Just Child's Play? Parents re-thinking letting kids play war games

Fox News ^ | Thursday, August 21, 2003 | Amy C. Sims

[Skooz]

NEW YORK

[davisfh]

"Just Child's Play? Parents re-thinking letting kids play war games"

We are just so sensitive, aren't we? I'll probably lay awake tonight worrying about this. (NOT) What I'll really worry about is what another poster described as the "pussification of America."

[No Truce With Kings]

I want one of those for Christmas.

[4mycountry]

Get in line, buddy.

KB Toys is selling them in September. I'm getting one or someone dies.

[WOSG]

What give is the culture-benders are full of cr*p and the complicit media is too clueless to know. Playacting is harmless fun for kids.

btw, i grew up just like you. I had a whole napoleanic army of 1-100 scale soldiers, quite the war-gamer.

[No Truce With Kings]

"Get in line, buddy.

KB Toys is selling them in September. I'm getting one or someone dies."

I'm sure there will be enough for everyone. Profit. It's a GOOD thing.

[boris]

“They make guns out of everything and sticks will easily turn into swords," said the San Diego, Calif., resident. "I try to be low-key about it, but will definitely curb them away and come up with something besides a gun, saying, ‘Let’s make it your magic wand.”

I gotcha magic wand right here, lady.

[boris]

Oh, and All Your Magic Wand Are Belong to Us!

[45Auto]

Here's my 'magic wand';it makes vermin go away

[Possenti]

"I try to be low-key about it, but will definitely curb them away and come up with something besides a gun, saying, ‘Let’s make it your magic wand.”

Yeah, let's teach them to be a bunch of faries. Poor kids. They'll have a tough life in the public school system...

[ChewedGum]

It's not that they don't want kids to be kids. They just don't want kids to be boys, or to grow up into men.

Gum

[gedeon3]

When I was growing up I played all kinds of war games, cowboys and indians, and all kinds of super heroes; I had a big arsenal of toy weapons, soldiers, tanks, planes, etc. Both my boys were raised the same way and I loved it. They loved it even more.

[bethelgrad]

It's funny; i grew up playing war, with GI Joe's, toy guns, etc. Joined the Military, played with real guns and it wasn't as fun. I think because I had to clean it.

[Bob]

"I try to be low-key about it, but will definitely curb them away and come up with something besides a gun, saying, ‘Let’s make it your magic wand.”

Yeah, let's teach them to be a bunch of faries. Poor kids. They'll have a tough life in the public school system...

Response to be expected from most kids:

OK, mommy, it's a magic wand. And it goes, Bang!, Bang!, Bang!

[azcap]

I hope you have a Concealed Magic Wand License for that.

My magic wand is hanging above my desk. It is a 7mm bolt action magic wand. Those Germans sure did make a fine magic wand.

[azcap]

If games are war-specific, it’s evidence children are paying too much attention to the news, said John Broughton, associate professor of psychology and education at Teachers College Columbia University

 

Does that mean that when I was running around the backyard in 1983, shooting all the neighbor kids, I was really trying to cope with my pre-pubescence fears about the Invasion of Grenada? - Hardly - I was fighting Nazis, and Japs, and Rebels (sorry but I was born a Yankee.)

    The reason liberals hate playing war ( or teaching real history) is that there are good guys and bad guys. Moral relatavists aren't allowed to play in my backyard.

[pa_dweller]

“They make guns out of everything and sticks will easily turn into swords," said the San Diego, Calif., resident. "I try to be low-key about it, but will definitely curb them away and come up with something besides a gun, saying, ‘Let’s make it your magic wand.”

What other invention allows anybody holding it to affect something of the holder's choosing at a distance (almost) instantaneously? Tell me that ain't magic.

[Husker24]

I used to have a battle ground set up in a swampy area in the back yard with plastic army men and various GI Joe military equipment which would be blown up with various fireworks and improvised explosives. Good clean fun.

[mlmr]

Where did you get the camo, or any kind of machine gun. There are no toy guns for sale here in Maine....I have looked.