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Age to take child to funeral?



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ny21




 
 
    
 

Post Fri, Oct 20 2006, 12:15 pm
a funeral?
if it was a close friend of the family?
woudl you take them just to the services
and not to the cemetary.?
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mom3boys




 
 
    
 

Post Fri, Oct 20 2006, 12:27 pm
Unless it's a funeral of a very close family member I wouldn't take my kids. Maybe once they are teenagers, but it would depend on their relationship to the deceased
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lubcoralsprings




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Oct 25 2006, 5:33 pm
I don't think kids or even teenagers belong at a funeral. I think it is for adults. They just don't have an understanding of what it is and it's too depressing for them.
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ny21




 
 
    
 

Post Fri, Oct 27 2006, 7:49 am
infants were at the cemetary at the funeral that I went to

four year old child used the shovel to put earth over the grave. Crying
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ChavieK




 
 
    
 

Post Fri, Oct 27 2006, 11:49 am
I took my boys 7 & 9 to my fil's levaya, but not to the k'vurah. They asked to go.We were at the cemetary but women don't go to the actual kvurah so they waited with us.I had to take my baby b/c we were gone all day ( we had to travel to NY & back home again) but my teenage neice came with my bro to babysit. That said, in general kids shouldn't go.I asked my 7yr old rebbi what to do. He knew the relationship b/t my kids & zaidy. Aside from that type of relationship think about what they will sit through.
Are there going to be a lot of hespedim? Can they sit that long? It's like a lot of other events that is depenant on the maturity of the child & their ability to sit.
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