Just been for a walk along the canal with my ds and we saw the RNLI lifeboat on the water. At first i thought that maybe they were just on a training exercise, but as we got further along, we saw all the coastguards and the police cars.
Spoke to a couple that we passed and they said they were looking for a young boy aged approx 12 who had gone into the water.
My ds who is 6 & 1/2 said to me "its okay mum because they will find him wont they?" so i decided that i needed to be honest with him to explain just how dangerous the water is and told him that they would be looking for the little boys body and that he had died and he wouldnt be able to come back to life again.
I just kept
my ds and thinking what someone poor mum & dad are going through right now
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Spoke to a couple that we passed and they said they were looking for a young boy aged approx 12 who had gone into the water.
My ds who is 6 & 1/2 said to me "its okay mum because they will find him wont they?" so i decided that i needed to be honest with him to explain just how dangerous the water is and told him that they would be looking for the little boys body and that he had died and he wouldnt be able to come back to life again.
I just kept
my ds and thinking what someone poor mum & dad are going through right nowxx
That is sad, I would have expleined it in exactly the same way to DS
He might not be dead- he might have just wandered off somewhere. IMHO I don't think I would have been so 'conclusive' about the little boy being dead. 
