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Explaining death to children.

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Explaining death to children.
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RE: Explaining death to children.
June 26, 2014 at 8:16 pm
I don't think I'd use it with Grampa, but we lost pets during the girls' toddler years. I explained that they were "all gone" like crackers all eaten, and toys broken, but that unlike the crackers they would live on as long as we remembered them.

By the time the family dog died they were just preteen, and the exact truth was easy, especially since the dog had congestive heart failure so we had lots of notice the end was near.
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Explaining death to children. - by Intimae_Hasta - June 26, 2014 at 3:17 am
RE: Explaining death to children. - by Wyrd of Gawd - June 26, 2014 at 3:57 am
RE: Explaining death to children. - by Anomalocaris - June 26, 2014 at 1:20 pm
RE: Explaining death to children. - by Wyrd of Gawd - June 26, 2014 at 6:40 pm
RE: Explaining death to children. - by Nine - June 26, 2014 at 5:34 am
RE: Explaining death to children. - by Ravenshire - June 27, 2014 at 11:15 pm
RE: Explaining death to children. - by Mudhammam - July 4, 2014 at 9:34 am
RE: Explaining death to children. - by vodkafan - June 26, 2014 at 5:33 am
RE: Explaining death to children. - by ManMachine - June 26, 2014 at 6:17 am
RE: Explaining death to children. - by KUSA - June 26, 2014 at 7:06 am
RE: Explaining death to children. - by Intimae_Hasta - June 26, 2014 at 7:49 am
RE: Explaining death to children. - by Napoléon - June 26, 2014 at 11:06 am
RE: Explaining death to children. - by vodkafan - June 26, 2014 at 1:18 pm
RE: Explaining death to children. - by IAmTheeWallrus - June 26, 2014 at 1:59 pm
RE: Explaining death to children. - by MJ the Skeptical - June 26, 2014 at 2:12 pm
RE: Explaining death to children. - by Cato - June 26, 2014 at 7:14 pm
RE: Explaining death to children. - by Minimalist - June 26, 2014 at 7:31 pm
RE: Explaining death to children. - by Cato - June 26, 2014 at 7:34 pm
RE: Explaining death to children. - by Minimalist - June 26, 2014 at 7:40 pm
RE: Explaining death to children. - by Jenny A - June 26, 2014 at 8:16 pm
RE: Explaining death to children. - by Dystopia - June 27, 2014 at 10:52 pm
RE: Explaining death to children. - by Zidneya - June 28, 2014 at 12:52 am
RE: Explaining death to children. - by Angrboda - June 28, 2014 at 3:25 pm
RE: Explaining death to children. - by Minimalist - June 28, 2014 at 3:39 pm
RE: Explaining death to children. - by Ksa - July 10, 2014 at 7:21 pm

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