Boys playing with Guns
This weekend I read an interesting article in The Sunday Times about how boys seem to be pre-programmed to play with guns. The article concludes that in the long run it is unlikely to harm them.
Having two boys, this is a subject I know something about. Try as I might to prevent them from playing with guns it is not working. All their games are about fighting in one form of another.
It is really frowned upon for boys to play with guns yet, in my experience, that is all they want to do. At school, my children have been told off for trying to make guns out of anything they can get their hands on. It doesn’t really fit in today’s pc world. However, I am now becoming resigned to the fact that boys will be boys and that it probably won’t do any harm in the long run. They are just playing and are not being spiteful or hurting each other.
Next time my boys are playing “fighting”, I think I will just leave them to it!
