Kids can say the creepiest things...........

[LongTomH]

Salon online has an article: These Parents Share The Most Dark And Chilling Thing Their Child Has Ever Said To Them. Some of these are almost enough to make you believe in ghosts or reincarnation.

My then 3-year-old daughter walked downstairs in the morning and said, "Look what I can do!" and she crossed her eyes. I asked her how she learned to do that and she said, "The boy taught me at night."

Me: "What boy?"

Her: "The boy with the glasses.. he did this!" And she held her finger up and zoomed it to her nose and crossed her eyes.

She said he laughed and laughed.

Not too scary, right? Only.... that's how my brother taught me to cross my eyes when I was 5 years old. He died when I was 7.

When my son was small, I was talking to him about growing potatoes. I described how you bank up the earth around them as they grow, and he said, "I used to do that when I was an old man."

I was with my sister, her husband, and their two-year-old daughter. We were talking about loved ones who had recently passed. My brother-in-law went and grabbed a picture of his mother, who had died in a car crash when he was six, to show me. When my niece saw the picture though, she started laughing. We asked her what was so funny and she looked at us and said. "That's my special friend who sings to me". I still shiver a bit just thinking about it.

My 4-year-old daughter (she is 17 now) once sat up from a nap, looked at me, and said in a perfect Irish accent, "It's colder in here than a hot cup of worth." We are not Irish. I have no idea what it means, but that's pretty heavy for a 4-year-old.

My son always says odd things. Usually they're funny but this one threw me for a loop. He is 8. I was telling him how much I love him and thanks for being in my life. He said, "I didn't choose this life. I couldn't control how it began. But I can control how it ends."

[Binkie The Clown]

1. One of my granddaughters at age 4 said...

"Before I was me, I was a dragon. But not the nice friendly kind. I was the kind that ate people."

[milestogo]

2. A friend's 5 year old son asked her

"Mom, when will it be the end of all the days?"

[NJCher]

3. fwiw

I don't think those things are creepy, chilling or dark. I think they are probably quite natural. Children, as they get older, move away from the awareness of their previous incarnations.


Cher