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fitme · #1 (**permalink**) 01-22-2007, 08:10 AM

Do you guys think that its ok for your kids to play with toy guns?

7digits · #2 (**permalink**) 01-22-2007, 08:17 AM

i' don't like guns and i don't think that kids should be playing with them.

mitchcumstein · #3 (**permalink**) 01-22-2007, 08:19 AM

Well since i have 2 girls im not gonna have to worry about that one but if i had boys, i dont think id let em play with toy guns. Teach em to respect guns, not point em at other people and try to shoot/kill them. Whether its play or not, I see nothing positive that can come out of it. Buy em a bb gun when theyre old enough and responsible enough and teach them the proper way to use it.

jlozan84 · #4 (**permalink**) 01-22-2007, 08:24 AM

Nope.

Hannainnc · #5 (**permalink**) 01-22-2007, 08:28 AM

I don't think so. Our neighbor kid let my son have one of his toy guns and it got "lost" quickly.

The scary thing is my daughter is the one who wanted to play with it. It was disturbing seeing my 2 year old point a play gun at her brother. Nope, no guns around here, real or fake.

fitme · #6 (**permalink**) 01-22-2007, 08:29 AM

I've never bought my son a toy gun or he has never received one as a gift. He is 4.5.
I dont think It's right these days. Especially in the world that we live in today. I dont want him to think shooting is good.

We were at some friends over the weekend and their son has/plays with guns and swords all the time. So, obviously my son was playing with them too. I was mad cause my friend doesnt really care if her kids play with guns. What do you do?

Now all he does he make gun sound noises and points his fingers at me...i dont like that.

Maybe I'm too much but thats just me.

7digits · #7 (**permalink**) 01-22-2007, 08:31 AM

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Originally Posted by fitme

I've never bought my son a toy gun or he has never received one as a gift. He is 4.5.
I dont think It's right these days. Especially in the world that we live in today. I dont want him to think shooting is good.

We were at some friends over the weekend and their son has/plays with guns and swords all the time. So, obviously my son was playing with them too. I was mad cause my friend doesnt really care if her kids play with guns. What do you do?

Now all he does he make gun sound noises and points his fingers at me...i dont like that.

Maybe I'm too much but thats just me.

just explain to him that what he is doing makes you very unhappy. even at 4 1/2 children are very smart.

Hannainnc · #8 (**permalink**) 01-22-2007, 08:34 AM

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Originally Posted by fitme

I've never bought my son a toy gun or he has never received one as a gift. He is 4.5.
I dont think It's right these days. Especially in the world that we live in today. I dont want him to think shooting is good.

We were at some friends over the weekend and their son has/plays with guns and swords all the time. So, obviously my son was playing with them too. I was mad cause my friend doesnt really care if her kids play with guns. What do you do?

Now all he does he make gun sound noises and points his fingers at me...i dont like that.

Maybe I'm too much but thats just me.

my son plays with toy swords...I don't have issue with swords for some reason. he has tons of play swords and light sabres. He likes to pretend he is Arragon from LOTR or Obi-Wan from star wars. We play out the "I am your father" part from star wars too...I think I have more fun than him though.

Maybe, just maybe I would let him play with a gun that was totally fake looking, like one of those blaster things from Lilo and Stitch, but not any sort of gun that looks real. I don't have a problem with him playing with a super soaker. It's the guns that look real that i don't like.

POWERJIM · #9 (**permalink**) 01-22-2007, 09:08 AM

Yeah i think its ok if the child is into military stuff like i was as a boy, my boy has a cowboy outfit with a toy cowboy gun, i wish to teach him about firearms and how to strip a weapon etc.

fitme · #10 (**permalink**) 01-22-2007, 09:16 AM

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my son plays with toy swords...I don't have issue with swords for some reason. he has tons of play swords and light sabres. He likes to pretend he is Arragon from LOTR or Obi-Wan from star wars. We play out the "I am your father" part from star wars too...I think I have more fun than him though.

Maybe, just maybe I would let him play with a gun that was totally fake looking, like one of those blaster things from Lilo and Stitch, but not any sort of gun that looks real. I don't have a problem with him playing with a super soaker. It's the guns that look real that i don't like.

