How do you tell your children what death is? My child had asked me this question before, and I didn't know how to explain it or if she understood my explanation. Indeed, death is not just about leaving the world, how do we teach our children to face death, to face the life and death of their loved ones? Until I saw this picture book story "A Tanuki accompanied his mother to the top of the mountain to watch the sunset", this story uses warm words to tell death, telling children that life and death are what everyone will encounter, and although the loved ones have died, they will always remain in our hearts!
This holiday season, I want to tell this story to you and the kids!
A tanuki accompanied her mother to the top of the mountain to watch the sunset, and the sunset painted the whole world gold, and the whole mountain range radiated with brilliance. The wind at the top of the mountain was a little strong, but it was warm around Mom.
Mom said, "If one day I die, I'm going to be buried here." Ah Tanuki raised his small face and did not understand: "What is death?" Mom thought about it and replied, "This is really a difficult question to answer, you can understand it as the meaning of temporarily leaving." Little Beaver asked, "How long will it take to come back?" Mom tilted her head and said, "Maybe for a long time." ”
Ahu: "Oh... I'll go to bed and take a nap, and you'll be back, right? Mom smiled and shook her head.
Ahu: "I made the train of the town, from the first stop to the last stop, and you came back, right?" Mom smiled and shook her head.
Ah Tanuki: "Then wait until I obediently listen to you and clean up the house, and you will come back?" Mom smiled and shook her head.
Ah Tanuki: "Then when it snows in winter, you will come back, you said that you have to knit me a hat every winter?" Mom smiled and shook her head.
Ah Tanuki: "Then when the little tree I planted grows into a big tree, you will come back, right?" Mom smiled and shook her head.
Ah Tanuki was anxious: "Mom, when will you be able to come back?" The mother smiled: "My stupid child, no matter how long you sleep in the world, you can wait until you wake up; no matter how long you travel, you can wait until the end point arrives; no matter how cold the winter, you can wait until the time of the past; but only death, but the farther you wait!" ”
The little beaver seemed to understand a little, and it cried loudly: "Then I will never see you again, I don't want it, I don't want it!" The mother quickly hugged the little beaver: "No, if one day, I die, although you can no longer hear my voice, never see me again, but you will feel that I am quietly accompanying you!" I look at you quietly from the kitchen window when you're in the back garden; I make you a sweater in the bedroom when you're in the kitchen; I read the newspaper in the living room when you're in the bedroom; I sort out my lilies in the back garden when you're in the living room. You can't see me, but I've never been far from you, my little beaver, you know I love you forever! ”
So, at that dusk, the little beaver who didn't understand it suddenly felt some sadness and happiness