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Posted By: Adog581 on
So one day I was on my way to leave to go grocery shopping. I realized "Hey, I need shoes". So I went up to my room to get them and I have a LEGO Helicopter that the blades barely spin on and there thay are, spinning like i just W-D40'd them. I stood there outside of my room for nearly 5 minuets while these things are spinning, but the weird thing is as soon as I step in my room, they stop...immediately. Which leads me to believe it is a child.
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Posted By: ChristinaJoy on
In 1996, my husband at the time and my pregnant self moved into a home together, along with his 2 young children. How the house was designed was there was the master bedroom was on one end of the house and the other 2 bedrooms were at the other end. The 2 bedrooms had a bathroom that was between the two rooms. Anyways, the first evening in our home, all was quiet and we were in bed for the night. My husband and I were talking quietly and we heard what sounded like someone running from one end of the house to the other. The first time we heard it, we were expecting to see one of his children burst through the door into our room but no one did. We heard it again and assumed that one of the kids were up. I got up to see what was going on and who was running. I went to check in the children’s rooms and they were both sound asleep. I went back to my room and my husband and I talked about what it might be. We thought that maybe the heating ducts under the house were making noises or something to that effect. It continued to happen about once or twice a week since.
After some time went by, my son was born and that is when I really started noticing things around the house. I defiantly felt there was something in my house. I could start to see it. It was a see through gray mass that had a light/white outline. It usually hung out in the hallway, in front of the door to one of the kid’s rooms. I wasn’t scared by seeing it, for some reason it gave me a feeling of comfort. I was not sure why.It seemed like the spirit started making its self more known the more time went by. I figured my mind was playing tricks on me but a part of me felt like it wasn’t. When the 2 younger kids were home, one would say that the end kids room scared them really bad and wouldn’t go in there and the other one said that they had a new friend in that room and they played with them with their toys. Since I didn’t feel that it was anything harmful, and there was a good chance the child just had an imaginary friend, I just made sure that I listened to what the kid said about that room or their new found friend.
One night we were all in the living room watching TV. We heard a noise coming from the end kids’ bedroom. It was a toy that was going off by its self. It was a karate figure that made fighting noises like, “hiya hiya ya, hiya ya”. Well, this toy was doing its hiya thing over and over. I went in the room to find it and the noise stopped. I tried to find it and I could not. When I left the room, it started going off again. I reentered the room and to no avail, I could not find that toy because the noise stopped. I said to my husband, “The batteries must be going dead in the toy or something” as I said that, a different toy sounded off in the room. I was scared for a moment but a part of me felt that I shouldn’t. I had that comfort feeling again.The interesting thing is after that first night of hearing the toy, I would hear it again over and over, but it was usually at a time when the kids and I were home but my husband wasn’t. The funny thing is, every time that I went into bedroom when I heard the toys going off, there was usually a really good reason to. One time I went in and there was a pillow on the heater. Another time the window was open. Another time, someone had left the water running in the kids’ bathroom and it was about to over flow. So, every time that I heard that “hiya” I would go in to see what was wrong in the room. I felt like I had someone who was watching out for things and giving me a hand. Again, I had the comfort feeling.
In 2000, my husband and I separated. I felt very depressed and very alone but I never quite felt “alone” alone. The days I had my kids I was always tired and my son, 4 at the time, seemed to always wake up before me and he had a hard time waking me up. He would turn the TV up full blast to get me up. (I had been sleeping on the couch) I would tell him, “alright, alright, Im awake” then I would get up. One morning, when my children were with their father, I heard the TV up full blast and I woke up saying, “ok, ok, Im awake, Im awake” assuming it was my son turning up the TV. He wasn’t there and the remote was on the floor in front of the TV. I looked at the clock and it was 5 minutes before I had to leave for work. Something had turned on the TV full blast to get me up. Another time, I was kind of crying to myself alone in the living room saying to my self how alone I felt and then a few different toys went off in the room. It gave me a sense of peace and made me feel that maybe I really wasn’t alone.
More things started happening around the house with misplaced objects and things that were moved that there was no way my children could have moved them. One day my Ex Mother In Law was at the house to visit and my children were not there. She was legally blind but still could see enough to walk around and see some. I was telling her about all the weird things that were happening at the house and that I thought that I had a ghost. As I was talking to her about it, we decided to go to the store and I could finish telling her in the car on the way. I had always, always, put my car keys on a hook inside the dining room/kitchen. It was high enough up on the wall so that my kids couldn’t get to them. I had placed them there the night before and now they were not there. I looked everywhere and they not anywhere to be found. Well, I got the spare keys and we left for the store. When we came back, there was a dining room chair up against the wall where my key would hang and my keys were there on the hook. The chair, I know was not left there when I left because it was in a walkway. It kind of confirmed it for me that it was a little kid ghost because of having to use the chair to put the keys back.
I moved out in 2005 and I regretted having to leave because I didn’t want to leave the ghost behind. I think about the house all the time and sometimes I wished that it would have followed me where I went. I feel things ever once in a while in other places I go to but nothing has ever gave me the feeling of comfort that I felt that I received from my protective child ghost.
