Help!
Any tips for how to manage my 5yo DS who is currently very worried/ preoccupied about dying. He is a bit of a thinker and in the last few weeks has stopped going off to sleep so well at night, often coming back out onto landing in floods of tears cos he's worried about death. He keeps asking me when we are going to die, why we have to die and saying that he doesn't want me to die.
Also questions like where is God/heaven etc, which are slightly awkward given I don't even know what my own beliefs are..
Wonder if he's seen a little too much on tv like Star Wars recently (where Darth Vader takes his mask off at the end)- too young for this I am thinking with hindsight...
Any advice gratefully received as it breaks my heart to see him so worried and upset..
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5yo DS worried about death/dying
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Cheeseismyweakness · 27/07/2013 22:00
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