My 4 yo just asked if I am going to die (fedia.io)

submitted 1 week ago by Hello_there@fedia.io to c/parenting@lemmy.world

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I think I handled it well.
I told them yes in a longx50 time. While I was wiping their butt. Then they asked if they were going to die. I told them maybe, when they are an old old old lady like Grandma.
That seemed to go well enough.

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[-] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 8 points 1 week ago

lol, my now 8 year old used to ask how long befor X would die, pretty much daily. Then for a while, any famous band, or singer or actor; are they dead or alive?!

We just always answered about everyone dies, but when they are very old or very sick. Unfortunately, younger brother was due for open heart surgery at that time so it was hard to explain what was serious and what was risk and what was death.

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