Do the invisible friends of children really exist?
According to the NY Child Study Center, about 65% of children between the ages of three and five develop invisible friends. For the most part, research has shown that these “friends” appear at a time when children are beginning to form their own identities and are testing the boundaries between fantasy and reality. However, they have also been reported by children as young as 18 months. In the past, it was assumed that kids outgrow their invisible friends by the time they enter school. We now know that fully one-third continue to interact with them through age 7—and some well into their teens and adulthood. For many children, invisible friends are clearly the product of a wondrous imagination. For others, they are as real as the human beings around them. Could it possibly be that they are real? Could it possibly be that children, with their non-jaded approach to life, actually see Fée—or Faeries? Although our modern western culture tends to scoff at this idea, many other cultures—since
