[gardenmom]

Earlier today, I was reading the 'Rosie O' Donnell' thread, while dd sat on my lap. Suddenly she says, out loud "Rosie says no" 3 or 4 times in a row. I'm positive that I didn't say anything about it or read it out loud to her, and I'm pretty sure my nearly 3yo can't read.

Isn't that weird?

I know we're pretty attached, and I often know what she needs before she asks, etc, but I chalk that up to instinct and experience. This comment was completely out of context, and it leaves me wondering if dd can read my mind. Do your kids do these types of things?

 

[girlndocs]

Are you just mind-hiccuping on some other time you mentioned the issue, maybe after looking at something with pics of rosie?

... kids absorb tiny contextual details with such amazing recall and so often our minds fool us by selectively recalling data ...

 

[gardenmom]

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Originally Posted by girlndocs Are you just mind-hiccuping on some other time you mentioned the issue, maybe after looking at something with pics of rosie? ... kids absorb tiny contextual details with such amazing recall and so often our minds fool us by selectively recalling data ...

I know how easily dd picks stuff up, but I just don't think it's possible on this one.

I can't think of any time I've mentioned/looked at/shown dd Rosie for any reason, and dh wouldn't either (he can't stand her and would switch her off immediately if he saw her). Not only that, but I don't know anyone else named Rosie, and we don't have any toys, dolls, songs, or books with that name either...it was really strange.

 

[Vermillion]

I don’t find it the least bit weird. My son is 3 and has had several psychic experiences and he often reads my thoughts. Yes that may sound a bit “woo woo” but it is totally true! Little kids are amazing! They are very in tune with many things that most adults don't get, you just have to pay attention!

 

[stafl]

DD1 often says exactly what I'm thinking, just out of the blue. I think it's pretty cool!

 

[FreeThinkinMama]

just a quick question...did you forget your meds today?

 

[gardenmom]

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Originally Posted by DestinysMama just a quick question...did you forget your meds today?

:LOL

 

[gardenmom]

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Originally Posted by stafl DD1 often says exactly what I'm thinking, just out of the blue. I think it's pretty cool!

Yes, it was pretty cool. Glad to know I'm not in need of meds.

 

[mama ganoush]

dd and i once had the same dream.

oh, and she sees ghosts.

 

[AngelBee]

Cute!

 

[stirringleaf]

happens in my house too. also 3yo ( ds)

i really think the thoughts jst go into the air and he picks them up as if they are his own. he certainly does not think they are my thoughts---or at least he doesnt show it. he just says something out of context like that. and when i ask him about it he kinds goes ...uh.....umm....nevermind...

cuz he doesnt know what he is talking about himself! :LOL

 

[China white]

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Originally Posted by DestinysMama just a quick question...did you forget your meds today?

~ *please* tell me you two have a private running joke, and that this is not an incredibly rude, insensitive comment........

 

[gardenmom]

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Originally Posted by mama ganoush dd and i once had the same dream. oh, and she sees ghosts.

Now that you bring that up, I'm pretty sure that dd saw a ghost once, too. She was standing at the edge of our neighbors' yard, looking across their back yard, and started talking, as if to someone. I walked over, and she pointed to a patch of lawn about 50 feet away, and started trying to tell me about 'the farmer' who was there. This was before she could articulate her speech well so I didn't get a lot of details, but it was very spooky--she definitely was trying to communicate with someone.

I wonder if there are ways to cultivate these senses/abilities...anybody know about that?

 

[stafl]

There's a really good book about fostering your child's intuition called The Wise Child by Sonia Choquette (I may have misspelled her name). I highly recommend it!

 

[L.J.]

My oldest is very psychic and things like that happen all the time.

If I buy him a gift and talk about it with my mom, all while he's out of the house, he'll come back and within a few days he'll ask me when he's getting whatever gift it is I bought him.

There have been many times when I think something and he says it out loud.

I encourage both of my kids to use their intuition & psychic abilities.

 

[Tuesday]

Gardenmom, I guess it could be a coincidence but I'm more apt to believe it's because, as you say, you're very attached. DS is 24 months and not speaking much - I'm not sure if we've had any incidents like the one you've described. BUT, my husband and I have had many MANY incidents like this (including both having visions from a deceased friend at the exact same time even though we were in separate cities). When I was younger I had a best friend and once (only once) heard her thoughts inside my head (very bizarre). So, I'm very much a believer that people are very sensitive to other people's energies and thoughts. I'm sure your daughter just picked up on something floating through your mind.

 

[moma justice]

my dd reads my mind everyday...
it is amazing powerful and yet so normal! i mean she sleeps beside my head, i grew her in my body (all the while, speaking to her with words out loud and with words from my heart to her's) i still do that....when i think she will nto choose to listen to me b/c of 2 year old behavior stuff, i sometimes use that heart vioce to her heart and it works wonders...i have cultivated that deep psychic communication with her since BEFORE she was concieved...since before i even met dh!

and we ahd a BAD experience with a ghost my dd saw, i almost hate to bring it up b/c i don't want it in my mind to heavy when i go to sleep with her in a few....

lets just say that my dd had a terrifying encounter with a sad/angry spirit...who i think may be my grandfather that lasted for a week...she told us he lived in our bed
she only met him once when she was a newborn adn then he died...i never talked about him (no pictures) b/c he was an awful abusive asshole who i pretty much hated.

anyway she told us he was
sad and mad adn needed his mother (his mother was worse than he was, so i hear) and was not going away...that he needed to leave to go somewhere fun....like a party ? (heaven? i wondered) and that he was waiting to ride the train (he used to be a railroad conducter)
this went on everytime we went to sleep for nap or bedtime for more than a week...i was so shaken by it!
and she went from being sad about him to being scared and back to sad....(he had that effect on people!)
she even told me details about him (things she never knew)
anyway i finaly asked her who it was and she said: old pawpaw
(what i used to call him)
any way i asked where we was: she pointed and i looked right over there and told him to go away, i said i was sorry he is feeling lost, sad, and mad but there was nothing we could do for him and that he had to go...and i opened up the window and shoved him out....and as i did i could a hear a train going by (we lived near the tracks, so this was not unusual just intense timing!)

and to make it worse...she totally looks like him (as do i)
and my dad actually had a "visit" from him after he died too...another story

anyway

i am not a ghost person
i do not know what there is out there... i believe it when i see it...

but what happend to us made me believe.....
crazy story
i know! and i did not have my meds today/....(hahhaha)

 

[raleigh_mom]

I did this with my mom a lot when I was little. As I got older, I didn't like it because I really felt hypersensitive to other people's emotions. I learned to block it out, and it hasn't happened very much for several years now. It has happened several times with my 4yo, but then her personality is a lot like mine.

I don't like believing in ghosts or ESP, or general para-normal stuff, and usually I deny that I do, but I guess I have had enough experiences with it that deep down I do believe.