My 4-year Granddaughter Has a Husband

[Franklin]

My 4-year old granddaughter likes to talk about her husband and 4 children. Her husband has a strange looking car that has flowers painted on it. She knows the names of her children and their ages. My son and daughter-in-law get amused when she talks about this imaginary family of hers. Also my wife and I think it is sort of funny. However, when I was reading a book a couple of weeks back by Sylvia Browne, the famous psychic, she also talks about this very experience. She said that children remember former lives and talk about them. Their parents though just put it down to childhood imagination. As the child gets older, she also puts it down to imagination and stops thinking about it. I asked my son about what he thought. He said that sometimes his daughter will say things like, "before I was born, or in my other life." He said they just get a kick out of it and put it down to imagination. My granddaughter talks to my wife quite a bit about her husband and kids. My wife says that she really has a wonderful imagination or maybe she is remembering something from a previous life since she has plenty of details. She has now turned 5 so over Christmas I ask her if she was still married? She said in a serious voice, "no, my husband got stabbed and died." A month went by and I asked her again about her husband. She said she has a new husband and the kids really like him. So we asked her where he lives and she said he lives close to her father, but doesn't now where that is. She is always really serious when talking about her husbands. So it is probably imagination, but sometimes I wonder. Could she really be remembering a previous life that she has lived? Perhaps you have noticed your children or grandchildren talking about something that could be remembering events from a previous life that you just put down to childish imagination? Maybe they did have past lives, who knows?

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A Gnostic Christian in search of truth

 

[Kathy]

Hi Franklin, I would highly reccomend that you read both of Carol's books "Children's Past Lives" and "Return From Heaven". Both are fantastic, and I suspect that they will really give you an eye opening experience to what's going on with your grand-daughter. From what I've learned in my own life, I believe that she is truly having a past life memory, but read and decide for yourself.

Take Care, -Kathy.

 

[Galadriel]

she is always really serious when talking about her husbands.

Actually this indicates that it is probably not just her imagination, but an actual past life memory surfacing. I too recommend the two books, Children's Past Life Memories and Return from Heaven Carol talks about the signs that a memory is real vs. the signs that it is imagination. and Seriousness is one of the signs that it is a real memory.

From the back of Return to Heaven
Signs of a true past-life memory...
Matter-of-Fact Tone
When young children speak of past lives, there tone becomes serious, matter-of-fact, and does not resemble the sing-songy, lilting style of fantasy babble. Adults sometimes notice that a child's countenance becomes calm, almost adultlike, as they speak of their other life. (above)

Consistency of Detail
Unlike the stories of a child who is fantasizing, the basic details and facts of the stories remain consistent over time, though the child may fill in more details as his language improves.(shown in your story)

Knowledge Beyond Experience
Children speak of events or facts from the past that they had no way of learning normally, or show an uncanny adult understanding of emotions beyond the experience of a very young child.
(Her husband has a strange looking car that has flowers painted on it. This sounds like something out of the 60's to me.)

Memory of Death
To the parent's amazement, a child will matter-of-factly tell them he remembers being shot, or dying in a car accident, or in a war, sometimes in explicit and clinically graphic detail.

Behaviour and Phobias
Inexplicable behaviours and fears that bewilder the parents suddenly make perfect sense in the context of the past life--especially the mode of death.

The Age Window.
Children speak sponaneously of their past-lif memories for only a short time, usually between the ages of 2 & 7; these episodes of lucidity are brief and appear to be random.
(My 4-year old granddaughter she is right in the middle of the age window.)

She doesn't need to show all of the signs for the memory to be valid, but most often there will be several of them together. If you can get a copy of the first of Carol's books (Children's Past Life Memories), I recommend that you start with that, and Return From Heaven should be on the shelves within the next week or 10 days.
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Galadriel aka Megan.

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[Franklin]

I read Carol's book a couple of months ago and am looking forward to her new book. Sometimes, my wife says that her granddaughter reminds her of a teenager since she has an attitude problem. She is really a serious little girl. She has never talked about her death though and acts like she is still married. Perhaps she met death so quickly that she didn't even realize it happened.

 

[Galadriel]

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0060195711/carolbowmanatchiA

Carol's new book is on sale at Amazon.com right now. You can follow the link there.(Although the cover is not the same, the one pictured at Amazon is not the one that went to print.)

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Galadriel aka Megan.

There is no such thing as too many books. Too few bookcases can become a problem, however.


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[Skool12]

When i was little, I would talk about "When I was a teenager" And I would tell my mother about when "I knew Mamma. that was before now. ya know. You were really skinny with red hair. I had long blonde hair. We used to drink alot of stuff." According to my mother, this was quite accurate. at the time I used to talk about this , i had never seen any pictures of my mother from when she was a teenager. Acouple of years ago, My mother showed me a picture of her with a friend from highschool with long blonde hair. My mother looked exactly as I had described her. I have and in fact still do have memories of Being "the girl with long blonde hair."

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*****TTYL*****

 

[nmissi]

What you describe is very like my own experience. (Im twenty seven now, so this was roughly twenty five years ago.)As a small child, I unnerved my family members by talking about my husband and my children, and my funeral.(strange detail there- I was quite offended to have been buried shoeless, and it was years before my mother learned that sometimes corpses ARE buried without shoes. Spooked her good, it did.)

Mine is a strict christian family, so they had no reference point for the things I told them- regarded it as creepy and odd. I quit talking about it by about four or five, and remember none of it now. But it still comes up at family get togethers- the way any southern family will get in a group and embarass you with your childhood! Apparently I talked long and Loudly to any adult who would listen to me.

 

[Howard Winters]

With regard to children who remember things, and have immaginary friends, my second sister, whom the family always jokingly felt had returned in another body after she died from pneumonia in 1933 or so, as whe was growing up, always played with her invisible playmate.

This child, that she called Doris, was with her every time she went out to play at whatever, or played dolls and such. Doris would walk with her down to our grand mothers' house, about three blocks away, (the world was safe back in the thirties) and walk back with her.

As she grew older, a couple moved into the duplex dad rented on the east side of our house, and his name was Walter, and hers was Mary Ruth.

In time, Mary Ruth became pregnant, and as the time passed as the baby grew within her, Doris would often tell my sister, Isabelle, of what was going on with the family that would be her parents. Mother and dad, and family members just smiled and considered it just idle chatter from a five or six year old.

Then, as Mary Ruth reached term, Doris came to Isabelle on day and said she had to go away and get ready to be born as a little girl who would be called Doris. Isabelle accepted this stoically, and told of what Doris had said.

When Mary Ruth delivered, they immediately named the little girl Doris. This stunned my mother and dad, but it had no effect on Isabelle. She had known it would be so, for a long long time.

This is an absolutely true story.
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