Ever felt like your child was reincarnated?

[Katy]

I don’t think I really believe in reincarnation but one of my kids is so much like a relative that died about 20 years ago… it’s not genetic bc this child is adopted. It’s very strange. Have you ever wondered about your kids? 

[elegantlion]

My son is very much like my dad, obviously not reincarnated because my son is 23 and my dad only died in 2015. He lives with my mom (they adore each other) and sometimes my mom remarks on how eerie it is because it's like living with my dad when he was younger. Ds is very laid back, has some of the same quirks, mannerisms, likes, and even the same things that tick him off. 

[Rosie_0801]

I had a dream a few years ago where my son told me he was planning to reincarnate and had his next father picked out. 

[YaelAldrich]

All of my kids except our oldest are named after my husband's relatives who have died (it's a Ashkenazi Jewish thing). They each resemble in so many ways their namesakes. It's weird. And annoying in some aspects. 

[Katy]

8 minutes ago, Rosie_0801 said:

I had a dream a few years ago where my son told me he was planning to reincarnate and had his next father picked out. 

Interesting.  Did he share the dad?

[Drama Llama]

8 minutes ago, YaelAldrich said:

All of my kids except our oldest are named after my husband's relatives who have died (it's a Ashkenazi Jewish thing). They each resemble in so many ways their namesakes. It's weird. And annoying in some aspects. 

If you have any more kids, be very careful to pick relatives you like.  

My kids' tutor came over today for the first time in a long time.  If he had been born since my son died (obviously he wasn't) I would swear he was my son reincarnated.  It's like spending time with the person my son would have grown up to be. 

[Rosie_0801]

8 minutes ago, Katy said:

Interesting.  Did he share the dad?

Yup. It's someone with the same synesthesia pattern as my grandfather too.

[lauraw4321]

My oldest, when she was very young, say 2 or early 3, got frustrated because I couldn't tell her more about when she was with God waiting to be born. That doesn't match up my theology, and was rather creepy. She wanted to know about when she got to see God again and when I would see God, and it was so out of left field that I started to wonder if she was having a premonition about my death or hers or something. She never talked about it again and I haven't thought about it in a long time until you asked this. I may ask her and see if she has any memories around those conversations.

[HS Mom in NC]

Extended relatives have joked that I'm my maternal great-grandmother reincarnated. None of them actually believe in reincarnation.  She died 10 years before I was born.

[Rosie_0801]

27 minutes ago, Homeschool Mom in AZ said:

Extended relatives have joked that I'm my maternal great-grandmother reincarnated. None of them actually believe in reincarnation.  She died 10 years before I was born.

I had a dream once that my grandfather told me reincarnation was a thing, which surprised me a bit seeing how he'd been a church going Catholic.

[Selkie]

There’s an interesting book on this topic entitled Return to Life: Extraordinary Cases of Children Who Remember Past Lives. The author is Jim Tucker, a professor of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Pretty fascinating stuff.

[Momto6inIN]

9 hours ago, lauraw4321 said:

My oldest, when she was very young, say 2 or early 3, got frustrated because I couldn't tell her more about when she was with God waiting to be born. That doesn't match up my theology, and was rather creepy. She wanted to know about when she got to see God again and when I would see God, and it was so out of left field that I started to wonder if she was having a premonition about my death or hers or something. She never talked about it again and I haven't thought about it in a long time until you asked this. I may ask her and see if she has any memories around those conversations.

My kids have always been very disturbed around that age to look at scrapbooks from before they were born and realize that they aren't in any of the pictures and keep repeatedly asking, "Where was I?" and are very unsatisfied with the response of, "It was before you were born." It's like theself-centered toddler part of them refuses to believe that they haven't always existed! 😂 I ended up explaining to them that they were in God's mind, and that satisfied both them and my theology lol

[plansrme]

10 hours ago, Selkie said:

There’s an interesting book on this topic entitled Return to Life: Extraordinary Cases of Children Who Remember Past Lives. The author is Jim Tucker, a professor of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Pretty fascinating stuff.

I am glad you remembered this. I heard a podcast on this topic a while back and was trying to remember which podcast so I could find the episode. The podcast referred to this book a lot and had some pretty amazing stories. I tend to believe it is coincidental, but I am not so conceited as to believe that I know everything there is to know about everything and, thus, am open to the possibility that reincarnation, ghosts, aliens, etc. exist.

[Scarlett]

I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but genes are powerful things.  Not surprising how any of us can behave and look so much like our ancestors.  

[Katy]

Just now, Scarlett said:

I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but genes are powerful things.  Not surprising how any of us can behave and look so much like our ancestors.  

This child was adopted, isn't known to be related to anyone in our family, and is from a different region of the country than Florida or any state that side of the family has moved to.

[Scarlett]

Just now, Katy said:

This child was adopted, isn't known to be related to anyone in our family, and is from a different region of the country than Florida or any state that side of the family has moved to.

Oh well, then I got nothing.  LOL Maybe you should do a dna test and see if you are actually related.