View Full Version : NSBR: explaining death to a toddler
07-29-2007, 07:24 AM One of our close relatives has terminal
cancer. I've started trying to explain to our toddler - I've
told him that she is going to live with God and that she will be
very happy but that we will be very sad since we won't be able
to see her again. I told him that God can fix her but that
she'll stay with him and the angels...  DS is only 3 so I don't
really want to talk about sickness and death because I don't
want him thinking everytime gets sick that he is going to lose
them...  Would you go into anymore detail w/ a toddler or just
leave it at that?   AmyM Designs 07-29-2007, 07:28 AM This is a
hard situation to deal with. My father in law passed away when
my daughter had just turned 5. She dealt with it amazingly well,
and I told her something pretty similar. We told her that it was
his time to go and live in heaven and now he won't be sick
anymore, but we'll see him again one day a long time from now.
She was happy that he wouldn