Yeah my son has a light sabre too for the same Star War reason..lol
Thats it though. Swords I could handle a bit.
I seen him play with the neighbours water gun one time and I found that really disturbing...

It's hard though when his friends think its ok to play with toy guns..I find it difficult to explain to him that I dont want him playing with them..Meanwhile the friends parents dont care...

POWERJIM · #11 (**permalink**) 01-22-2007, 09:26 AM

When a tiger cub plays with his brothers they play at hunting and killing each other, the mother watches them play fighting till one day she takes them out and teaches them what she knows about hunting and taking down big game animals etc, every animal has a desire to kill either for food or to defend their family from predators. You wont ever tame nature, the day will come when they will act on instinct.

Hannainnc · #12 (**permalink**) 01-22-2007, 10:15 AM

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Yeah my son has a light sabre too for the same Star War reason..lol
Thats it though. Swords I could handle a bit.
I seen him play with the neighbours water gun one time and I found that really disturbing...

It's hard though when his friends think its ok to play with toy guns..I find it difficult to explain to him that I dont want him playing with them..Meanwhile the friends parents dont care...

Here is what I have learned...I don't have to explain why or how or any of that...I am the mom, I know what is best, if I tell my son he cannot play with toy guns...that's it. The answer to "why?" is "because I said so" I will not get into a long drawn out discussion of why it is bad, what I'm trying to teach him, etc. sounds sort of mean and unfair, oh well. I supposed I'd rather be mean and unfair than have disrespectful gun toting kids running around.

POWERJIM · #13 (**permalink**) 01-22-2007, 10:25 AM

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Here is what I have learned...I don't have to explain why or how or any of that...I am the mom, I know what is best, if I tell my son he cannot play with toy guns...that's it. The answer to "why?" is "because I said so" I will not get into a long drawn out discussion of why it is bad, what I'm trying to teach him, etc. sounds sort of mean and unfair, oh well. I supposed I'd rather be mean and unfair than have disrespectful gun toting kids running around.

Your obviously a very Strong willed role model for your son which is also very positive, i hate to see kids nagging their mum for sweets until she gives in.

Hannainnc · #14 (**permalink**) 01-22-2007, 11:13 AM

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Your obviously a very Strong willed role model for your son which is also very positive, i hate to see kids nagging their mum for sweets until she gives in.

I try. I seriously think sometimes kids need to hear no...even if it really is no big deal to say yes. that probably makes no sense. haha.

BiggerGuns=LongerDrives · #15 (**permalink**) 01-22-2007, 11:18 AM

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I try. I seriously think sometimes kids need to hear no...even if it really is no big deal to say yes. that probably makes no sense. haha.

Hanna it makes perfect sense...

My daughter gets the "NO" when she needs to.
We went to Disneyland yesterday and she heard it quite a bit

That doesnt mean I dont still say "YES"

fitme · #16 (**permalink**) 01-22-2007, 11:27 AM

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Here is what I have learned...I don't have to explain why or how or any of that...I am the mom, I know what is best, if I tell my son he cannot play with toy guns...that's it. The answer to "why?" is "because I said so" I will not get into a long drawn out discussion of why it is bad, what I'm trying to teach him, etc. sounds sort of mean and unfair, oh well. I supposed I'd rather be mean and unfair than have disrespectful gun toting kids running around.

I see what you're saying but I mean try explaining it to him in front of the other kids parents???? you know what I mean? The other kids parents dont mind their kids runnning around playing with the guns..I do say NO but I just feel weird saying it in someone else home while my son is running around with their kids guns...you know what i mean?

Hannainnc · #17 (**permalink**) 01-22-2007, 11:30 AM

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I see what you're saying but I mean try explaining it to him in front of the other kids parents???? you know what I mean? The other kids parents dont mind their kids runnning around playing with the guns..I do say NO but I just feel weird saying it in someone else home while my son is running around with their kids guns...you know what i mean?

oh I see...then tell the parents. Just say, "I don't let so and so play with guns". That should work and if they are like most parents they will have their child put the toy guns away.