My toddler wants her daddy to die when she's mad at him
I told her that if daddy dies, we will never see him again. She started crying because I wouldn't make her daddy die.
Parenting
<p>Toddlers don't have the intellectual capacity to conceptualize.</p><p>Better to find out why she wants daddy to die than explain the future consequences of death to your toddler.</p><p>A person must be around 9, possibly 8 years old before absorbing the potential effects of an action taken in present time.</p><p>Pretty much your toddler demonstrated to you here age appropriate and limited understanding of the loss of a parent, by crying that you weren't able to magically make her father disappear.</p><p>Also, please pay attention and form your own opinions as to the reasons why your toddler would wish her father's death.</p><p>She may be pointing out that the father behaves in frightening or harmful ways towards her.</p>