How should one explain death to little kids…aged 2,4 & 5.
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*tell them that the humans are like batteries...once their power is used up, they just die out like the batteries do. *
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I think niki baaji or someone else started this topic a few weeks ago..
There were some nice replies...
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my dada died when I was 4 years old and I was very much loved by him my family just told me that he is gone to Allah mian's ghar forever and now he is going to live with him.
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Tell them the truth, because when they grow up and find out from someone else.
It wont be nice.
-DP
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Isnt working for my bhateejes n cousins...bhateeji isnt eating kuch...keeps crying mostly asking where he(my bro) is...
And lil csn sis who understands no one comes back Allah k paas se...says she wants to go Allah k paas so tht she can be with my bro
How to explain to these kids ?
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^ i’m so sorry for your loss 
this is a fantastic dicussion on the topic- http://www.thesilverpen.com/2012/01/12/caring-for-children-when-a-parent-dies/
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when my parents passed away, my children were quite young, the twins were about to turn 3 and my eldest a month away from turning 5, and i struggled with how to explain it to them. i did not want them to attend my mother’s namaz-e-janaza at the masjid because i thought it might to tramautic and confusing, but my husband and family disagreed. my husband kept my oldest son with him in the front line of the janaza, right behind the coffin. he explained to him that nani’s body was in there, and that we were saying goodbye, because Allah called her spirit back. my husband had him place his hand on the coffin and recite shahadah. we did not take him to the cemetary for the tadfeen, but a few months later, we all went as a family and explained it again to the children. I have always told my boys that even though they cannot physically see nana & nani anymore, they can always still speak to them in their hearts. it took a while for the concept to really sink in. at first, my oldest just assumed that nani was still sick, so that’s why he couldn’t see her, then he thought she was out of town, and finally he just got down right angry as to why he couldn’t go to her house anymore or whys he wasn’t coming over.
it was agonizing, but eventually, he started to understand. my twins don’t really remember, because they were so young, but with the older one, there still is not a day that goes by that he doesn’t mention his nana & nani, or how much he misses them… 
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^ :(