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**i just wondered what other parents did or thought about children playing
with guns. not real guns, but toy guns. we had a no gun rule then my son
turned
everything into a gun and so it turned into a don't point it at anyone rule.**

I managed to maintain a virtual ban on guns and gun play for two decades of
parenting. Then came mister superpersistant, the magical constructo boy who
can and did turn literally anything into a gun. So the rule was, don't point
your knex or toast or origami gun at me or anyone else who hasn't agreed to
play. Then came the day two years ago, on a shopping trip to spend his
birthday money from grandma, that he stood sighing in front of the cap gun
display saying "I don't suppose there's any chance you're going to let me
spend my money on one of these, is there?" He came home with a bright red cap
pistol. No pointing or firing at anyone without their current permission, and
clean up after yourself. Not so surprisingly, his gun play decreased
dramatically after the first month and has never returned to it's former
obsession.

If I'd had a kid who desired it that much earlier, I wouldn't have held out
so long I'm sure. His elder brother channeled his cold steel lusts onto war
planes though, and his sister wasn't a weapons type, so..... :)

Deborah in IL

Rachel Wolfe Ravenhart

We have a no toy guns rule in our house. We have real guns. Our son has
been out to the range and seen what a real gun can do. In fact, making
pumpkin lace is a big deal every fall. He's dry fired the sig, and when
he's a little bigger, he'll be firing with the rest of us.

Rachel

DACunefare@... wrote:

> **i just wondered what other parents did or thought about children
> playing
> with guns. not real guns, but toy guns. we had a no gun rule then my
> son
> turned
> everything into a gun and so it turned into a don't point it at anyone
> rule.**


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