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I am a mother to an almost 4 year old and 6 month old sons. I have chosen to NOT introduce violence into our household and this goes with smacking, toy guns, nerf guns, water pistols etc……… sometimes I feel as though I am the weird mum doing this and that maybe I am wrong………!! I know as my son gets older he is going to find nerf guns and guns alike possibly fun to play with, but as a 3 year old i feel he is too young to differentiate between fantasy and real and know the ramifications of guns that I have just chosen to keep these out of his life so far. As a parent i cringe when i see other kids playing and shooting with guns, i cringe when a child uses his hand to replica a gun and points it and says “im going to kill you” or “your dead”. I know that playing with guns doesn;t mean my son will become a criminal, i just don’t see the sense in letting them grow up quicker than they need to and bottom line is whether it is just for play, guns are weapons and in the wrong hands they do kill. I love that my son has this innocence about him, but am i sheltering him too much??! Maybe I am but i don’t want to raise a thug, i don’t want him to learn that weapons are ok and handling things like that is alright. Isn’t it my job to protect him and raise him to the best i can?!?

I know kids his age don’t understand the consequences of their actions, so wouldn’t that tell a parent they are then too young to understand certain gunplay is ok?? I also don’t want to de-sensitise my son when it comes to guns etc that to him they are nothing and just an every day part of life.

Posted by Kylie Smith, 7th May 2013

8 Comments

- - mom111362 said
  - 29 Jul 2015
    12:20 am
I don’t really want to introduce my sons either, even action figures have guns though.

- - mom66977 said
  - 30 Jun 2015
    7:38 pm
thanks for sharing x

- - Sandra_S said
  - 30 May 2015
    10:25 pm
My son plays with nerf guns with his uncles. I don’t have a problem with it. My brothers grew up paying with toy guns and they didn’t turn out to be “thugs”.
But each to their own.
Kids will be kids.

- - mom113055 said
  - 06 Apr 2015
    11:57 am
it a a great and exellent story

- - keeleynme said
  - 02 Jan 2015
    12:42 am
My son plays guns, and he has never said your dead or I’m going to kill you. He says put your hands up, and pretends he is a police officer. I think it’s silly but that’s just me. I’m sure you know what’s best for your kids and yyor family

- - stepmom107932 said
  - 31 Dec 2014
    10:46 pm
I had toy guns as a little girl that made machine gun noises and yet i was just about terrified when my partners work mates took us shooting for the first time last month. So i dont think it makes much difference.
Toy guns is totally your parenting choice even nerf guns but water guns? A lot of them dont even resemble guns…. they are just a lot of fun and you get wet

- - mom57522 said
  - 30 Dec 2014
    8:52 pm
My kids don’t have toy guns and it’s never been an issue.

- - jodie80 said
  - 31 Mar 2014
    10:20 pm
i dont let my kids play with guns .. i just dont like it but i dont mind if other kids do