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[quote=Anonymous]It’s important to offer your kids a consistent and honest message about death from the start. Kids can understand basic concepts of this very early and you just need to adjust what you tell them based on their age. But keep the message the same so they know they can trust you, they control how much they take in at a time (keep things simple and answer questions directly but don’t go off on some long confusing and overwhelming tangent). They may feel scared or sad, that’s okay, that’s how kids learn how to handle these feelings.

Remember too that things like heaven and God are abstract, so they aren’t going to understand it anyway when they are young. It’s very confusing to get one message from the person you are suppose to trust and another message later on. Also, I think you’ll find that once you start trying to protect them from scary things, there is no “older age” that you will feel okay with sharing scary things…. it only gets harder. Attempting to protect them from pain and trying to control their feelings, will only lead to kids who are less able to cope with hard facts, or difficult events, like death or loss of a friendship, or learning about all the other scary stuff in the world. [/quote]

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