Boy, watching the Olympics, “Wow!”
“That’s the high dive. Would you like to try that someday?”
“No. I’m going to die someday, right?”
We’ve been having this conversation a lot lately. Several months ago, when we were looking at a dead cricket, the boy asked me if we would die too. I told him that all living things die someday, but that we wouldn’t die for a very long time. That answer seemed to satisfy him, but now it seems that to him “someday” means “the day I die.” I’ve tried to explain that someday doesn’t mean a certain day, but the morbid association persists.
I need to choose my words carefully when explaining new things to him.
I’m such a lurker of yours lol
I normally don’t link, but I read this explanation that a father gave his children that I absolutely fell in love with. Thought it might help.
http://atheistnexus.org/profiles/blog/show?id=2182797%3ABlogPost%3A86990
He approaches it from an atheist view point, but it can easily be adapted to suit whatever your religious views are.
Thanks for the link! That does look like a great way to help kids get comfortable with their mortality. I was really sad to follow his link and see that all the light/tunnel near-death experiences have been explained away with scientific research though! So little mystery left!
I haven’t quite gotten completely comfortable with my own death as of yet, so having to explain things to my son is definitely pushing me to do some thinking.
Very happy to hear that I have a lurker!