Those poor kids. But what a legacy...
Posted on 09/07/2006 8:53:29 PM PDT by naturalman1975
CROCODILE Hunter Steve Irwin's widow has revealed her fears about raising their two young children alone and how their toddler son pines for his father.
Terri Irwin's mother Julie Raines said today Steve Irwin's shock death had been "very hard" on his family.
Mrs Raines said her two-year-old grandson Robert kept asking his mother "where's Daddy?"
But Mrs Raines said eight-year-old granddaughter Bindi, who has made regular TV appearances with her father, had been "a rock" for Terri.
Mr Irwin, 44, died on Monday after he was pierced in the heart by the barb of a stingray while filming a documentary off Port Douglas in north Queensland.
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Those poor kids. But what a legacy...
Death is hard. I still grieve daily for my brother who died young.
Death is a part of life.
Gosh. That cartoon is something, and true. The whole family will feel pretty duty bound to continue all Steven's passions. I hope they love life as well.
Lil Bob-Bob.....what a heartbreaker
He made a real difference by being so loved by his family - that is the greatest measure of success; all the rest is gravy.
Grabs you, doesn't it? What's in the backgroung? It looks like faded blocked letters.
That would be the other side of the paper. Clearly this has been scanned.
It looks like a scanned newspaper, it's probably whatever was on the back side.
(sheepish grin)
Teary-eyed ping.
Appears to be some type of water mark.
Yes, it's the other side of the paper.
For anyone who is anal like me and would spend hours trying to work out what it says, it's "Doing A Deal With Parents" - headline on an article about getting parents of troublesome teens to sign contracts agreeing to control their kids.
1) Don't let the kids see their father dead (e.g., at a wake). Let them remember him alive.
2) Make sure the kids know their dad didn't leave them on purpose and loved them.
3) Don't lie to them
It's not anal any more. The PC term is detailed.:')
I agree - I lost both my parents within days of each other when I was nine, and it was handled very badly. Nobody would talk about it, so I (wrongly) decided my mother had killed herself out of grief for my father - and I felt so abandoned.
They will be ok.
Oh my God, that cartoon hit me like a ton of bricks. Very powerful. I think Bindi will & can carry on Steve's legacy.
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