It's no secret that I'm not exactly the motherly type. I don't like children. I really don't like children. One of the few things I like less than living children are the ghosts of children. Oh, but aren't they sad little darlings who need love and acceptance to be shown into the light you ask? Not so much, at least not in my experience.
Almost by definition, all ghosts of children died untimely deaths. The death of any child is a terrible tragedy; an unthinkable crime against the natural order of things. However, the incredible bereavement of a family is not what creates a ghost. Children can become intelligent ghosts (as opposed to mere residuals) for lots of reasons, but the grand majority of them were children who were murdered or mistreated in some horrible way. This does not necessarily create the most sane and stable spirits.
Children do not have a fully developed sense of morality. The younger they are the less likely they are to understand the difference between right and wrong, the difference between innocent play and a horror show. Anyone who's watched a five year old pull the legs off a spider one by one knows this. Children who have been mistreated their whole lives are even less likely to understand good behavior verses bad behavior. Do you think this gets better when they die? Nope. So now, rather than having a mistreated and slightly feral child, you have a mistreated and slightly feral ghost who no longer has the constraints of a physical body nor the slightest fear of punishment for any action. Darling little angels my ass.
The ghosts of children are much, much more likely to engage in poltergeist activity and to scare the living daylights out of you; largely because they think it's fun and have no idea that they shouldn't. The ghosts of children will move objects, follow you down hallways, pinch, kick, push, and generally make your life hell. Sometimes it's because they desperately want attention and acknowledgment, but sometimes it's just because they think it's funny. The spirit of an adult can be reasoned with, placated, threatened, or cajoled; not so much with children. The ghosts of children either quiet down when they get a little tlc or they run amok until their banished. I really, really don't like dealing with them.
Another huge problem with the ghosts of children is that just because something says it's the ghost of a little child doesn't mean it actually is one. There are lots of very bad things out there that will pretend to be the ghost of a child because people usually won't put up protections against what they think is an innocent. What are you more likely to let into your life, something claiming to be a five year old that lost its mother or something claiming to be a non-human that wants to eat your life force? Hmmmm? How do you know the difference? Honestly, if you can't feel energies are aren't psychically looking for masks I don't know.
If you think you're in the presence of a ghostly child you need to put up all the protections you would for any other unknown metaphysical being. Unless you're an expert you really don't know what you're dealing with, and even if you are you still probably don't know for certain.
I really, really hate dealing with dead kids.
Almost by definition, all ghosts of children died untimely deaths. The death of any child is a terrible tragedy; an unthinkable crime against the natural order of things. However, the incredible bereavement of a family is not what creates a ghost. Children can become intelligent ghosts (as opposed to mere residuals) for lots of reasons, but the grand majority of them were children who were murdered or mistreated in some horrible way. This does not necessarily create the most sane and stable spirits.
Children do not have a fully developed sense of morality. The younger they are the less likely they are to understand the difference between right and wrong, the difference between innocent play and a horror show. Anyone who's watched a five year old pull the legs off a spider one by one knows this. Children who have been mistreated their whole lives are even less likely to understand good behavior verses bad behavior. Do you think this gets better when they die? Nope. So now, rather than having a mistreated and slightly feral child, you have a mistreated and slightly feral ghost who no longer has the constraints of a physical body nor the slightest fear of punishment for any action. Darling little angels my ass.
The ghosts of children are much, much more likely to engage in poltergeist activity and to scare the living daylights out of you; largely because they think it's fun and have no idea that they shouldn't. The ghosts of children will move objects, follow you down hallways, pinch, kick, push, and generally make your life hell. Sometimes it's because they desperately want attention and acknowledgment, but sometimes it's just because they think it's funny. The spirit of an adult can be reasoned with, placated, threatened, or cajoled; not so much with children. The ghosts of children either quiet down when they get a little tlc or they run amok until their banished. I really, really don't like dealing with them.
Another huge problem with the ghosts of children is that just because something says it's the ghost of a little child doesn't mean it actually is one. There are lots of very bad things out there that will pretend to be the ghost of a child because people usually won't put up protections against what they think is an innocent. What are you more likely to let into your life, something claiming to be a five year old that lost its mother or something claiming to be a non-human that wants to eat your life force? Hmmmm? How do you know the difference? Honestly, if you can't feel energies are aren't psychically looking for masks I don't know.
If you think you're in the presence of a ghostly child you need to put up all the protections you would for any other unknown metaphysical being. Unless you're an expert you really don't know what you're dealing with, and even if you are you still probably don't know for certain.
I really, really hate dealing with dead kids.
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