A Death in the Family

Ben has a pretty strong reaction when he finds out someone has died, even if the death occurred decades ago. Here are a few recent examples. The day after we got back from California, I was driving Ben home from school. He cried out, "Why did he have to die, I never got to meet him!" This, of course, refers to Ronald Reagan and came two days after visiting his library. Last night, we were talking about my grandpa and I told Ben that he had died. Ben starts crying and says, "I don't even know what he looks like!" A trip to the computer solved that problem fast. Now, Ben needed something new to cry about. "I...I...I don't know what he sounds like!" Thanks to an audio recording from 1975 that I had made a digital copy of, that problem was solved quickly too. Since Ben ran out of things to cry about, he went to his room and got a book for story time.