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Re: What do other parents do with Lego guns?
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lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general
Date: 
Wed, 21 Jun 2000 02:30:01 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Deidre Rushton Brumby writes:
So what do other parents do with Lego guns or is it not an issue?

   My 8 year old son, who's been playing with LEGO toys since he was 4, knows
that guns are not toys and he rarely plays with them, so it's not an issue.
We also enforce safety rules about any plaything that launches projectiles not
being toward a person.  This includes everything from the cyber slam cannons
to paper airplanes.

   The most actual "violent" play with LEGO sets has been with the cyber slam
stuff, and that's because it's designed for competitive play.

   It depends on how well each indivudual child separates play from reality.
I don't mind when he makes swords, howitzers, or space vehicles with weapons.
Nor, for example, it didn't phase me when my son came up with the idea of the
"blood bath" I used in my haunted house.  Your mileage may vary.

Brian



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  Re: What do other parents do with Lego guns?
 
(...) Without having any children on my own (who could make a mess of mine and my husbands Lego-collection), I find that my friends children, and particularly the boys, do have a grate tendency to play "figting-games" - with about anything they may (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)

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  What do other parents do with Lego guns?
 
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? Until recently I'd only ever bought one set with guns (Pirate skeleton cave) and I threw them straight in (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)

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