| My 4 year old son has imaginary friends...
Posted: 10/26/2009 5:24:26 PM | Watch the movie "Drop Dead Fred". It's a great movie.
Do some online research. I just Googled "Are imaginary friends healthy?" and got a plethora of results. Having an imaginary friend is healthy and shows a creative side in a young child. | |
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| My 4 year old son has imaginary friends...
Posted: 10/26/2009 6:19:57 PM | Yup, it's 'normal', whatever that means in a four-year old's world.
My son had three 'friends': Jobby, Delby, and Alby. They were nice enough guys, but they didn't clean up after themselves very well...
I remember having a wonderful time with an entire family I made up as a kid, and my grandaughter, almost-four, has 'boyfriends' and 'babies'...some have names, others do not.
Enjoy this part of your child's life--take time to write down his stories of imaginary friends--it'll make great 'remember when' memories. | |
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| My 4 year old son has imaginary friends...
Posted: 10/26/2009 9:13:10 PM | Apparently this is normal behaviour.....and totally acceptable.
it is part of socialization..be it with an imaginery friend....and it should not be frowned upon or seen as a bad thing.
this coming from ME....who was freaked out and never liked my child to refer to her imaginery friend Kiki.
she needed Kiki... she was an only child at the time and Kiki kept her company.
as for the delay in pre-school...well I might reconsider that...as children do need to spend time away from parents even for a few hours and learn how to socialize with new people and to take instruction from caregivers....as they would have to later on as they entered school.
interaction with new people gives a child new experiences and stimulates their minds.
just my two cents on the topic.
I have 3 children... I kept them all way too close to me when they were young....they needed to be out an about with others....and the imaginery friends...well it was all good...don't we all need 'the team' on our side some days?... our best friend to listen to us... to discuss matters with us? | |
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| My 4 year old son has imaginary friends...
Posted: 10/26/2009 11:20:32 PM |
Our current President has imaginary friends too...
In his own party you mean?
I saw your posting in another thread and, although my politics tend to lean on the opposite side to yours, I thought some of the points you made were very valid, in my country we'd call the Democrats you described 'chardonnay socialists', giving lip-service only to the plight of their fellow man and only interested in appearing concerned. | |
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| My 4 year old son has imaginary friends...
Posted: 10/27/2009 7:51:55 PM |
Our current President has imaginary friends too...
You had me there for a moment.
Damn Yanks.....never know when they are serious or being facetious. | |
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| My 4 year old son has imaginary friends...
Posted: 11/6/2009 2:44:11 AM | i'm thinking of having one at this age. that way i could stop with the coffee dates and get right down to being a "couple". 
yup, was told my mom had a son before me who died in childbirth. needless to say i resurrected him. he lived in a chest by my bed, had his own chair at the kitchen table and food was put on his plate. only when he turned around, often the leprechuans would steel that food from right out under his nose. well, my dad had an active imagination as well. | |
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| My 4 year old son has imaginary friends...
Posted: 11/6/2009 12:48:02 PM |
My 4 year old son has imaginary friends...Is this healthy? Is it normal?
I'm not sure if its healthy but it is completely normal. A lot of adults have an imaginary friend called 'God' or 'Jesus'.... I know its weird but its true.  | |
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| My 4 year old son has imaginary friends...
Posted: 11/6/2009 5:43:13 PM | My grandson had imaginary friends til just before he went to school and he is fine now. He will graduate this year.
It actually never bothered any of us... | |
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| My 4 year old son has imaginary friends...
Posted: 11/7/2009 10:43:52 PM | "Just as long as you're sure they are imaginary friends he's talking to, and not dead people"
Paul Bearer and Leatherface are my imaginary friends    | |
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| My 4 year old son has imaginary friends...
Posted: 11/8/2009 6:29:34 PM | Eight and under is the age of innocence and kids of this age group are naturally intuitive and creative. I see no harm in having an imaginary friend. Your boy will soon go to school and he will interact with other kids and exposed to new things to learn.
My baby is an only child and when she was about your son’s age she had imaginary friends too. She would have tea parties and play games with them. I often found myself roll my eyes in me head at her and giggling to myself.
I did encourage her to draw, paint and write stories at this age knowing of her natural ability. She is a brilliant writer, and excel in painting and drawings too. | |
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| My 4 year old son has imaginary friends...
Posted: 11/8/2009 6:41:01 PM | He sounds like a kid who's both cute and smart.
Childhood development and "normal" milestones, etc., have been well studied and well documented for a very long time by some very smart people.
Giving some of that a read, could be useful to you in your parenting.
Useful as ammunition in arguments with his mother, probably not so much. | |
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| My 4 year old son has imaginary friends...
Posted: 11/8/2009 6:50:48 PM |
On the surface this is all jus harmless fun, but because I dont get to see my kids everyday I wonder if this is symptomatic of some kind of void in his life. I worry that he isnt getting enough social interaction with kids his own age and he's developed an active imagination because of it.
Absolutely NOT!!!! It is both very normal, and very healthy!
LOL! seriously....he sounds totally delightful; and from you description I could almost hear him saying it! LOL! You really should have a videocam handy at all times (or a tape recorder) to capture those moments!!! Ohhh, and good job on encouraging the play! Kids can come up with some of the WILDEST stories out of their little imaginations! You just can't buy entertainment like a 4 yr old! | |
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