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Reply to "Non-religious parents, how did you talk to your kid about death? "
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[quote=Anonymous]My 5 year old seems to have a pretty good grasp after losing pets and her great grandmother. We say that when someone gets very very old or sick (or hurt really badly, ahem introduced that after a not looking before crossing the street incident), their body stops working and they're gone and only their body is left. Then you bury the body in the ground and the body becomes part of the earth again. That scene from the Lion King is actually VERY helpful for this concept. When she's asked questions about parents and grandparents dying, we assure her (for now at least) that your body only dies when you've lived a really really long time and your body gets too tired to live anymore. We talk about how we miss people and pets that have died a lot and it's really sad, but it's nice to talk about them and remember them. She's never lost anyone she's been very close to though, so we've really only covered the concept of death without having to get into grief yet. [/quote]
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