Well if anything this post proves you can't predict how young children will react to concepts like death. And that there's no One Right Answer.
Case in point: I raised my children to be fundamentalists and they became atheists before I did.
So ... to those of you predicting that the OP just made a fatal mistake, I'd say, YOU try to tell your inconsolable child that they will rot in the dirt and be eaten by worms and there are no angels. You won't last any longer than the OP did.
It'll be okay. No parent is perfect, all children are insane and the young ones all look like Winston Churchill. It's an absurd world, and those who think they have it figured out are ... absurd.
Case in point: I raised my children to be fundamentalists and they became atheists before I did.
So ... to those of you predicting that the OP just made a fatal mistake, I'd say, YOU try to tell your inconsolable child that they will rot in the dirt and be eaten by worms and there are no angels. You won't last any longer than the OP did.
It'll be okay. No parent is perfect, all children are insane and the young ones all look like Winston Churchill. It's an absurd world, and those who think they have it figured out are ... absurd.
