My son was super close to his pawpaw. Last year my grandfather's health declined greatly. My son could see something was going on, but did not quite understand it. On my daughters first birthday, we took the kids out to a fun center. While we were there I got the dreaded phone call. my grandfather had died and my son was crushed. He kept asking me why God took him, before he could say goodbye. So my wife ran to the store and got some helium balloons. We cut out hearts and all of us wrote messages to my grandfather on them. Then, we tied the hearts to a balloon, went outside and released them. My son felt better after that. What are some other good ways to console a small child? This is always such a hard subject to go about, when it comes to children. Especially since you can not answer most of their questions.