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Oh my, figuring out truth from made up stories is so hard with kids. It's really frustrating. And sometimes the weirdest stories do come from something they saw on TV. Or in a book.

My youngest told me a few weeks ago that her day care group went to the beach. I'm pretty sure they do not take two year olds to the beach, and they've really never done any field trips to my knowledge. My oldest came home from a second day in a new school claiming he didn't eat anything all day. He's four and a little shy sometimes, so I thought he was scared to ask the lunch lady for food. A few hours later, he randomly goes: "I didn't eat anything all day... except for the cereal... and the milk... and the fries... and the sandwich thingy..." oookay?

My two year old makes up stories about what happened at daycare. Some are obviously made up, like saying that my parents or Anna and Elsa from Frozen visited daycare and took naps with her. Some I'm not so sure, like when she says she or another kid in her class were biting. (We've never gotten a report about our daughter biting, but other kids have bitten her, although not very often.) She'll also report seeing things out the car window that are obviously not there. At this age, she doesn't really understand the difference between real and imaginary yet but seems to have a good imagination.

In your case, I'd probably assume she saw a picture of Tarzan or another character like that somewhere, and she has a very active imagination.

For months, our daughter, 2 at the time, would talk about the "green men" every time we would take a specific detour on the way home from daycare. Any time we went that way, we'd try to scope out what she was talking about.

Eventually, we realized there was some construction going on and she was referring to the bright yellow vests the workers wore. Their vivid imaginations combined with a still growing vocabulary can caused quite a bit of confusion!

@HintofMint: We do that too!! We can't really ask our LO questions about sketchy topics, because she will either freak out or not stop talking about it, ever!!! When she was going through a "monster is in my room" phase, people told us to use monster spray ... but that would confirm that monsters are "real" to her, so we just had to say they aren't real, and move on quickly.

@caitlanc: @littlejoy: my younger brother had a similar, consistent story. It wasn't about a house, but rather his "other parents". Their name was Dan and Jane. He'd talk about them frequently, non-chalantly and the facts would always remain the same. Always weirded me out, but to be fair, Dan was the main character in his favorite book and Jane was my mom's friend. As a kid I thought it was so funny he was just okay with having these other parents (that he clearly never saw!!).