Sunday, October 3, 2010

UNCLE! There, I Said It.

I have been resisting. Trying to stop this. Encouraging my son's Little People to "be friends". Forbidding swords and guns. Shouting "NO FIGHTING" repeatedly....endlessly.

What's hitting me is that I am starting to believe that even if I put my son in a room with Gandhi, Mother Theresa, and Martin Luther King, Jr. he would still find a way to make sticks into swords, his hands into guns, and be doing karate moves while trying to kill the enemy.

With sound effects, of course.

And now, I think I am giving in. Originally, I did not accept the "he's a boy, it's what they do" answer. Now, I cannot think of another explanation. It is what it is.

So, here's to what Proverbs 22:6 says "Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it"...

Vintage toy gun and slingshot from the 1950's.

2 comments:

Corrie said...

good for you

Holly said...

I wonder what little boys made out of sticks and fingers before guns were invented. Spears and arrows, I imagine.

You're right. It is what it is.