Imaginary friend...?

Do not worry, Godmother. Usually children, who are the only child of the parents, always have an imaginary friend. I should know, I was the only son of my parents, and I not only had an imaginary friend, I also had a imaginary family, with two brothers, and two sisters. A pet is not going to help. The poor girl needs a human relationship. Usually the parents are a little bit distant from the child, and this is one of the reasons for it. This is not going to hurt the girl, and if she gets a brother or sister, all the imaginary things will disappear.

Hi I honestly dont think a pet would help change things although she might be delighted with one. My daughter had an imaginary friend which we can all look back on now and laugh and smile at but at the time it was awful. We even had to set a place for "it" at dinner time. Anything done wrong then "Adie" as she called her friend had done it as well. Lonely? no she had a little brother. It did become worrying when her brother started talking about Adie as well though. Oddly though Adie disappeared from our lives as quickly as she/he arrived into them. Years later I asked my two eldest if they remembered Adie and they both did would you believe with affection! My youngest daughter did not have an imaginary friend. So I would suggest going along with it for a while. It does no harm and it doesnt last long.

It's very common among young children. I think it might even be a good thing to the extent that it encourages the child's creative thinking. Having a pet can be a great experience for a child, but it might not necessarily get rid of the imaginary friend...I think it's really much more about the child's expanding mind than it is about loneliness. As adults, we can imagine different scenarios and understand different perspectives with no problem...we can think like other people at will. Children on the other hand have to learn empathy and graduate away from looking at life from a selfish point of view. Imaginary friends are sometimes part of that growing up experience for young kids.

Hello Godmother I guess often when children have imaginary friends it could be because they are lonely, not because they are the only child of the family but also it could be they dont have that many friends in the kindergarden/school. But yet they want to be noticed and accepted in the group so the invent these imaginary friends to try show they are also accepted in their own group, the imaginary one... Towards the classmates these may often be told of a friend at home in the street and so forth, but towards the family at home the friends are imaginary or just classmates the parents never get to meet, because they do not exist. If your neighbours are willing to buy her a pet for christmas this could be a good solution to soften her up a bit and get accepted in a different way, by theory she would form a group with the pet instead of the imaginary friend, and get interaction and a compeltly different and better level. I guess in this case the optimal pet might be a dog. These are all theories, please keep in mind and I hope the situation with the little girl improves...

go ahead.Good things need to be done as early as possible to provide happiness to others .