and he was constructing sentences before most of the other kids were starting to talk - maybe he was remembering language skills rather than learning them.
sorry, i'm rambling and thinking out loud here - is he simply a very open child who is picking up on a variety of things, not necessarily past life memories?