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Posted: 23 June 2011 at 7:29am |
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Is it normal for toddlers to have imaginary friends?
DD is 2.5 years and has just started talking to 2 different people all day long. She will tell them off etc. She has names for them.
I hear things like.....
"No ..... its Taylah's toy, please dont touch"
"are you coming ......., we are going in the car"
"Come play in Taylahs room with me"
just heaps of things like that.
After listening & watching her its actually like she sees these 'friends' and TBH it completely freaks me out.
DP thinks she has gone mental lol. But im still hoping its pretty normal.
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KiwiL
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Posted: 23 June 2011 at 9:32am |
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I can't help because I have not experienced it with my son, but I do know my little sister had an imaginary friend who seemed as real as any other, except we couldn't see her. It freaked my mum too. Eventually she just stopped 'coming'.
I am quite fascinated by this topic, so am interested in seeing replies!
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Posted: 23 June 2011 at 12:47pm |
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My son doesn't do this but he has a little friend who has a friend that seems as real to her as anyone else. I wouldn't worry about it. It is a good imagination.
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Posted: 23 June 2011 at 12:59pm |
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i stood on Edens imaginary bear friend this morning! i told her to tell the bear to move so she did and then she "watched" the bear walk to the other side of the room. I was watching her eyes follow the path of the "bear".
it shows great imagination if you ask me to invent a friend to play with.
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Posted: 23 June 2011 at 1:22pm |
yes totally normal.
Ella doesn't have a specific imaginary friend but she talks to herself a lot when she plays makes up names etc for them. At times has a whole imaginary family. Last xmas she told us that she couldn't go on the family holiday with us because she had to go camping with her other family
Definitely helps with their imaginations and I find it really interesting just to listen her talk (you can learn a lot about what they thinking/feeling by listening to them talk to their imaginery friends)
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Posted: 23 June 2011 at 1:37pm |
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It just shows that your daughter has developed a wonderful imagination, a great developmental stage. Definately nothing to worry about
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Posted: 24 June 2011 at 12:52pm |
They say kids are more intune with ahh spirits and stuff.. 
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Posted: 24 June 2011 at 1:12pm |
Oh yes totally normal as the others have said. My DD is 3 1/2 and has had imaginary friends for ages, I kinda think its cute, she's always there mumbling away to them and herself. Keeps her occupied too which is great 
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Posted: 24 June 2011 at 9:52pm |
No imaginary friends here buy my 3.5 yo girls spent 3 months convinced they were 'Hairy MaClary' and 'White Doggie'. I was 'Black Doggie' and DH was 'Bottomely Potts' and they would refuse to answer to anything else
Thankfully that phased out but still weekly they will rename the whole family. This week I'm a giraffe! 
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Posted: 24 June 2011 at 10:16pm |
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LOL tishy mine like being the chipmunks or ben 10 or spiderman...
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Posted: 25 June 2011 at 8:15pm |
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From a different perspective... I had imaginary friends! Two Chinese kids, a boy and a girl and they would come over when we had pizza. They eventually left. I only vaguely remember this, but my folks remember it. I'm pretty normal!
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Posted: 25 June 2011 at 8:22pm |
My DD2 has a couple of imaginary friends - Peter Maka and Wiki (dunno where those names came from?)... it cracks me up listening to her talking to them or blaming them for naughty stuff... it's completely normal
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Posted: 26 June 2011 at 1:34pm |
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Yep the animals think is hilarious, I am apparently a dog at the moment and am forever being offered bones! "They are pretend to be bones mum" lol
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Posted: 27 June 2011 at 7:01am |
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I had two lol they were brother and sister jessica and dylan I remember them clear as anything. I knew they were imaginary but they were still my friends who came to play. I was a little old tho.
Anyway one day on their way here they had a bus crash (not sure why???) and never came again lol
Definatley think it makes for a great imagination, I was a fantastic story writer in school!
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Posted: 27 June 2011 at 7:14am |
Hmmmmm well its still happening. Although its mainly her telling them off. Or telling them not to do stuff. She hasnt blamed them for anything yet so i guess that might come next 
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Posted: 27 June 2011 at 7:56pm |
I keep expecting it to happen, Fin has long in depth talks with certain teddies, I can hear him in his room doing it, and he then wants me to talk to them and if the teddy asks him to do something then he will do it, even though quite clearly its me saying it.
He is forever telling the teddy off putting it on the naughty step and then telling me what he has done and that he's waiting for said teddy to say sorry. I can very much see him having imaginary friends.
Our friends wee boy has one, has had for a while, can come up with the most amazing stories, less so now, he is about 4 now but for a while it was very funny.
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Posted: 13 July 2011 at 8:02am |
Clodagh has an imaginary friends called 'Meeks'. He doesn't turn up in person, they only speak on the phone (her toy one )lol 
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