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Posted By: teigra on
when i was nine years old, i was sitting alone in my bedroom in the middle of the afternoon when i saw a little ghost girl. a few months before this incident i had an extended stay at the hospital and while i was there my grandfather gave me one of those small mylar ballons on a stick, one side being the shiny metalic material. well while i was sitting in a chair i was spinning this ballon around and watching the colors swirl as i grew bored of this i stopped twirling and looked at the metalic side only to see a small girl with long blonde hair wearing a dress with a white apron standing behind me. first off, my back was to a wall and i was facing the only door to the room therefore nobody had come up behind me. secondly my natural reaction was to turn around and see if she was still there, as you can imagine, she was not. now being a young girl i am sure that you all just think that i saw a doll and my mind played a trick on me, well i thought that too. i got up and looked for anything that i might have mistaken for a little girl only to find that the only things behind me were a shelf and a black radio. i sat back down in the seat to see if she would reappear or if i could see what i had thought was a girl but i only saw the black blur of the radio reflection.
sometime after this happened, i cant remember how long, i was awake late one night. i was laying in bed looking out my window into a dark night. we had no neighbors behind us but we did have neighbors next to us, they had a bright light that shown into our backyard where i was looking. while i was laying there i saw a large white orb floating in my backyard. at first i thought it was a person but then i noticed that it had no legs, no arms, and no head. it looked like a torso just floating along. as i said our neighbors had that light shining. i could not see thru this orb but i could see our swing set to the left of it and the tree to the right of it so there was no mistaking that something was there. as i watched trying to figure out what it was, it slowly walked thru my backyard and as it moved i became frightened as little girls do and i moved to the other end of the bed where i could no longer see out the window. the next morning my brothers claimed to have heard noices during the night. luckily, at this location, i never felt like the spirit(s) meant me any harm and i never saw anything in that house again(though my friends had claimed seeing a man's face in the kitchen window which also faced the backyard and i often felt like i was being watched and even looked after in the middle of the night), but we only lived there for another year so who knows what may have come to pass.
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Posted By: agentsully on
photo by curryfsh
Here is a great resource for parents, aunts, uncles, and other care-givers to children.
This is a list of 78 activities that a parent and child can do together. The PDF is formatted to print out on index cards so that on any given day you can just randomly pull one out for something fun to do with your child.
The activities are color coded for different age groups.
I put this together myself on my blog. Click below to go to the blog post.
78 Parent Child Activities & Free PDF Download!
I hope you like it. Please leave me a comment here or on my blog to let me know if you like it or if you have other activities you'd like me to add!
Thanks!
K. Stone
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Posted By: juliewaters on
All of us as parents have one goal for our children…to see them grow up to be happy & healthy. Unfortunately with the world we live in we can’t always keep our children safe.
I stress over whether or not my child is going to be safe when I leave them at the daycare. Of course I carefully interviewed everyone who care for my child.
My child’s daycare has cameras & a coded lock on the door but that doesn’t stop my worries.
I did some checking around at local daycare facilities and found this product that is so amazing. I found out that a lot of daycare facilities actually use it. It is this system you can buy on the net. Some major reputable companies sell this product. It identifies the people who come in and pick up your children. It makes it so that if someone is not known they can be matched against another database of people who are authorized to pick up your child. If you are not in the database it takes a copy of the fingerprint and flags someone to call the child’s guardian. This is perfect because it stops the need for permission notes which can be forged.
This way you cannot have a code or a key card that is stolen from someone else. It only allows the person who’s fingerprint on file to have access to the child without the knowledge of the facility. It also then records when & who came to pick up the child. There are these systems in daycare facilities almost like credit card machines that you either swipe a key card or punch in a code. This isn’t foolproof as codes can be lost or stolen. This I think is so great because no one can use your fingerprint without your knowledge (except if you were to cut it off…gruesome & unlikely).
I think this is perfect for those who are in a custody dispute. This makes it hard for anyone to just take there children out of the facility.
Yeah, I know there are those out there who would be a bit concerned about the big brother aspect. The neatness of this product is that it’s all internally done in the school so no other agency has the access to the fingerprint database. These systems are sold by different companies such as: M2SYS, Motorola, & NEC. They then sell them to the school and then they have nothing else to do with it. They do provide support but they don’t have access to it unless you ask them through tech support. It’s soley owned by the daycare.
Most people will disagree with me & say that their childcare facilities’ staff makes sure of this. That’s not true. I remember talking to a worker at my child’s daycare facility and asking about the coded system. I asked her if the code was changed on a regular basis and who had access to the code. She told me it was changed by the owner about once every 6 months and a lot of people have access to the code.
All this to say that the security measures at daycare facilities are lacking. I wish this were not true but something has to be done to keep our children safe.
I have to bring up something else. What if I were in the process of getting a divorce & custody dispute. What if my husband knew the code to the door and went to the facility to pick my child up. What if he abducted her. If they had the fingerprint technology it would alert the staff that someone unauthorized had tried to pick up the child.
I know one day Jess is going to be all grown up and not need me to care for her but yet in the next few years she will need my protection and the protection of the daycare facility I choose to leave her with. No, I am not a paranoid parent but a parent who wants to see her on her wedding day.
One last thing. I know you’re probably saying well so many mothers own daycare facilities or they are owned by Mom & Pop operations. If I can’t program my own phone just think the nightmare that the facilities would have to deal with because they probably don’t have tech support people on hand 24 hours a day. Well that is all alleviated. I actually went to the closet Day Care Center which I use and they gave me information about how they use the fingerprint technology and they even gave me the contact information about M2SYS, who actually provided them the solution. If you know how to play a DVD (which most of us have gotten out of the dark ages enough to do that) then you can do this. You just load the software that comes with the system and it is automatically done. I think the load time is less than 10 minutes. That’s so small compared to the hours I stress over this issue.
Thank you for listening reading my rant about tougher security measures in schools. I think this is a great system and it needs to be implemented in more then just daycare facilities but jails, elder care facilities, & hospitals. I think we would all sleep a little bit better when it comes to the worries about our families.
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