Should we let little kids play with toy guns? Well, of course we should! This parent has it half-right:
“They make guns out of everything and sticks will easily turn into swords," said [San Diego parent Christine D'Amico]. "I try to be low-key about it, but will definitely curb them away and come up with something besides a gun, saying, ‘Let’s make it your magic wand.”
Yes, let it be their "magic wand," and see how quickly the wand starts shooting out explosive magic blasts. Boys are programmed to play that way. For the same reason my 3-year old daughter turns everything into a family, "This is the mommy, and this is the daddy and this is the baby...."
How many of the same parents who worry about playing with guns, will buy innumerable gruesome video games for their children?
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