No, my kid was not made up but I was speaking to an "imaginary" child as it were.
Thankfully I don't have a "fictional" child, they're like a lot to live UP OR DOWN to as a parent. I'm sorry I couldn't successfully parent Anne of Green Gables let alone successfully ORPHAN raise her. I'm sorry, I would smack that kid so hard in the lip on day one, CPS would come.
I am of course, kidding. Laura Wilder was a major pain, so it seemed, and her SISTER freaking went BLIND. I could so not cope with either of THAT. Tom Sawyer, he was just, like, OMG NOT GOOD. Scout was... I would have let Scout down, very very badly. I'm trying super hard to come up with a fictional child I could deal with even slightly. Pippi Longstocking, I'm sorry I wanna BE her, not parent her.
I KNOW!!! Astro Boy!!! But not the sanitized American version, the cool Asian one where his rocket would come out his ....!!!!! THAT IS THE KID I WANT TO PARENT.
Notice he's a robot.
No my actual child was more than plenty. LOL
Anna