In case of the death of the relative or other situation when the child can face a concept about death, can be rather complex to explain him a phenomenon essence. In this case advice of the psychologist can help parents.
Instruction
1. Answer questions of death in process of their emergence. So you will be able to give the child so much information how many it is necessary for it and how many he is able to apprehend.
2. If you treat any religious faith, your task becomes simpler - explain for the child death according to postulates of your belief. However and in this case it is necessary to adapt information to children's perception. The two-three-year-old child can hardly really understand what is paradise, hell and the Last Judgement. To it there will be enough explanation that the relative went to the sky. Also even the preschool child can already present the idea about immortality of soul in the sense that he will be able to meet the dead in the sky in many years when itself grows old.
3. In case you do not adhere to any religion, explain to the child value of death through the facts. For example, that the dead does not breathe any more, does not move. That is explain that death is the end of life.
4. Carefully you treat an explanation of causes of death of the person. If someone died of a disease, it is possible to report about it to the child, but with specification that it was very severe disease, and problems with health, habitual for the child, for example, cold, do not threaten with death.
5. At emergence in the child of fear of death tell it that most often people die very old and after serious diseases. At the same time it is not necessary to claim that the child and parents are immortal. For the preschool child the explanation that all die has to become quite calming, but it and parents will live still very long, it is a lot of decades. For the school student it is possible to connect fear of death with various forms of destructive behavior. For example, it is possible to explain that the person who does not smoke and does not drink, crosses the road on green light and does not talk to strangers on the street risks life much less and, most likely, will live long in a healthy state.