(January 3, 2016 at 10:41 am)Faith No More Wrote: Well, that escalated quickly.
I believe in being full honest with my kids, but there is definitely the right time for everything. My four year-old went through a phase where he was freaking out about death, and no matter how much my wife and I assured him he didn't have to worry about it for a long time, he wouldn't stop freaking out about it. Still, my wife and I never lied to him about it. We told him yes, he would die, but not for a long, long time. That didn't really comfort him.
Some subjects are too heavy for kids to deal with if they're not old enough, so a little bit of fudging the truth can be warranted.
It sounds to me like you didn't tell him the truth after all. What authority do you have it on that he will in fact die? If you thought about it more you might've told him you don't know
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