"Dead people lie in bed with Jesus"

[threebob]

Apparently my MIL told this pearl of wisdom to ds (3), apart from the fact that he pronounced it "cheeses". It made him scared to go to bed for a week (and we didn't know why - but now it all fits) and then would only go to bed with a million teddy bears in - presumably so Jesus couldn't fit in as well.

I promised myself I would never use the "went to sleep for a long time" line and now my silly MIL has completely failed to explain death.

Its awful when people explain things...."wrong". I remember being told only baptised babies go to heaven, and right up until my own DS was baptised, when I was told they do go to heaven aswell, I got really upset by it.

I've got dh onto it, stressing that it's not the Jesus thing, it's the bed thing.

I DO wish people would think before opening their mouth!

Is he OK now?

I hate this kind of thing, both sickly sentimental and scarey.

Ds is fine, but I didn't like the way it was presented as a fact by him. I mean my MIL has never seen anyone in bed with Jesus, unless she meant a coffin - which is just horrible.

sorry but wouldn't that make your mil rather a lot older than what she ahs been telling everyon if she was able to present it as "fact"?

thanks, that cheered me up!

how are things today?

They are good now - we were going to buy ds a new matress anyway when we got an estate car to bring it home in - and so new mattress has been purchased and this one apprently does not have Jesus in it!