Children and Ghosts
By Tina
The existence of ghosts has been debated for centuries. It is only in modern
times with technology having advanced to it's current stage that we may now
capture on film and audio what many believe to be images of the supernatural.
The questions of why some can and yet others cannot see or sense the presence of
these entities has been contested with numerous theories both for and against
the subject of spirits. One such cause for speculation is do our children see
and sense what many adults either cannot or will not see?
One theory is that children have not had years to adjust their thinking and have
not had the time to train themselves as to what to accept or not accept as
reality like adults have. Adults program their thinking and consequently refuse
certain images, noises, and feeling as real simply because in our minds we
cannot accept impossible or unproven science.
Some parents unknowingly start to teach and train their children at a very young
age to block these images. They do it out of protection and misunderstanding of
the situation. How many parents have tucked their little ones back into bed with
the words that they thought were reassuring; there are no such things as ghosts,
you just had a bad dream, it wasn't real, it was just your imagination? I think
most parents are guilty of this including myself. How many parents are guilty of
telling their children that their imaginary friend is not real, maybe not
realizing that not only is that friend real but a ghost? I am sure it has
happened before. Do you ever wonder if any of those bad dreams, those images
seen in the night, those imaginary friends how many may actually be ghosts that
for whatever reason have shown themselves to a child? When we tell our children
it was just a bad dream we may inadvertently teaching them to mistrust what they
may have actually be seeing. Eventually training themselves to block what they
have been taught cannot be real. Where as the opposite side of this theory; the
parent who teaches their children that sometimes for whatever reason, a spirit
may linger after death, is leaving a space in that child to be able to accept
the vision, the noise or the feeling of the supernatural. Could this be why some
people are able to accept the supernatural with an open mind and yet others
cannot? Does the door get shut at childhood or can it remain open? This is just
one of the may theories used to explain why children see more of the
supernatural world
then adults do. Comments are indeed welcome!
