I am really proud of how compassionate he is. It isn't that I don't appreciate his feelings, I just want to help him handle these situations better.
We catch and release insects in our house and I am glad he isn't the type of kid that enjoys killing things.
I want to give him some ideas on how to handle it in the future. I don't think a crying fit helps his case.
I did get a chance to talk about it before bed. He has come up with an interesting plan. He is going to hit up his older buddy who is a talented scary story writer to collaborate on a story about a boy who enjoys killing bugs and ends up being haunted and driven crazy by the ghosts of the bugs he killed. He hopes to scare the bug squisher into stopping.
