When my oldest daughter was 5 she found a recently killed dead bunny in our yard and brought it to me. “Look Daddy, can you fix it?” So I agree that young children that age don’t understand death.
Oh how very sad and sweet. Great example too of how children do not understand death. Too bad you couldn’t fix the poor lil’ guy (or gal) bunny. :-(
I agree, and trying to explain it to them could probably do as much harm as it does good. It could easily cause them to adopt an attitude of fear concerning death at that early age.
I would certainly hope that some well meaning classroom materials related to childhood suicide wasn’t in some way partially contributory to this.
When one of granddaughters was about that age they found her bunny dead in his cage...her answer was ***he’s not dead he’s just lazy****
She is in college and we still sometimes chuckle when we talk about some of the things our children and grandchildren say.....