When you think about children and how they deal with death you pretty much think about the deaths of their family or maybe close friends, but I also think about the deaths of their beloved animals. I think its weird that when a child loses a grandparent or someone like that we take them to the funeral and we hope they cope well which they usually do since they are so young. But when a pet starts to get ill we don't take the child to the vet with us when the animal is put down or anything like that, and we expect them to morn more over the animal.
I think this is odd because yes I understand that kids greatly morn over their animals loss but shouldn't they morn a lot over loss of their family members as well? I think the question will always stand as to why kids morn greater over their animals then people, and I don't really know the answer either.
I wonder if it relates to their relationships....
ReplyDeleteJamie got a wee bit upset over our fish dying, but we hadn't had them for very long.
When his grandmother died a few years back, he really mourned, but one of the things he told me was that he was sad because he couldn't remember her well and now he wouldn't know her. Pretty sophisticated for a 6 year old.
I wonder though, what it would be like if our cat died? The cat has been living with us for over a year now. I suspect that there would be a lot of grief. They have had a very close relationship...
Your picture is doing me in, I might add. At first I found myself looking at it and wondering who was dead!!!
ya the picture fits it well haha, when I was really young and my cat died I know it really upset me but then I never had any family die until I was older so I cant really compare it. It probably is to do with their relationships I guess.
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