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“What Has Your Child Done To Make You Think They Lived A Past Life?“—25 Parents Respond

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“My daughter was 3-4, she kept asking me, “Mommy, do you remember when you were little and I was big? I took good care of you, we went to the store all the time!”—Mommacat1992

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“This is about my sister. We have always called her a baby genius and she has always seemed like an old soul. I remember when she was four she was playing in another room and my mom was cleaning. My sister comes into the room and asks my mom, “Have you been cleaning because it really smells like ether in here.” As in the surgical anesthesia used in the civil war! I had never even heard of that word before. When we asked her how she knew the smell of ether said, “It is what we used.”—take2task

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“When my oldest son was three, he used to wake up crying and saying that he wanted to “go home.” Over and over he would repeat it. I would reassure him that everything was okay, he was at home. Happens for many months. We had a huge map of the world in the hallway and one night when he was upset, I took him to the map and showed him where we lived and asked, where his other home was. He pointed out a small town in Mexico. Day after day he pointed to the same exact place. So, we took him there. It was a beautiful little area and we had a great time. There was nothing profound in any of his reactions. When we got home he started sleeping through the night and never mentioned it again. We live in California and my husband and I are both white. However, our son is adopted and although his bio father is technically “unknown,” we were told it is probable that he was Hispanic.” —germanpoetrygeek

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“When my daughter was little (younger than 4,) not only did she never get mad once, she loved to put on bathrobes and sit Indian style and close her eyes and meditate, with no knowledge of the practice that we were aware of.”—username deleted

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“My mom loves to tell this story: When I was young, I really wanted to learn Russian, so they got me into a class. In general, Russian was very easy to pick-up and use. It sort of “made sense” and I could construct complex sentences. The teacher told my mother that it was spooky because I could speak it in a way that they hadn’t been teaching me (I could figure-out colloquial phrases). To this day, I still have it and haven’t lost my Russian.”—username deleted

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