How to explain death of a sibling to a child born after the older brother has died?
First let me say that I am so sorry that you lost your son. I have the view from the child being told prospective. I was around 5 or 6 years old when I found out that I had had an older sister who died after only 24 hours. You could start showing pictures and telling your younger child sooner, of course. Your situation is a little different since my family had no pictures of my older sister Erica to show us being that it was so quick and none of the very first photos ever come out. My mother just sat all of us down one day and got out a small keepsake box she had with everything form Erica she had and told us all about her. She cried. We listened. But I was always glad I had known at least something about her. It may sound strange, but as a child hearing about my older sister that I would never meet, I promised my mom that I would name my first child after her. I had a boy first, so I named him Eric. I would just tell your younger child all about his older brother. You may cry, but tha
