"Mom, will you get old?" She asked curiously.
"Mom, what about dad? Will he be old? Will he die? " She continued to ask.
"Yes, everyone will die when they are old. This is also normal. " I didn't think much.
? The next night, she still asked this question. I heard from her voice that she was unhappy, and then she said, "Mom, I'm afraid." Oh, so the child is afraid that we will leave her. I still don't understand a child's heart. So, I thought of picture books.
The two of us sat on the sofa together and read The Badger's Gift. Badger is a warm-hearted person and a trustworthy friend. He taught the mole to cut out a long string of paper hand in hand from a piece of paper, taught the frog to skate, taught the fox to tie a tie and taught the rabbit to make gingerbread ... But he grew old day by day, and he knew this day would come, so he wrote a letter to his friends, telling them not to be too sad and went to the long underground tunnel by themselves. Yes, Badger left a parting gift for every friend, and they can keep it forever. With these gifts, they can help each other. Although this is the ultimate story about life, what it brings us is not cold and terrible, but it makes people feel comfortable and warm to read, and the children are not afraid, and they are also very calm about life and death and no longer afraid. When my daughter and I finished reading this story, she pointed to the cover and told me that badger gave gifts to every animal. This is a good story. Although it is not long, it is memorable for adults and children to read.
I can't answer my daughter's ultimate question in life, but I know there are people smarter than me in the world. My mother and I read the Secret under the Chestnut Tree again. This book tells the story of a squirrel who was so old that his beard turned gray and lay cold in the pine forest. Ricky, the ear-folding rabbit, thought the squirrel was asleep, and he covered the squirrel with leaves to avoid catching cold. Ricky's friend Annie thought the squirrel was ill, so she took it home and asked her parents to help save the little squirrel. Mom told Ricky, the rabbit with folded ears, that the little squirrel was old and dead, and he went to squirrel heaven. It may be a place where squirrels were born, a place full of happiness. Annie said that in squirrel paradise, squirrels will never feel pain again.
Later, the rabbit family buried the squirrel. At the end of the story, the beautiful orange light flashed among the branches, a little squirrel hopped on the tree and slowly disappeared into the depths of the forest ... The daughter who was sitting on the sofa reading stood up and smiled, "Mom, the squirrel is alive again! ……”
? I didn't expose the truth, because this is the beauty in the child's heart. Let's not destroy it. When she grows up, she will naturally understand.
After reading the two short stories, I don't have to waste my breath, and the child doesn't ask any more questions. Maybe her world already has her own answer.
Little book world, little story and great truth!