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Originally Posted by the2amigos
 And I guess one thing that bothers me about *others* thinking I'm lying to my son - what about all the other imaginary things that he comes up with? He is constantly making animals and monsters out of blankets and cutting them out of paper to play with. Should I be telling him constantly that they aren't real? He literally cries every time "sleeping beauty" gets slammed in the back door. (Sleeping beauty is his friend that tags along wherever he goes - totally imaginary). So I should be having big explainations that sleeping beauty isn't real?!?
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We just clarify. We use language like "you're pretending your blanket is a monster" and stuff like that. My DD has imaginary friends. We do tell her she's pretending that she has a baby lion in her pocket.
I would NEVER tell her those things were real. That seems so strange to me. I'll pretend right along with her. We spend alot of time pretending we're princesses and queens and explorers. That doesn't mean we are those things.
I don't understand why it's so hard to tell children the truth. It's not like it wrecks their fun. I can't stand it when kids want me to "be" something I'm not. Maybe I'm too literal. But it drives me crazy.
It drives my DD crazy too. We were at a friends house a couple days ago and we got the kids dressed to play outside in the snow. DD has mitts. Her friend has gloves. Her friend wanted mitts like DD. Her mother said "Ok, you have mitts on". But the kid didn't and it really bothered DD. I finally had to take DD outside and tell her that the other family was pretending that the gloves were mitts.
