by Tara Paterson

So you are aware your child talks to an invisible friend or interacts with something you can’t see.  What other signs can you look for in your child which might indicate they are having intuitive or psychic experiences and what events can trigger a psychic shift?

For my son Caden, there were a few significant physical indicators as well as events that triggered a shift in his perceptive abilities.  When he was between the ages of 3 and 4, he stopped getting out of bed at night to go to the bathroom and as a result began wetting the bed.  It was an obvious change, because like clockwork every night in the wee hours of the morning, he would be in to wake me up to put him back to bed; it stopped abruptly.  When I talked with him about it, he said he could see monsters.  I knew he must have seen something, because it is common for children to say they see monsters when they see something others can’t see.  Through doing research about our home we found out there were ghosts in the house dating back to colonial times (our house was built in the 1850’s and we live in the heart of Civil War country in Virginia).  Caden had been able to see two little boys who had once lived in our house.

Often times people mistake a child wetting the bed as an indicator that something is physically wrong, but in paying attention and using my intuition to uncover the underlying issue, we found he was spooked by the ghosts he had seen. 

Another major event within the same timeframe was the sudden death of my father.  Caden was just 4 when his “papa” died suddenly of a heart attack.  At the funeral home, Caden approached the coffin and knocked on the side of it.  He was confused about why papa didn’t knock back and it would be a few years before I realized he had been able to see my dad’s spirit there that day and didn’t understand why papa wasn’t responding the way he had in his physical body.  This event triggered a major clairvoyant shift for Caden that has remained open to this day; he is now 7 and still sees grandpa on a near daily basis.

When a death or tragedy occurs involving someone a child is close to, they often experience an energetic shift that would not otherwise occur and the result can be an increase in sensitivity in any one of the intuitive senses.  Other examples of an event triggering a shift in sensitivity can be a sudden fall or being hit by something; a sudden illness; an event that triggers the empathic side of a child such as bullying in school, or kids being mean to one another.  I have experienced several of these with Caden and will share some of them as well as how his behavior would change as a result.

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