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<blockquote data-quote="Big Bad Kitty" data-source="post: 79638" data-attributes="member: 3647"><p>I am going to think out loud.</p><p></p><p>First, I agree with WFEN that there is no right or wrong answer. Miss Manners never wrote out etiquette on that. It depends on a case by case basis.</p><p></p><p>You have 2 difficult child girls. A 3 year old easy child is probably not capable of understanding the finality of death and may be further confused by a funeral or a wake. Wakes are creepy for little kids. My older daughter was 12 when she came to my brother in law's wake. Her take on it then was that he looked like a doll, and that she was afraid that he was going to jump up and surprise everyone.</p><p></p><p>Ok, now the 6 year old, who is a carbon copy of Tink. It is going to be a difficult thing to explain it to her. If you bring her, you may very well have one obsessed little girl on your hands.</p><p></p><p>That is not to say that any of this is wrong. Some kids work through things better this way. </p><p></p><p>And I could be way off. I was just musing. In your shoes, I might try to explain death to them in a somewhat matter of fact way, and encourage them to draw gramma a picture. See if it can be put in the casket with her.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Big Bad Kitty, post: 79638, member: 3647"] I am going to think out loud. First, I agree with WFEN that there is no right or wrong answer. Miss Manners never wrote out etiquette on that. It depends on a case by case basis. You have 2 difficult child girls. A 3 year old easy child is probably not capable of understanding the finality of death and may be further confused by a funeral or a wake. Wakes are creepy for little kids. My older daughter was 12 when she came to my brother in law's wake. Her take on it then was that he looked like a doll, and that she was afraid that he was going to jump up and surprise everyone. Ok, now the 6 year old, who is a carbon copy of Tink. It is going to be a difficult thing to explain it to her. If you bring her, you may very well have one obsessed little girl on your hands. That is not to say that any of this is wrong. Some kids work through things better this way. And I could be way off. I was just musing. In your shoes, I might try to explain death to them in a somewhat matter of fact way, and encourage them to draw gramma a picture. See if it can be put in the casket with her. [/QUOTE]
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