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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.

I’m still not convinced it’s anything other than my daughters imagination.  But I will say, reading the thread has me fascinated.  I can’t say I believe in spirits or another paranormal dimension.  DH was raised very anti-theists and I was raised very Catholic.  It took me a very long time to let go of those beliefs, and sometimes they creep back.  I think people want to make sense of the unexplained, the odd...  I feel like if I were to burn sage I would be accepting a reality I don’t believe in...

That being said, at this point I’d love for my daughter to quit the talk about it.  We now barely acknowledge her when she mentions him (usually as soon as she gets up, and before bed). We don’t want our reaction to encourage it.  I feel like most three-year-olds would have dropped it by now.  She’s very insistent.

This morning she told me he crawled under her bed, she knew he was there but couldn’t cry or he’d go and “bite the baby” instead.  I have a 4 month old as well, who sleeps across the hall.  This made me teary as DD is not a fan of her baby sister.  She either openly ignored her, complains about her or at times, is mean to her.  The idea that she was ok with this entity being her room so it didn’t hurt her sister made me emotional.

I am starting to wonder if she’s experiencing sleep paralysis.  As an infant she’d wake up screaming a few times, and be hard to calm down (this was when we were in our old house).

I talked to my mother about it, and she is team “spirit”.  She mentioned she hasn’t explained tetanus to her, but maybe her older brother did.

I know DS isn’t trying to scare her, because DS is a massive scaredy cat.  He can’t handle a storyline with the tiniest bit of upheave.  He’s ultra sensitive to emotions and fear, and if DD starts talking about the Rusty Man he runs away because terrifies him.  Although the almost never mentions him when she’s not in bed I realized.  It’s when I’m getting her up or putting her down for bed.  She mentions it to our nanny during nap time.

I am fearful, but not of ghosts.  Sometimes I do wonder if she has a mild onset of schizophrenia.  She has exhibited some other behaviors, somewhat mild.

Maybe a ghost would be better.[/quote]

OP, all I'd say is don't just block it out but ask about it calmly with specific questions. If your child is going through it, ignoring it won't help them be comforted. I am catholic (born and raised) and don't believe whole heartedly in the catholicism either, but believe in some sort of non-physical form (call it spirits or whatever). I know atheists who believe in this stuff. As I said, religion has NOTHING to do with spirituality. People confuse/conflate the two all the time. There are spiritual people who don't believe the first thing about organized religion and there are religious people who believe this stuff is nonsense.

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OP -- re the schizophrenia, what are you thinking? My older brother heard voices as a child and did indeed end up as a full-blown schizophrenic as an adult. My mother is so regretful that she didn't take the voices more seriously when he was young, and taken him to a child psychologist or something. As a mother I have panic attacks when my son talk about seeing monsters, it is hard for me to know what is normal. [/quote]

I'm the PP -- I want to add that I don't think schizophrenic symptoms means that she is *not* really hearing/seeing a spirit. I actually think my brother saw and heard many voices that were from the spirit world, not just in his imagination, and in other cultures schizophrenics are shaman. [/quote]

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