My DD has had to deal with the matters of death from a very early age of 16 months. Her great-grandmother, whom she was very close to, passed away. And even though she was only 16 months, she seemed to get it. But she really didn't link it to her own mortality until around 3 when we lost our cat. She linked the death of the cat to the death of her 'Nana' and started questioned herself. We treated it very matter of fact and I was honest with her. She still brings up death but when she does we take the time to talk about it.
Oh ... we had a fish in the middle of that which DD actually killed by trying to hug. We didn't replace it and haven't talked about it since, but about a month ago she brought it up and talked about flushing it down the toilet. She also talked about trying to feed it the whole can of food and hugging it, arguing that she knows better now and would like to have another fish. My mouth still drops open with what that kid remembers. Does anyone else have a young one that seems to remember all the little details about events that happened before and around age two?
