Dealing with Death

Dealing with death can be a tough thing with little kids. It can be tough for any of us honestly. In fact, I think it IS tough for all of us... some just don;t want anyone, even themselves to know that. Recently we have been discussing this with Reagan because her pet fish passed away. It's amazing how well she can understand that he was sick and was just not going to get better. She wanted to put him in the toilet herself, and flushed him on her own. And since then she has wanted to talk about it more. A very good sign. A couple of days after Blue died, she asked to get a new fish, and we did. Unfortunately last time I checked, the new fish didn't look like it was doing too well. I'm not sure how that one would go. But Reagan has talked to us about death, and that everything dies. And she's talked about how Blue wasn't moving any more. At one point though she told us, that she wished that she could make Blue happy now. So we think that she is ready to go into the religious side of death as well. She loves her little Bible, and seems to understand the basic stories, so we think she would get it. Daddy had to go away fro work though, so we didn't have time to talk to her about that yet. It doesn't seem to be bothering her, bt we plan to talk to her about it when he gets back from the business trip.