Invisible/imaginary friends

[Gemini]

My youngest grandson, 3 years and almost 5 months old has an imaginary friend.

His name is PapPap. PapPap can drive and has a baby brother. He often takes his baby brother out with him or has him sitting on his knee.
His car is Brown and red. PapPap has other friends DD tells me, but GS hasn't mentioned them to me.

None of my DDs or three older GC had imaginary friends so this is new and fascinating to me!

[Daisy]

Gem, I hadn't heard of imaginary friends either, until Suzie and Froggy Frog moved in with us when DS1 was about the same age as your GS3. They lived with us for a while, and then quietly disappeared. It was about the time he had started at our local playgroup so I wondered if they were toys, or his version of people's names. We never found out.

Young children's imaginations are fascinating, aren't they. I hope PapPap has a happy Christmas with his baby brother and his brown and red car. xx

[Oma]

Oh GS1 had a imaginary friend from the time he could talk,

His name was Nenque, GS said he had black hair that looked like cola, and he could see through him.

He then went on to tell us Nenque had died when he was 4 his mummy had told him to stay away from a pool but he hadn't and had drowned,

Nenque had a brother called Baby and a sister called Nefhatiti,
He played with GS till he was about 5 ,
Then GS came downstairs one day and said he was gone as GS didn't need him anymore and he was going to another boy.
GS never mentioned him again .

I forgot there was one called eye also, not sure if it was a boy or a girl.😁

It freaked my son in law out big time but we all treated it as if it was true.

My children didn't have imaginary friends neither did GS2

When I was a child I insisted my real parents were called Mr&Mrs Wilson,
We lived in a house on a hill,
Mr Wilson was a Dr and we had two telephone one in his surgery was Red and one in the house was black,
Apparently I was only about 3 so wouldn't know anything about telephones as no one had one in those days apart from Drs and shop keepers,

[Daisy]

Oma, it's a fascinating subject, isn't it. Your GS1 clearly had an amazing imagination - and still has with his music. Your imagination was pretty active, as well.

[Oma]

My mother said I insisted for a very long time that's who my real parents were ,
None of my siblings had imaginary friends or family 😁

GSs imaginary friend and his family had very Egyptian names and you had to pronounce Nenque a certain way or GS would get cross with you 😁
Where would a hardly talking toddler get names like that?

It. Still freaks SIL out 🤣

[Gemini]

Intriguing Oma!
As Shakespeare said - 'There are more things in heaven and earth (Horatio) than are dreamt of in your philosophy'

As Daisy says, imaginative children will be the ones with imaginary friends!
Little E plays imaginative games all day and even washing his hands in the little sink in our downstairs loo is him bathing an invisible teddy, letting him splash about, rinsing the bubbles off etc

[Plantaholic]

Fascinating. My son had an imaginary friend called Gibby. He seemed to disappear when he went to nursery school.

[Daisy]

GSs imaginary friend and his family had very Egyptian names and you had to pronounce Nenque a certain way or GS would get cross with you 😁
Where would a hardly talking toddler get names like that?

It. Still freaks SIL out 🤣

I was wondering where or how your GS heard such unusual names.

[Oma]

I know Daisy,
It's not just your everyday Tom Dick or Harry is it,

One day GS was playing in his bedroom, SIL was in the bathroom and GS shouted daddy Nenque is playing with my cars,

SIL locked himself in the bathroom and shouted for my DD ,
DD said if it's a ghost locking the door won't keep them out 🤣🤣🤣

[Daisy]

Oma, that's so funny. Brave Daddy.