If I was in WW2, they'd call me spitfire! ([info]becka_mouse) wrote in [info]geekparents,
2008-02-20 08:35:00
Quite recently, I had to explain death to my three year old. My grandmother lost her battle with cancer and when my daughter noticed 'grandmom-mommy' wasn't at her house, Maniac asked questions.


The conversation went as follows.

*maniac* "Where's grandmom-mommy?"

*me* (pause to think) "Grandmom-mommy is in heaven playing games with God."

*maniac* (pauses) "Grandmom-mommy is dead?"

*me, surprised she figured that out* "Um..."

*maniac before I can answer* "She gonna be a nombie?" (nombie = zombie)

Might I add that she also looked quite intrigued with the idea of Nombie Grandmom-mommy?


No more Shawn of the Dead for her.

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[info]danaewinters

February 20 2008, 17:07:57 UTC 4 years ago

Oh wow...yeah, death is hard enough to explain to little kids, much less when they come up with theories like that. I relate though...I had to explain what cancer was to my six-year old, and she's decided that her aunt (who died of it last year) was going to be reincarnated and come back to play with her someday. I guess that's a better theory than zombie-auntie (and less likely to freak out the relatives when she says it).

[info]becka_mouse

February 20 2008, 17:32:10 UTC 4 years ago

There's a part of me that finds it neat she put all that together herself. Then there's another part of me thats headdesking at what she put together.

I'm very glad none of my relatives heard her piece that together.

[info]ifeedformula

February 21 2008, 04:19:28 UTC 4 years ago

First off, I'm sorry for your loss. *hugs*
Second--Wow. That's a pretty big leap for such a little squirt. I'd be headdesking at what she put together too, in your place. But the idea of a zombie grandmother is, you gotta admit, intriguing to say the least. :)

[info]becka_mouse

February 21 2008, 18:15:34 UTC 4 years ago

She said it before the funeral and in our family we do a viewing and funeral all in one day so I was sitting there keeping one eye on grandmom the entire time.

[info]ifeedformula

February 22 2008, 12:26:34 UTC 4 years ago

Ah that explains it. *nods*

[info]daphnejocas

July 13 2008, 10:49:39 UTC 3 years ago

None of my relatives as photographed (in Lonya's book) who died thanks to Hitler resembled a paperclip, or a centimeter of shoelace.

[info]becka_mouse

July 13 2008, 14:32:25 UTC 3 years ago

hmmm?

[info]heatherexyru

July 16 2008, 00:22:50 UTC 3 years ago

None of my relatives as photographed (in Lonya's book) who died thanks to Hitler resembled a paperclip, or a centimeter of shoelace.

[info]geekmiztrezz

February 20 2008, 21:42:15 UTC 4 years ago

I love the way kids think.

[info]becka_mouse

February 20 2008, 23:05:52 UTC 4 years ago

I do, too. It made me giggle when she came up with the whole Zombie Grandmom thing.

It was the kind of giggle that stayed with you all day and each time you thought about it it'd still make you snerk.

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[info]becka_mouse

February 21 2008, 15:48:03 UTC 4 years ago

It made me laugh my tail off. I had my mom ask me what was so funny and I couldn't tell her.

[info]erickavaxeg

July 16 2008, 02:06:31 UTC 3 years ago

  My mom picked me up after school.   My twin had piano.   At her piano teachers house, we saw her puppies.

[info]vivianidyku

July 16 2008, 03:11:32 UTC 3 years ago

  My mom picked me up after school.   My twin had piano.   At her piano teachers house, we saw her puppies.

[info]dsmoen

February 25 2008, 11:57:42 UTC 4 years ago

After his father had a stroke (and was dead, though he couldn't be declared dead yet, but that's another story), father's youngest son said, "Will they freeze daddy like they did on TV?"

No more cryogenic specials for the tyke.

(He's an adult now, seems to have turned out okay.)

[info]cherylobady

July 15 2008, 05:51:20 UTC 3 years ago

"These airplanes on may have seemed to have come out of a clear blue sky but, in fact, these monstrous mosquitoes flew out of a swamp of bitterness and hatred and anger which exists in the Muslim world (because of) the injustice of western policy," Galloway said.

[info]supershrinkme

July 16 2008, 03:48:26 UTC 3 years ago

I'm sorry for your loss, but dang that is cute! Kids sure do say the silliest things. That one definitely made me laugh : )

[info]cmariewt

July 16 2008, 20:45:44 UTC 3 years ago

"She gonna be a nombie?"

Cutest reaction to death ever.

[info]becka_mouse

July 16 2008, 20:57:50 UTC 3 years ago

And it was said as though she was asking "Hey mom? is it raining?"
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