Has Your Toddler/ Child Ever Talked To or With Himself Constantly?

That brings back so many fine memories...I still remember the first dog we killed together.

Ask her if her imaginary friend ever told her to hurt anyone.

Have her draw her friend for you.

If you are really concerned, and feel it might be more than just innocent muttering, pm me.

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People's faces are genuinely scary when angry. Especially to a small child.

With that said, your daughter could be psychically sensitive. Poltergeist activity does usually revolve around specific people. The age of 5 seemingly has special significance as well.

As long as she is not scared, feels like she can tell you, I wouldn't make it creepy for her. Hope that make sense.

My oldest two kids are very close in age... When they were little their toys would play by themselves, and the whole time we lived there, they would be playing in a room, talking to someone. I asked who they were talking to, and every time, it was "the man in black". Always creeped me out.

Another time, in that same house, they were on the couch and I had my back to them...they were singing happy birthday to " grandma", and at some point they were acting mad that "she" wouldn't blow out the candles. They kept on, and out of curiosity I asked where she was. She'd moved from between them to the couch closer to where I was... There was a lot of creepy stuff in that house.

Try singing to her the behavior you prefer. Would you rather have a reclusive poet or a singer?

Sounds like your child has anger issues and is being her own therapist to release her emotions building up inside. A person talking to themselves are very highly, intelligent. I do it myself like I'm talking to somebody else on the phone. I'm so sensitive I get upset easily and the emotions building up inside of me. She might be embarrassed you caught her talking to herself. I wouldn't worry unless something told her to do something bad like stealing a cookie before dinner breaking house rules and she does it. Children with anger issues feel alone and so they might act up at the house giving up they can't do nothing right. Their conscience eats them up alive and tells them to rebel to release the inner buildup emotions that are negative inside of her. So she creates a imaginary friend to be her companion.

Sounds like your child has anger issues and is being her own therapist to release her emotions building up inside. A person talking to themselves are very highly, intelligent. I do it myself like I'm talking to somebody else on the phone. I'm so sensitive I get upset easily and the emotions building up inside of me. She might be embarrassed you caught her talking to herself. I wouldn't worry unless something told her to do something bad like stealing a cookie before dinner breaking house rules and she does it. Children with anger issues feel alone and so they might act up at the house giving up they can't do nothing right. Their conscience eats them up alive and tells them to rebel to release the inner buildup emotions that are negative inside of her. So she creates a imaginary friend to be her companion.

This too. Intelligent children are far more likely to have imaginary friends or have conversations with themselves. At this age it's a good time to ease drop and see what they're thinking about. A little older and they'll be more in their head - right around the same time they start reading independently and in their head instead of reading out loud.

As the title is stated, has your child ever talked to themselves like they were having an actual A-B conversation with an invisible entity?

While I do know children do this while playing with toys as to bring characterization to their toys, my child does this too which I do find to be normal. However twice have the wife and I caught our 5 year old in her room talking/chatting it as if she is having a conversation with an "invisible person".

I know for a fact the first time I caught her doing this was whenafter I scolded her for bad behavior and due to her being upset to being disciplined she ran upstairs in her room and put the covers over her head. I went upstairs to check on her and I can hear her mumbling/conversing with herself. I was trying to make out the words she was expressing but since she was under her blankets, I could hardly piece the words together. What I did catch though was her saying to self "I don't want to" clearly and then the words following after were not as clear but I swear my mind processed "hurt them" as in "I don't want to hurt them". This may be part of my initial paranoia of her chatting with herself that my mind would convey the distorted/unclear words as such as "horror movies" would suggest.

The 2nd time she was caught chatting by herself in her room was by my wife..although the wife couldn't catch the words as she was in the hallway she initially thought that I was in the room with our daughter, but actually I was downstairs on the PC checking work emails. So when the wife approached her room, our daughter immediately ran to her bad as if she was hiding something(??) or maybe she was playing with her toys which might be the characterization chatter..and since it was bedtime anyway maybe our 5 year old didn't want to get into trouble. So this instance we can't really tell what she was doing.

We asked our daughter about who she was chatting with or if she has any friend, she immediately clams up and doesn't want to respond or answer our inquiry. We ask her if she was just talking to herself and she just nods..I don't know if that is our daughter's way of trying to get us off her back into asking about it in the first place.

My wife is much, much more spooked by this so I haven't told her about the 1st time and what I supposedly heard.


I don't know what to make of it at this point..I might have to install a camera.

Edit: Changed Wording

Thanks, I didn't initially see it that way, guess my mind is always inclined towards doom.

OP, I took your daughter's words much differently as well.

When a person is punished, it hurts their feelings.

I took it as a question to herself as to why do they want to hurt me, when I don't want to hurt them...?

Yeah im gonna have to weasel that inquiry in for her in the future.. If I catch it, right now she's 'normal'. Thank you again!

That brings back so many fine memories...I still remember the first dog we killed together.

OP, you are not strong enough to have children.