A mother recounts the experience of her son's imaginary friend, Ceedee, dying, highlighting the impact of video games and the complexities of childhood imagination.
There are a lot of parenting articles on “what to expect.” What to expect when you bring your baby home from the hospital. What to expect at your first pediatrician appointment. What to expect on your child’s first day of school. I read all of these and consume social media parenting advice like it’s oxygen. I cling to the advice of the “experts” and their promise of raising emotionally intelligent, kind, happy little humans.
But even armed with all the advice the internet has to offer, I was wholly unprepared for the day that my child came home from kindergarten and announced that his imaginary friend was dead.that arrived after exposure to video games. Mario’s frequent onscreen deaths seemed benign to our five-year-old. Despite our many explanations about the finality and seriousness of death, without the passing of a beloved family member or pet, the notion remained hypothetical and, thankfully, entirely pixelated. My son’s imaginary friend was named Ceedee, and had been a constant presence in our family life for the past 18 months. He was, inexplicably, a nonagenarian British man who worked at the train station on Thursdays and did odd drywall jobs in August. Ceedee had two fully grown adult children and was also the business partner in my lawnmower-loving child’s imaginary landscaping and equipment repair company. He started off with humble beginnings, living in a Dollarama birdhouse under our dining room table, but quickly branched out to have all sorts of grand adventures. Ceedee had travelled extensively and had opinions on everything (including our dinner offerings), although those views tended to reflect the experiences of a sheltered, splash-pad-loving kindergartener rather than an elderly businessman. Through a big move, a new school and lots of change and uncertainty, it became clear that our son, an only child, was filtering his entire world view through this fictional companio
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