I think I handled it well.
I told them yes in a longx50 time. While I was wiping their butt.
Then they asked if they were going to die. I told them maybe, when they are an old old old lady like Grandma.
That seemed to go well enough.
So grandma confirmed dying then. GG Gma
Can I open a homicide investigation before the homicide occurs?
lol, my now 8 year old used to ask how long befor X would die, pretty much daily. Then for a while, any famous band, or singer or actor; are they dead or alive?!
We just always answered about everyone dies, but when they are very old or very sick. Unfortunately, younger brother was due for open heart surgery at that time so it was hard to explain what was serious and what was risk and what was death.
I remember when I learned that adults don’t want you to talk about death.
Ourselves, we had a bit of trauma to deal with when they saw the movie Coco. They all had already learned that we, like all living beings, are going to die. But I think it made them realize a bit more directly what it means.
Good enough for a four year old probably 😁. My 3 1/2 will have questions soon enough, he’s started to use the word “died” already but clearly without a lot of understanding. I’m also hoping it goes well.
When my son was 2 he had trouble with the F sound and would substitute D.
So there was a video my Mom sent me after he had slept over at her house of birds flying by and he said “the birds died!” And she asks him why the birds died. And he replied, “they are looking for dood (food)”.
My mom is hard of hearing and just totally didn’t get it, so she was all concerned he had some weird morbid thing going on. My wife and I laughed so hard when we heard the second sentence about dood (food).
