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Old 10.03.2010, 13:54
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Re: Little boy in my son's kindergarten class killed by father

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I wasn't trying to be nasty. Your most well known thread is 'Backwards Switzerland' and you've mentioned Switzerland being a 'bit backwards' in this thread.

I'm not going to discuss that in a thread about someone's difficulty explaining death to their son.
...no worries. But frankly, what is there to discuss. I don't have kids but sometimes I believe that parents make things harder than they seem. You can say that Billy had an accident...or Billy's father was a very bad man and that he did something very very bad to Billy...he then eventually will understand what happened. I don't favour this over dramatization of such an event as for a 6 year old, this may all be confusing and brining a friggin psychologist to a place will only underline a kids impression of something unusual that happened. Please don't get me wrong, I don't find this heartless atrocitiy in a way harmless...but a simple explanation should be sufficient to a 6 year old. I mean, think of all the war victims in Sierra Leone who had to witness their parents getting their limbs chopped off and here we worry on how to break down a dramatic event that none of the kids had to witness in the first place.

Last edited by lost_inbroad; 10.03.2010 at 13:55. Reason: spelled Sierra Leone wrong
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