Has Your Child Ever Had An Imaginary Friend?

This sounds like my daughter too, she even had a little brother to play with sometimes. I think it was not only an imagination as some energy form sent to keep her company til she grew to be with others and to grow on up around them. Kids often see things that we do not. Not a big deal when all goes well and does not take over the family. We had nice talks all about her playmate, what she looked like and talked about and such. Didn't discourage it and it never got out of hand. A nice time in her little life and a bunch of memories for me.

Yeap my kids have imaginary friends. When our son was about two he started talking about two friends that he had, BeeMee, who is a girl and KaaKa, who is a boy. He starting talking about them all the time, and telling us that Kaaka was telling him to do things. Well after talking like this for a while we were starting to get a little worried. He keep on using that as an excuse as to why he was doing things. We were wondering if he really did see them and hear them. Until one day when we asked him about them and he just looked at us like we where foolish and said, they are just pretend. And now that our son is 4, our little girl who is now 2 has started to play with Beemee and Kaaka too.

They never had imaginary firends, and they pretty much grew together and played together, never having a moment alone nor the need to invent a friend. Have a nice day!

My girlfriends daughter had one she was real young she called her misty. My girlfriend would here her talking to misty when she was in her bedroom. She had misty as her imaginary friend for a couple of years. And now misty is gone I guess she had to go home. But if you ask her today about misty she says she doesnt remember.

:) That's a cute story. When my youngest daughter was three, she developed an imaginary friend. I don't remember why, but at the time I thought it meant she was lacking something...socialization or something. I told her he wasn't real :( and that she needed to stop. I feel bad know that I did this, although I think she continued to play with him. I made more time to spend with her, feeling that she clearly was missing out on something. She laughs about it now that she's twelve, but I'm pretty sure what I did was wrong. When my youngest daughter was two, she had an imaginary friend named "Daisy". She use to play with her all the time. By this time I had realized it was just something children sometimes do so I never made her get rid of Daisy as I did with my eldest.

Maybe these friends are not imaginary. It seems to be quite common and by the response to your post you have proved it is. A normal response are ones you have posted, things like not being sociable, or lacking someone to play with. And because the mother or adult can't see what the child is seeing, they say it is imaginary. Children, because they are more open and receptive often have paranormal experiences. Why wouldn't their imaginary friend be an angel for instance? I take my hat off to the parents who don't scold their children for having these experiences; And don't say they are silly and 'you are making it up, it's not real'. As long as the child is not distressed and is not harmed in any way, "imaginary" friends could be heaven sent!

My oldest child (daughter) had an imaginary friend called Mars. He came around when I was pregnant with my second child. Mars had a girlfriend named Illusa. :) When my second daughter was old enough to talk she told me she also played with these two characters. As my children grew up, they came around less. My children had these friends for 4 years. The only thing I find unusual is that both my girls had the same two imaginary friends. Makes me wonder if Mars and Illusa were truly imaginary.

Both of my kids had imaginary friends. My oldest son had some cats for whom we had to provide a chair at the table. One time my sister came to visit and she sat on that chair. My son yelled at her that she was crushing the cats. My sister thought this was a bunch of baloney and we should talk him out of it. We never did and eventually the cats disappeared. My younger son had a female imaginary playmate. Her name was Susan A. Why, I have no idea. He used to have long conversations with her as I was walking him to Kindergarten. Eventually she disappeared also. Both of my kids turned out to be bright, creative, caring individuals who graduated from university. The imaginary friends did no damage to them. So, don't worry.

I don't have kids but my best friend's little 6 year old did for awhile he called it his imaganry friend Nate and his name is Nathan.

It coulkd very well be that children have better psychic abilities than adults. If we as adults can see and hear ghosts why can not children? It may very well be that many of the "imaginary friends" that children have really exists.

i dont remember them having that kind of friend..

Hi, My daughter started 'seeing' her invisible friends when she was aged just 2 years old. Their names were Kayleigh & Peleigh (?) and when questioned their ages differed from day to day! They lasted a few years and when quizzing her now about them (at 17) she remembers them and can descibe them to me still!

i never had any imaginary friends when i was a kid. i don't have a good imagination. i kind of hope my daughter gets one soon, lol. she needs a plamate so i can get a break.

My daughter had/has (she only pulls him out on very rare occasions at this point) a friend she calls "Happy Pirate". She talked to him, made little things for him, and he was very small, so she was able to take him wherever. She basically grew out of it now that her brother is old enough to play with and now that she has more friends her age. I think this is a normal thing for kids to do, isn't it?

Imaginary friends are very real to children, and who is to say that they really don't see something there? Children are a lot more sensitive to their own spiritual nature than we are. That Micheal no longer is there anymore is telling. It is obvious that she no longer needed his help. Children see things we adults choose not to.

Damn it!!! I never had an imaginary friend.....all of my friends are real!!! strange for me

I have a little brother who thinks that humans never grows old but instead he believed that humans starts their lives in old age and then turned into a baby that's why he tell stories of his life when he was older. I know this is irrelevant but it's how my little brother view life as a child.

Some children who are unhappy look for imaginary friend to say the things they want. Somehow they feel some rejection from real friends.

my daughter use to have them. when she was like 3 or 4 he had the teletubbies has hers. you could hear her while she was bathing just talkin away to them. were ever she went they seemed to follow lol. i thought it was adorable too

Im 21 and i still have an imaginary friend...and he is the best...His name is Bob. He makes fun of me for having an imaginary friend some times....but thats ok....i still think he is the best....We have alot of fun together....we play ball together...but he's not that good at it...for some reason i through the ball to him and he misses it every time and then i have to go and get the ball myself...i think Bob is lazy....but dont tell him i told you that....he might get mad at me....and that wont be good....cause then i wont have anyone to help me with my home work!....and Bob is really smart!.......yea....im weird!...believe it..lol....i dont really have an imaginary friend...but it seems like alot of fun...lol.....but i would be kinda freaked out if my child was to start talking to there self...haha...creepy!