Yoblog - Musings of a Church Youth Officer

I’m still puzzling about how to explain death to my three year old without frightening or confusing him too much or leaving with a hospital phobia.  He has lost a great friend and a great grandmother in the past 3 months and still asks after them both in the present tense.

I guess it is not a problem?

So far, I’ve heard young children being told that “somebody is with baby Jesus”, “is hiding behind the clouds and the stars”, or has simply “gone somewhere where they can’t come back from”.  I have fuzzy memories of being told that you could get to heaven on a flying carpet when I was little!  All a bit confusing!

 At the same time, he does know that over enthusiastic playing with bugs in the garden results in them not moving any more and being “broken”.

I think I’ll let it rest..he’ll learn as part of growing up and childhood innocence is so short.