Comments on: Can’t Believe - or definitions of Death http://claus.castelodelego.org/archives/398 Claus' little corner on the net Sun, 20 May 2012 01:40:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Claus http://claus.castelodelego.org/archives/398#comment-9335 Claus Mon, 09 Oct 2006 06:38:10 +0000 http://claus.castelodelego.org/archives/398#comment-9335 Hey, Chaminda, Pamela; Chaminda, I reread the article, and it seems you're right... it was a 6th grader (12, 13 years), not a 6 year old kid. I need to brush up my newspaper reading skills :-(. Actually, it is the very same incident related on Pamela's link. However, when I talk about "has no idea of what death is", I'm not talking about experience, or temperance, or understanding the consequences to yourself and to others, but really the basic understanding of the concept of death. Like my mother said in her comment in portuguese, she was once told that telling a very young child that you may die if you fall from the window has no effect, because the child doesn't really know what death means. She was then told that a more effective manner to teach young children the risks of playing near windows was showing them what happens with a glass cup falling, and teaching them that the same thing happens to people who fall from windows. ... Maybe that's why I'm afraid of heights, perhaps? ;-) (j/k) Hey, Chaminda, Pamela;

Chaminda, I reread the article, and it seems you’re right… it was a 6th grader (12, 13 years), not a 6 year old kid. I need to brush up my newspaper reading skills :-(. Actually, it is the very same incident related on Pamela’s link.

However, when I talk about “has no idea of what death is”, I’m not talking about experience, or temperance, or understanding the consequences to yourself and to others, but really the basic understanding of the concept of death.

Like my mother said in her comment in portuguese, she was once told that telling a very young child that you may die if you fall from the window has no effect, because the child doesn’t really know what death means. She was then told that a more effective manner to teach young children the risks of playing near windows was showing them what happens with a glass cup falling, and teaching them that the same thing happens to people who fall from windows.

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Maybe that’s why I’m afraid of heights, perhaps? ;-) (j/k)

]]> By: Pamela http://claus.castelodelego.org/archives/398#comment-9312 Pamela Sun, 08 Oct 2006 23:39:35 +0000 http://claus.castelodelego.org/archives/398#comment-9312 not entirely the same, but an article on precisly this same issue and in english: http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200610040130.html not entirely the same, but an article on precisly this same issue and in english: http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200610040130.html

]]> By: mom http://claus.castelodelego.org/archives/398#comment-9300 mom Sun, 08 Oct 2006 17:14:35 +0000 http://claus.castelodelego.org/archives/398#comment-9300 concordo contigo... nao vejo como uma criança de 06 anos possa entender que o conceito de morte. Lembro mesmo que li em algum lugar que o suicidio de criança se dá especialmente pela falta de entendimento da morte, especialmente de sua irreversibilidade. Uma coisa interessante que aprendi com alguem, quando voces eram criancas. Conversando sobre morar em prédio, e a questao da altura, essa pessoa falou que nao era bom dizer algo tipo "se voce cair da janela morre". Porque o que as crianças normalmente ouvem é que quem morre, vai para "papai do ceu" ou "vira anjo"; o que, para a criança, nao é nada mal nao? entao, nessa mesma conversa, a pessoa me disse para dizer algo mais concreto, tipo "se voce cai, quebra todinho, que nem um copo", e de preferencia, quebrar um copo para voces verem. Fiz isso e tu e teu irmao Abriram um olho GIGANTE; e nunca tiveram interesse em subir janelas. bjs concordo contigo… nao vejo como uma criança de 06 anos possa entender que o conceito de morte. Lembro mesmo que li em algum lugar que o suicidio de criança se dá especialmente pela falta de entendimento da morte, especialmente de sua irreversibilidade. Uma coisa interessante que aprendi com alguem, quando voces eram criancas.
Conversando sobre morar em prédio, e a questao da altura, essa pessoa falou que nao era bom dizer algo tipo “se voce cair da janela morre”. Porque o que as crianças normalmente ouvem é que quem morre, vai para “papai do ceu” ou “vira anjo”; o que, para a criança, nao é nada mal nao?
entao, nessa mesma conversa, a pessoa me disse para dizer algo mais concreto, tipo “se voce cai, quebra todinho, que nem um copo”, e de preferencia, quebrar um copo para voces verem. Fiz isso e tu e teu irmao Abriram um olho GIGANTE; e nunca tiveram interesse em subir janelas.

bjs

]]> By: Chaminda http://claus.castelodelego.org/archives/398#comment-9202 Chaminda Sat, 07 Oct 2006 04:39:19 +0000 http://claus.castelodelego.org/archives/398#comment-9202 Is it 6 years old, or primary 6th year? I think by the age one is in primary 6th, there is some idea of death. But still,....... not so much I guess. Is it 6 years old, or primary 6th year? I think by the age one is in primary 6th, there is some idea of death. But still,……. not so much I guess.

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