Talking To Your Kids About Death

Talking To Your Kids About Death

An older woman once approached me to tell me why she liked the Children’s Object Lesson in the worship service.  Her reason surprised me.  “You frequently talk about death, and that’s important,” she said.  “It is not good when parents try to insulate their kids from the reality of death.  It happens, and they need to know how to deal with it.”  She said that as someone who had a hard time coping with her mother’s death when she was a girl, in part because death was a forbidden subject in their home.

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