Recently our daughter’s fish died. We bought it for her when she was 3 and she named her “Poshie” (whatever that means!). Poshie was a beautiful, blue/green betta fish and graced our kitchen for the past 3½ years, so the day we saw her at the bottom of the tank was a sad one.
Our daughter handled it fairly well, but, unlike our parents did with our dead fish, I couldn’t bring myself to flush her down the toilet. So we took her outside, dug a little hole under a tree and made a rock with her name on it to set on her new resting place.
As I placed her in the hole, our daughter said “Bye, Poshie. You were a good fish. Now we’re giving you back to the earth.” Out of the mouth of babes. She’s 6½ and she “gets it.” I am proud…and hopeful!
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Poor Poshie.
We had a beta fish that lived for nearly four years!
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Jenna – hopefully they’re swimming in the-great-fish-bowl-in-the-sky together!
She DOES get it. I think that she may have a fantastic teacher.
And I ain’t talking ’bout the ones in school, neither girl, mmm-kay?
dang.
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Oh and poor Poshie.
sorry.
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Does my boyfriend David Beckham know that you named a beta fish after his wife?
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Kev – Thanks, sugar! As always!!! And yes….poor Poshie (a.k.a Fish Spice!).
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