Comments on: Boys and Weapon Play http://gnmparents.com/boys-and-weapon-play/ Giving New Meaning to Parenting Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:01:39 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Rethinking Gun Play | GNMParents http://gnmparents.com/boys-and-weapon-play/comment-page-1/#comment-8370 Rethinking Gun Play | GNMParents Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:03:34 +0000 http://www.gnmparents.com/boys-and-weapon-play/#comment-8370 [...] this GNMParents post, Amy Bailey says her reading indicates that most little boys show interest in weapons. I agree with [...] [...] this GNMParents post, Amy Bailey says her reading indicates that most little boys show interest in weapons. I agree with [...]

]]> By: Colleen http://gnmparents.com/boys-and-weapon-play/comment-page-1/#comment-3210 Colleen Thu, 05 Apr 2007 13:41:35 +0000 http://www.gnmparents.com/boys-and-weapon-play/#comment-3210 Great article Amy! Still laughing about Stop, Drop, and Roll!!! My husband is a huge Star Wars fan & he wonders when I will let my son, Zachary (4 1/2 ) watch the non violent parts of the movies. I am still on the fence with this. We do have Star Wars books he enjoys… so we are getting closer to letting him see a movie. We have tried to keep our kids away from guns too. Still toy guns find a way into our home. My Colorado Aunt came to visit and brought Z some Wild West items… one being realistic looking guns. Lucky for me, Zachary was more interested in the Wild West book she brought and I managed to hide the guns out of his sight. When my Aunt left the guns went in the Goodwill bag. Then Christmas came and my sister-in-law gave Z an Incredibles gun with all sorts of buttons that lit up and made cool sounds. So that one we were not able to keep out of his hands. I was surprised to see him pick it up and know what to do with it since we never have shown him and we thought he wasn’t exposed to those sorts of things. I do believe it is genetic and boys will pick up a gun and play with it when they see it. There was even a study done in 2001 that showed that boys who find guns will likely handle them - http://edition.cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/parenting/06/04/boys.guns/index.html . I guess all we can do is make sure we educate them at a young age about gun safety. Great article Amy! Still laughing about Stop, Drop, and Roll!!! My husband is a huge Star Wars fan & he wonders when I will let my son, Zachary (4 1/2 ) watch the non violent parts of the movies. I am still on the fence with this. We do have Star Wars books he enjoys… so we are getting closer to letting him see a movie.

We have tried to keep our kids away from guns too. Still toy guns find a way into our home. My Colorado Aunt came to visit and brought Z some Wild West items… one being realistic looking guns. Lucky for me, Zachary was more interested in the Wild West book she brought and I managed to hide the guns out of his sight. When my Aunt left the guns went in the Goodwill bag. Then Christmas came and my sister-in-law gave Z an Incredibles gun with all sorts of buttons that lit up and made cool sounds. So that one we were not able to keep out of his hands. I was surprised to see him pick it up and know what to do with it since we never have shown him and we thought he wasn’t exposed to those sorts of things. I do believe it is genetic and boys will pick up a gun and play with it when they see it. There was even a study done in 2001 that showed that boys who find guns will likely handle them – http://edition.cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/parenting/06/04/boys.guns/index.html . I guess all we can do is make sure we educate them at a young age about gun safety.

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