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To: freedumb2003

When my youngest was about five, she drew a few pictures of dead people and animals with Xs for eyes. I think she even drew Jesus this way. She sees the crucifix in church every Sunday - maybe that was the year she really took in the reason for Easter.

The drawings did look creepy and took me aback. But I knew she was a stable healthy child and she was just using a convention or a stereotype - like the sky being a blue line across the top of the page - because that’s the way children draw.

Somewhere between four and eight is when children start to get the concept of death and it’s a big concept to deal with. Not surprising they draw it sometimes.


15 posted on 12/15/2009 6:19:41 PM PST by heartwood
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To: heartwood
Somewhere between four and eight is when children start to get the concept of death and it’s a big concept to deal with.

My grandson was four when he asked if we could go in a rocket ship to visit with Jesus up in heaven.

38 posted on 12/15/2009 6:56:21 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (:: The government will do for health care what it did for real estate. ::)
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