Seems it is easy for me to get wrapped up in what Anastasia tells me and take it for face value. Bad idea.
Anastasia is ten. No matter how mature she acts, she is ten. She has the memory and creativeness of a ten year old.
My mistake was taking what my little ten year old said as face value instead of questioning the person the tales were about.
I got wrapped up in the moment and all my past came back and suddenly I was fighting for myself again. Because Anastasia tried to tell me what she remembered mixed with what she felt mixed with something she was trying to tell me.
I am sorry. I am sorry to my neighbor who should have never had to deal with this. I am sorry to Anastasia who should have never been in the middle of this. I made a promise this will never happen again, and it will not.
9:12 pm on February 19th, 2009
What exactly happened? A good imagination should be encouraged, though you should be able to hold a conversation with her and make sure she can differentiate between reality and imagination. As long as she can tell the difference then I don’t see any harm in her embellishments.
But from your last paragraph it sounds like one of her stories harmed someone… so I guess your questions can’t really be answered without more information.