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Re: What do other parents do with Lego guns?
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lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general
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Wed, 21 Jun 2000 02:27:21 GMT
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Deidre Rushton Brumby <drb@tasmail.com> wrote in message
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> Following on from the topic of "small action boys" and Lego stereotyping • in
> loc.au, what do other parents do with the guns in their Lego sets?
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> Until recently I'd only ever bought one set with guns (Pirate skeleton • cave)
> and I threw them straight in the rubbish bin. (Yes, I know several people
> are aghast at this blatant disregard for the holy ABS).
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> Nowadays I still remove the guns before my small action boy even gets to
> see the sets, but I have kept them. I'm undecided on whether or not to
> reintroduce them once he's (much) older.
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> I did however overlook a space zapper thingo in an Insectoids set and got
> quite a lecture from my 4 year old about this "But Mum, that's a gun, get
> rid of it!".
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> As you can tell from this he's been brought up in a "we don't play with • toy
> guns because guns are real things that kill people" environment, both at
> home and at childcare and Kindergarten (it became an issue outside the • home
> first and we followed on with it). This does not however
> stop the fascination with imaginary guns and "blowing things up" which
> I'm not aware of him being exposed to and so must be an innate 4 year old
> small action boy thing.
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> So what do other parents do with Lego guns or is it not an issue?
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> Deidre
> drb@tasmail.com
I have a 10 year old daughter. She still has her rifles and pistols from
her Adventurer sets and her swords and crossbows from her castle sets. They
are all in a box with the other pieces she isn't currently using . She
mainly ignores them. She did give one rifle to a redcoated soldier she used
to mark a Revolutionary War Battlesite on a NC map she made of Lego for a
4th grade project.
I have traded the guns and swords from my sets for other Lego pieces with
Lugnet members. She knows how I feel.
I don't find weapons in sets a problem, They are just another opening for a
dialogue with my child about this subject.
No I didn't march in the Million Mom thing, but that is where my sympathies
lie. Email to get the address to send my target shirt so I can be properly
prepared to be one of the first to go when the nasties completely take
over... ;-) hmm! maybe I should get a P.O. Box address...
sheree
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