1. No playing with full-size toy guns in the house. (Lego guns the size of a toothpick are okay, as are laser blasters built from 1,000 Lego bits, because those fall apart as soon as the boy picks them up.)
2. No shooting activity during Mass, even if the weapon is just your finger.
3. No shooting activity during meals, ditto.
4. If your brother or sister is screaming, stop pointing whatever-it-is at them and saying, “Pow.” I don’t care if it was just your finger. Stop it. I can’t stand the screaming another minute.
” I can’t stand the screaming another minute.”
Then don’t just stand there like another child in the room, punish the child doing it so they are incentivized to stop it. Dr. Spock was an idiot.
Yup. Absolutely no gunplay in church. No gunplay at the dinner table, either.
Ditto horses, alligators, karate masters, hockey playing, ninjas, spies (ours AND theirs), knights, piranhas, dragons, and any other critters that Wbill Jr’s imagination can come up with.
Rest of the house is fair game, until I get tired of the yelling. Oftentimes, I join in. :-)