Deep Thoughts

There are so many conversations that you just don't think about having with your little ones.  Everyone always jokes about the first time  you have to tell them where babies come from, blah blah blah.  But seriously, sometimes I feel like there needs to be a manual on all the other conversations that you didn't think about them asking.  Course I'm sure even then no one would hit on all of them.  It's like we know about a lot of them that are going to happen, we just never think twice about planning for them.  Well I got to have another one of those conversations in the car today with Kinsleigh on the way to a friends house.  We passed by a huge cemetery on the way there and she saw all the flowers all over the ground so of course she got interested and needed to know what it all was.  Not sure if we've just never happened to pass right by one before with her in the car or what, but it has at least never been of interest until today.

My response more or less: "Well, that place is called a cemetery.  You know how Mommy and Daddy have told you before that everything dies?  Well that is a place that when people die, when they are very old or extremely sick, (no need for more elaborate details), they bury them in the ground to keep their bodies safe.  But remember, if you have Jesus in your heart, your soul in the inside gets to go to heaven to live with Him forever.  But your body has to stay here, so other people like their friends and family that love them very much, put them in the ground. Then everybody gets to decorate where they are really nice with flowers to make them beautiful because they are special."

Phew, I hate having to give such "deep" explanations on the fly.  I sure hope I did alright.  It's quite difficult to explain such a heavy topic to a 3 year old without making it sound scary.  Hopefully now she can see it as more of a happy place ???

What other difficult conversations have you had to have with your children that you never even thought of considering or just simply weren't prepared for?