Pretending and Violence

[Hunni Bee]

I have my own reasons for disliking gun/shooting/fighting play.

But the main one I go back to is liability. Someone is bound to get hurt. I currently have a dck who almost exclusively chooses this type of play. He has no boundaries between him and other kids, and he'd just as soon punch another kid or knock them to the ground as pretend shoot. Its all the same to him. Even with the other boys, if this kind of play is permitted for even five minutes, someone gets hurt.

I dont need them hurting each other on my watch. So they just can choose another way to play. No one needs to shoot, kill or hurt anyone else while playing.

[Jewels]

I have my own reasons for disliking gun/shooting/fighting play.

But the main one I go back to is liability. Someone is bound to get hurt. I currently have a dck who almost exclusively chooses this type of play. He has no boundaries between him and other kids, and he'd just as soon punch another kid or knock them to the ground as pretend shoot. Its all the same to him. Even with the other boys, if this kind of play is permitted for even five minutes, someone gets hurt.

I dont need them hurting each other on my watch. So they just can choose another way to play. No one needs to shoot, kill or hurt anyone else while playing.

I have a boy like this and while I allow the play, I watch him like a hawk and allot of times he is my shadow, and I rarely let him play where I can't watch him, he has a major lack of empathy and he plays to hurt, he knows His boundaries with me, but he is sneaky, his mom told me the other day that he walked past her with some items he shouldn't have, and she asked him what he was going to do with those, and he responded... I'm not going to tell you, or you would take them away........