Religion’s giving you major issues (and that’s before you start asking your parents/grandparents about their different beliefs) and you had avoided the whole issue of Jesus until starting school, but now that you know about him, you’ve been a tad curiosity in how he can be born every year but is also dead.
Of course, being five, you are also totally obsessed with death (what is it with five year olds and death? Does the Scottish teaching curriculum have lessons on gothery or something?).
Anyway, there was some mirth the other day when you told me that you thought you had worked out what had happened to Jesus.
“Daaaaaad, you know you said that Jesus was killed on the cross because he annoyed some people? Was he put on the naughty cross? And they forgot to bring him down so he could say sorry so he dead?”*
(*if you aren’t a parent, you won’t get this. It’s a play on the naughty step concept devised by Supernanny)
And I tell you, if nothing else, it’s given me some thoughts for how to do a new take on a kid’s version of the bible…
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