Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
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Once a child is confronted with the concept of death there's a certain innocence that goes.
Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.
Death can't be so bad if mom went through it. It makes it easier for the child to follow.
It doesn't take that many years for a kid to realise that they're going to die. It's always there in the back of their mind the rest of their lives.
As a child, I didn't know what they mean by 'to die.' So I grew up in a place where people used to die all the time, but a child is not allowed to see a dead body. When you ask, 'Where is so-and so?' you're told, 'He's gone to another world where we all go to live in the future.'
I think any parent, at some time or other, has thoughts of their child dying. That's probably one of the worst things that could ever happen to a parent.
Teenagers too often have to deal with loss and death. You had to cope with the untimely death of your brother; how can young people deal with such tragedies?
You never see a child die from education on TV. But make no mistake about it: children die from lack of education all the time. Children without an education are more likely to grow up to have HIV/AIDS. They're more likely to die in infancy or before the age of five.
As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.
I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.