Children's+Earliest+Experiences+with+Death.+Circumstances,+Conversations,+Explanations,+and+Parental+Satisfaction.

Children’s Earliest Experiences with Death: Circumstances, Conversations, Explanations, and Parental Satisfaction. In this article, parents with children ages 7 and under took a survey on how their child has interacted with the idea of death. Most parents provide their children with an explanation of death by age 3 and these explanations usually are more geared towards the parents satisfaction of their child’s understanding. Parents who explained death along side religion and included the idea of after life were more satisfied with their explanations and child’s understanding than those parents who didn't mention life after death. The overall consensus was that when parents are introducing the subject of death to children they often feel better with the idea of continued life after death rather than breaking down the science of life and death.

This article is useful to my area of study because I am interested to see how the parents are worried about sugar coating death in order to make everyone feel comfortable about the situation. This article shows that this happens often instead of a more blunt, truthful, harsh explanation. A parents input will without a doubt have a huge effect on a child's perception and overall ideas on death.

Renaud, Sarah-Jane, et al. "Children's Earliest Experiences With Death: Circumstances, Conversations, Explanations, And Parental Satisfaction." Infant & Child Development 24.2 (2015): 157. Advanced Placement Source. Web. 16 June 2016.

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