Children and Worldviews: Victoria's story
The Children and Worldviews Project explores qualitative, narrative methods to investigate the worldviews of children, that is, the way in which they make sense of their experiences and matters which are of particular importance to them.
Victoria's story
I think that in heaven you can ride a white pony and have marshmallows. Before my Nan died she told me lots of things because she knew she was going to die and she told me all about the things she was going to do and she said she was going to send me a postcard. She said she would be happy and she wanted me to be happy when she died.
On that day she got a picture of her and all the family, stuck it on a postcard and wrote on the back, "I'll see you in your heart". Now she's always with me. Now I talk to her all the time. I talk to her when I'm lonely. When I've argued with my friends I go and sit on the wall and think about her and talk to her. When I get fed up I sit there and talk to her about my friends. She tells me that she's riding on things. She says she's having a really nice time. She says she's going to ring me up. She says things in my head, she rings up my brain and talks to me. When she went up in heaven she took one of her special secrets. She took it with her and she can just ring me up, its clever. This special secret makes her able to do that.
I keep on wanting to tell people things but they don't understand. I know everyone's in heaven who has died. Grandma tells me. She works in a cleaners. She washes all the clouds in heaven. She's got lots and lots of friends in heaven. She hopes we'll stay alive a long time but she wants me to go up there to see her. I'd like to go and see her but if you go up there you've got to stay there. You can't go unless you've died. Heaven is high, high in the sky, its higher than space.
I've never worried about these things. I just keep it in my heart. Its not a problem. It makes me quite sad they [people] don't believe. But when God talks to them they will know. We are very, very lucky that just some people care in this world. Like me and my friends and everybody in this school. I hope we care. We keep this planet going. I think heaven is part of this planet.
My Nan was burnt when she died, cremated. I think that's better than worms coming in your coffin.
Dixie and Gizmo's Story
Dixie and Gizmo were responding to Victoria's Story.
What was the scary thing about your nan dying? was it because you will miss hear? are you coping wath out your nan?My Hamster died about a year ago but ime ok now. do you think about your nan alot?