DD3.5 has started to ask questions about death, how should we approach them? For example yesterday she asked my mom if she is old, she said yes (compared to her, she is only 59), immediately DD asked if she is going to die. I do not know where she got it from, she used a non-english word for death so she could not even get it from her friends. She also stopped eating meat and fish. She has seen my mom cooking fish and was really worried if the fish was still hurting.
I never thought I would have a 3 year old vegetarian.
We've dealt with this to some extent. DD (2 years old) was very curious the other day if the eggs she was going to eat had babies inside of them because she didn't want to eat babies (we assured her they did not have babies). She also knows that eggs come from chickens and has asked if the eggs hurt the chicken when we eat them (ironically she has no problem eating chicken itself...).
We also have discussed death at least in respect to extinction because she is constantly afraid that T-Rex is going to come and eat her. We basically said that T-Rex went to sleep and never woke up again and now he only exists at museums and in books (and that he's stuck in books and can't come out).
Also in regards to meat she's very concerned about other animals eating her so I *think* she gets that we eat animals but just not that we're the predators. We've also discussed the difference between carnivores/omnivores/herbivores and somehow she's decided that the herbivores=good and carnivores=bad (we never implied that). So basically she's still a pretty confused child at this point.
