JUST GIVE ME 10 DAYS ~ Round 47

1…1718202223…25

Replies

  • quiltingjaine
    quiltingjaine Posts: 6,279 Member
    @marcvb35 If people ask, you should tell them. They can process the information and do what they want with it. Your wife doesn’t sound very supportive.
  • puttyputty
    puttyputty Posts: 2,993 Member
    edited July 2018
    Thanks, @mthomas0228!
  • MadisonMolly2017
    MadisonMolly2017 Posts: 11,152 Member
    tiabirdie56 wrote: »
    I dearly love children and I'm an emotional person, so yesterday was a crying day on and off until the end. So very sad.
    My DIL was telling me that the daycare director seems to not want the parents to tell their kids. She wants to tell them when they are all together at the daycare. My DIL wants to tell my granddaughter, my son wants the daycare to handle it. I side with my DIL on this matter.

    Me too, @tiabirdie56

    I side with your DIL, too. The director may be concerned that children will here from other children if they are told earlier than others. The director could ask parents to tell their children on a particular evening & then the school could process it the next day & days to come with the children.

    As a former teacher of young children, I found young children do not process death as we, adults, do. After all, many of them think rocks are alive! They don’t realize the finality of death. For months/years, they may ask when they will see the deceased again. And they can ask many questions that can make adults uncomfortable.

    Because death is so intertwined with each family’s beliefs (from deep religious beliefs “we will see them again in Heaven” “their work here on Earth was done” to atheistic “it was an accident” “they stopped breathing” “the police are investigating”, I think it best that each family handles it — at least initially.

    Huge hugs to you.

Categories