| Does your child talk about when she used to be | | | | Some parents either don't notice what their child is |
| someone else? Listen to her. Write it down. She could | | | | saying or don't believe it's possible that the child is |
| be talking about a past life. Children are a lot more | | | | remembering a past life. They may discount the |
| aware of the spirit realm than most adults realize. | | | | experience and think the child is making it all up. If your |
| When a soul comes into a body, it brings with it cellular | | | | child wants to tell you who they were or how they |
| and/or conscious memory of where it was before | | | | died in a past life, please listen. Children have much to |
| coming to earth. | | | | teach us, and these experienced souls have come to |
| Without prompting, many children as young as two | | | | us for a reason. Not only are past life experiences real, |
| years of age remember and speak of their past lives. | | | | they affect us in our present journey. Having |
| Some describe details, people, and events of that life | | | | knowledge of your past life may explain some |
| that they had no way of learning in this life. The Sun | | | | behaviors, habits, or health challenges we encounter in |
| Newspapers in Sri Lanka has a short documentary on | | | | this life. |
| YouTube about a young girl who remembered living | | | | Reincarnation was once an accepted belief, but thanks |
| and dying in a village not more than six miles from her | | | | to the Second Council of Constantinople in A.D. 553, |
| current home and life. When taken to the village, she | | | | many people were led to believe that humans only |
| instantly recognized her home, called the names of her | | | | have one life or one chance to get it right in order to |
| siblings, and went directly to the cabinet where her | | | | avoid eternal damnation of the soul. Even today, |
| toys were stored in the past life. Fortunately, both sets | | | | according to Dr. J. Chiappalone's book Keys to Reality, |
| of her parents accepted this phenomenon and she is | | | | more than 60 percent of the world's population still |
| allowed to spend time in both homes. | | | | believes in reincarnation. According to a 2005 Gallup |
| ABC News shares a story about a boy named | | | | poll, only 20 percent of Americans believe in |
| James Leininger who recalled details of his past life as | | | | reincarnation. |
| a World War II Navy pilot who was shot down and | | | | As a child, I had no one to help me understand some |
| killed over the Pacific. James had terrible nightmares | | | | of the paranormal things I experienced. Naturally, I feel it |
| about a plane crash; and he knew details about | | | | is very important to give parents and grandparents a |
| airplanes and a pilot named James Huston Jr. that he | | | | comfortable starting point for discussion on topics that |
| couldn't have known at such a young age. Once his | | | | aren't easily explained to children. Reading to a child is |
| parents researched and found evidence supporting the | | | | a great way to spark questions from your little ones |
| boy's claim, they believed that he was the reincarnation | | | | and reassure children that it's okay to talk about |
| of James Huston, Jr. and his nightmares stopped. | | | | spiritual things. |