Hate them hate them hate them!!!!
My boys are boys.
They want to play with guns.
They want to play "cowboys" with guns.
They have an uncle with his air-soft gun (I don't really know if that's what its called)
This uncle will let my 5 year old shoot the air-soft gun up in the air as long as he doesn't tell his Mom (Me).
Well young uncle he told.........
And what has this done to my 5 year old? Its made him think guns are just that much cooler :(
I'm not happy about it.
At all.
I hate guns!
I don't like what they represent, which to me is killing.
Some people see protection, some see hunting animals.
I see killing.
And it makes me sick.
Now having said that, I must admit that today I helped my boys make cardboard guns.
Ahem.
Bear was practically bawling because he wanted to play "cowboy" but he doesn't have a gun like his cousins. He wanted to look in my closet for something he could use to make a gun with creatively (I told him to use his imagination and pretend something was a gun and be creative).
Crap!
I hate guns!!!!
But do I really want to make a huge issue of this with my kids and absolutely forbid them to play "cowboys" with guns. Wouldn't that just make guns that much more intriguing for them. I decided it probably would and because I will never buy them a real toy cowboy or sheriff gun I decided a cardboard pretend gun would be alright. We got creative and cut them out with a few set backs here and there. I had a hard time figuring out just the right shape. Then after I cut them out I let the boys color them. It didn't take long for them to start with the sound effects, but it only lasted a few minutes before they lost interest.
Lol!
I am willing to bet that had I refused to even let them pretend to play "cowboys" with guns they would have carried on about it all day long.
5 comments:
Yikes. That is a hard situation. I hate guns, too, but I think for some reason boys are just drawn to them. Maybe you could go visit a police station and have someone talk to them about how dangerous they can be and how people can get hurt using them?
I wouldn't even know what to do.
I am with you and I HATE guns. I don't even know where my son got the idea of shooting a gun because we don't watch any cartoons even that would include them. I don't know what to do about this. It is kind of like anything forbidden, it may just make it more desirable for them.
I hate guns too, but like you...I know they're gonna play with them so I would have done the very same thing.
Well I say good for you for letting them do it. I think if you made it so taboo the interest level would just increase tenfold.
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