Why, oh why is my son addicted to making scary-looking Lego guns and firing them at everything? He knows better than to pretend to fire at people (instant time out) but he keeps building them
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While obviously an easy target, the media does have a bit to answer for in glamorising guns to children (G.I. Joe and the like). This is one of the reasons I remain so nostalgic for the British kids' shows of my childhood. There were never very many firearms to be seen around Bagpuss or Chorlton and the Wheelies.
Still, that doesn't help much with your situation at the moment, I appreciate. I can certainly understand the frustration, and look forward to confronting the same kind of issues in three years' time.
My mom tells a story about my younger brother and toy guns - she didn't want any in the house, ever. Worked really hard to not expose us to things like GI Joe, etc. And then one day, my three year old brother, who had never had access to anything weapon-like to play with at all, picked up the Florida piece from our big USA puzzle - and turned it into a gun. She gave up and let my grandfather buy him a GI Joe and a cowboy holster. ;)
Yeah, I've heard of similar stories about guns, which is why I haven't stopped him from building them. He knows he can't point them at people (that earns him a time-out pretty quickly) but he's free to build them.
All things considered, he builds some pretty fierce and scary looking weapons, I must say! My secret fear is that he's going to end up designing guns...or trading arms ;p NOT the way I want him to be rich and support me in my old age!
My boys do this too and I just view it as generic building. We've done the instruction about not pointing them at people because yeah, not the thing to do. It's also verboten in school and Vic got punted all the way down to bottom level on his chart at school for repeatedly turning his fingers into a gun and shooting it around the room.
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Still, that doesn't help much with your situation at the moment, I appreciate. I can certainly understand the frustration, and look forward to confronting the same kind of issues in three years' time.
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*hugs*
Ciaran loves you but right now growing up is getting in the way.
:)
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My mom tells a story about my younger brother and toy guns - she didn't want any in the house, ever. Worked really hard to not expose us to things like GI Joe, etc. And then one day, my three year old brother, who had never had access to anything weapon-like to play with at all, picked up the Florida piece from our big USA puzzle - and turned it into a gun. She gave up and let my grandfather buy him a GI Joe and a cowboy holster. ;)
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All things considered, he builds some pretty fierce and scary looking weapons, I must say! My secret fear is that he's going to end up designing guns...or trading arms ;p NOT the way I want him to be rich and support me in my old age!
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it's..
What boys do
They make lego guns, and lego rockets and shoot them at each other.
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