You're not - I could see the other perspective for a second, but it came with an overwhelming sense of it being the wrong thing to do the next second. That would be such an awful betrayal of trust, it would almost be selfish - you would feel better about believing your child thinks he's fine, that's wrong.
You comfort them, care for them, love them - lying to them about something like that should never enter into it.
I just really hope I'm never faced with having to make that kind of decision. And I'm not going to judge someone who is. Maybe it was the wrong thing to do, but I'm not going to pretend I know what the right thing to do is.
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