The Continuing Wimpification of America

Townhall.com ^ | March 16, 2013 | Daniel J. Mitchell

[baa39]

I have a friend who has owned a home day care for about 17 years. She has 12 kids, ages 4-5, and tries to keep a fairly even balance of boys and girls. She does not allow toy guns, toy soldiers, squirt guns or such, due to some parent who always objects.

She says there is no use pretending that little boys don’t want to play “cops and robbers” or “cowboys and Indians”. It’s in their blood. No matter how she discourages it, boys will take a stick, a banana, even a girl’s doll, and “use” it as a gun. They never hurt one another or hit one another. They just love playing these sort of games. And it’s only the boys.

After all these years, she has given up trying to stop them since it seems harmless, and she no longer looks at it as some psychological problem of the child’s.

[Terry Mross]

I know a teacher who allowed a kid with a shotgun to get on his schoolbus because the kid was going home with a friend to go duck hunting. This wasn’t that long ago. He said he stepped up on the bus, racked the shotgun and said “I don’t want any trouble today!” The kids all laughed. The Robertsons would have been proud.