How To Tell Him

Well I must say I have no clue what I want to say. Yep no more then a couple of days into the blog world and I have hit a wall. I guess I could tell you about how my son Ian is obsessed with his great grandfather. I am sure you are saying to yourself about right now "So he likes his great grandfather". Well let me just say that Ian does not know his great grandfather. He died before Ian turned 2 so I know he has no memory of him. Well Ian has just been going on and on about how much he likes his great grandfather and he pretends that sometimes he is his great grandfather. Infact that was the game he played today at his granny's house. He was Papa Joe and his cousin was his dog stinker.


I guess Ian feels like he knows him because the room he stayed in at my in laws now holds all the kids toys and is still called papa Joe's room. So one day Ian wanted to know who this papa Joe was. I told Ian the best way you can tell a 6 year old about death is that papa Joe died and that he was up in heaven. Ian does not grasp the concept of death. He thinks the cemetery is a place where you go to die not where they put you when you die. I have tried to explain to him that no that you have to die first to be put there. He just doesn't get that the physical death is a permanent situation. I really don't know what to do about this topic. Do you tell your children about death. That everyone will die one day? or is that something that you just kind of figure out yourself? I don't remember anyone telling me about death. I just don't want to scare Ian. He gets scared very easily. Well anyways I guess that is all for tonight.