Just wondering how others deal with this. Ds is 5, dd is 4, and they play together I think unusually nicely - get into detailed imaginative scenarios, co-operating well, don't need anyone to referee their play. But I'm just overhearing "yes, and I died, and then I came back to life again, and then you died" "no, you were only sleeping" "no, I really died, but then I did come alive" (etc).
What do you say, or would you intervene at all? I tried something like "let's not talk about dying" or "you do know that death means something is finished, don't you?" but they weren't convinced. (By the way, they haven't any immediate experience of people/animals they know dying.)
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Have we had this one? - playing games about dying
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binkie · 15/01/2005 12:54
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