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Oct 11, 2012 at 7:46pm
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It's wonderful. I've had small children, and had to explain death to them. My husband's grandfather and grandmother (paternal and maternal respectively) passed away in 2010 when my children were 5 and 9 respectively. My 9 year old had a lot of questions about what happened after death, why they'd died, was cancer contagious, etc. My 5 year old simply accepted most of it - they were old, they died, they weren't here anymore. That's what happens when people die. She was almost too accepting - it can be hard for an adult to respond to a casual comment at a dinner table that 'It's a shame Nana Rose can't be here for Christmas dinner, but she's dead.' Your story was very touching though. We had a colleague at work whose wife had the same medical problem when her daughter was born. She didn't die, but ended up in therapy learning to walk and talk, etc all over again. Very hard with a newborn, but a year later you would never know anything had happened. All the best with your writing, Elle Founder of the "Kiwis on WDC!"  group  ** Image ID #1894613 Unavailable ** |
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