boys and their guns
| January 28, 2013 | Posted by Mama under family life, world view |
When Buddy was a year old he picked up a curved piece of Fisher Price railroad track, pointed with it and said, “bang! bang!” It was then I knew that the proverbial “they” were not joking – take toy guns away from boys and they will make guns out of anything they have within reach. But I was shocked when I stood back from helping Buddy with his math to discover what Pal had been sneaking his Math-U-See blocks off the table to create.
That is one mean looking assault weapon! Ha! That’s my little man.
The sad thing is that an innocent little boy, creating something like this from his imagination, could easily be punished in the public school system. Earlier this month, a five year old girl was suspended for ten days because she brought a Hello Kitty bubble gun to school and was compared to terrorists. Last year an eighth grader was suspended for a few days, for drawing pictures of a gun! The same month, a preschool told the parents of a three year old deaf boy named Hunter that he couldn’t sign his name because it looked like a gun. Stories like these are so numerous, I’m having a hard time coming up with polite words to describe those who suspended these kids. I’m SO glad our children are homeschooled. They’d probably end up in the news if they weren’t.
They’re just innocent young kids. Does he look like a terrorist to you?
I have 5 grandsons and all of them have gone through the phase where everything became a gun. I have to say it really bothered…and bothers me!
He’s a cutie….it’s the wink he’s giving in the last photo LOL
We get on to the boys everything they point something making it look like a gun.
It breaks my heart to see the way boys are being emasculated in the government school system. The urge to protect home and family is in every male – unless it is psychologically beaten out of them. Young men need to be raised to be young men – not girls with facial hair and muscles.
My own son is solidly masculine. He had GI -Joe’s, and other similar boy’s toys. He selected them himself – we never suggested them to him. Our basement play-room was divided by the children themselves, into a boys half, and a girls half. The girls half was filled with dolls and dress-up things. I don’t even like to think about what the boys half had! If a Barbie ever drifted over to the boys area – it was catapulted back – usually decapitated, and complete with sound effects.
Since they were not exposed to TV, I have to conclude these were their natural inclinations. Biblically – the only record of a woman being an active participant in war, was Jael (yael) who pounded a tent stake into General Sisera’s temple while he slept. Judges 4-5
The young women at church practically swoon when my son is around – I don’t think it’s because he is good at clipping coupons and exchanging recipes!