In our discussion today, I was glad to listen to all of the different opinions about how parents should tell their children, if they should tell them, about death and what happens afterwards.
Personally, I feel as though you should inform the child if and when they ask "what happens to people when they die?" By telling them that they go to heaven, they will have that idea in their heads, but as the kids grow older they may or may not start to believe in something else. Every child is different, but I feel as if a parent should let them know that haven does exist and that people go there when they die, but a child's imagination will go off from there which is the interesting and beautiful part. Like the film, many children believe in many different things. As the child grows faithfully, they will believe what they feel, but in the end, I feel like parents cannot force their kids into believing something at such a young age because sometimes they simply cannot wrap their heads around it, being so young still. As the kids grow into their teen years they will believe what they feel more so than what they hear. As a person grows emotionally and physically God works with you by letting you feel him in your heart, body, mind, and soul.
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