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What to do when your child says they wish they were never born?
What we can say when children say “I wish I was dead”
- Try not to panic.
- Don’t tell them off or get cross at them – empathise instead.
- Take time to find out thoughts and reasons for their distress.
- Try to help them to express their feelings in other ways.
- Check on safety.
- Consider Getting help.
Why do kids wish you were dead?
“I wish I was dead” thoughts are often about children telling us they feel really distressed – and this is the only way they can fully express their feelings.
Is it normal for a 6 year old to say I hate my life?
In fact, it is pretty unusual for children to make such dramatic comments. Even among adolescents, the most dramatic of all young people, such comments can be a sign of trouble.
Why do parents wish their children had never been born?
Citing reasons from sleep deprivation to financial security – and ‘not liking kids’ – some go as far as confessing they wish their offspring had never been born. Posting anonymously on sites like Facebook, Reddit and Quora, disgruntled parents have made startling confessions and described parenthood as ‘drudgery and monotony’
Why do some women wish they hadn’t had kids?
Posting anonymously on sites like Facebook, Reddit and Quora, the disgruntled women have made startling confessions describing parenthood as ‘drudgery and monotony’. Citing reasons from sleep deprivation to financial security – and ‘not liking kids’ – some go as far as confessing they wish their offspring had never been born.
Why did my mum tell me not to have kids?
The former air hostess added: ‘My mum told me not to get married and not to have kids’ A heartwrenching confession came from the mother to a two-year-old whose lack of sleep had forced her mother to miss work – before suffering a panic attack and a ‘meltdown’
Why do people never want to have kids?
One of the few men to comment on the page told how he had found himself with two children he never wanted and was in the process of divorcing his wife. In a brutally honest post, he wrote: ‘I really don’t like kids and I hate having them during my weekends.