Gun play

[theatokos]

This is a post for all those born male and for mothers of males.

If you are a male, did you play with guns? Did you turn non-gun items into imaginary guns? Do you think this is something innate in males? If not, where did you learn this behaviour from? As an adult male now do you have any parenting perspectives on this, or advice for the new mama of a male?

For mothers of males, do your sons play with guns or have gun play? If so, at what age did this start? Does this bother you? If so, how do you discourage this? Any thoughts for a new mama?

Comments

[msmidge.livejournal.com]

Sam has started doing something gun-like but I'm not sure if he means it to be a gun or what. He takes any stick-like item and points it at whatever and makes a shhhh! noise.

But he also uses stick-like items as conductor-batons, so who knows. He loves to conduct--closes his eyes and everything!

[ewigweibliche.livejournal.com]

A conductor! Yay! I think humans innately want power, but guns per se are learned. And I don't think power is necessarily bad. It will be interesting to see what Bennett gravitates to.

Maybe Sam is a wizard in training.

[msmidge.livejournal.com]

I hadn't thought of the wizard angle. Could be! He gets most of this stuff from Tom & Jerry, and they have both conductor episodes and wizard episodes. And duck hunting episodes, though I don't think he's done that.