guns!

[Auntie Mini]

well Michelle shall we have guns or not?:)
sam x

[Mike]

am i facing the firing squad? ;)

[t boy]

are you to going to do a bank job italian job style :) if so i am in

[Michelle]

I quite like the superheros ideas - although you don't see batman dressed up in a rabbit hat and sword though!!!!!! I think it's a matter of ignore the negative etc etc. I don't think 3 year olds are old enough to be told about the danger of guns etc though. What do you think?

[t boy]

dont tell me you found a gun in a kids nappy today lol the kids are getting worse. what next they will be pimping out there teachers

[STEALTH GT]

eh ?
whats going on ?
guns ?
3 year olds ?
batman ?
??????????????????????????
:confused:

[Mike]

u have about as much idea as the rest of us lol

[Auntie Mini]

Nah i agree with ignore the negative but it's still a gun at the end of the day whether its made or bought in, i think you have to consider the parents views, i dont know if i agree with letting the children just having them in the garden, what happens in 10 years time when they are done for shooting someone and the kid says "well its ok to shoot someone outside they said it at nursery" now thats a law suit on yer hands!!!
the picture they showed of that child was quite disturbing did you see the size of that weapon!
super heros yer thats cool, after all i grew up on dangermouse and im normal :p
sam x

[Michelle]

Yeah you may think you're normal - but you did marry Penfold:p I don't think any of it will go down well at my workplace, they are pretty anti-change etc. Maybe we will introduce a little more of "turn a blind eye" when they make stickle bricks etc but i'm not up for making a weapon on purpose from junk modelling or condoning violent behaviour. They see enough of that at home and need to feel safe from violence at preschool.

[RNRMF]

Should this really be on the forum - sounds more like a private phone call to me??

[Michelle]

By the way everyone else. Sam and I both went to a meeting yesterday about "War, Wapons and Superheros Play" for the children we teach - being 2 - 4 year olds. In the past it has always been "we don't play guns here" policy, as political correctness to violence etc. However recently it has been shown that this approach doesn't really work. So the meeting was about how many settings and reception classes approach the subject and their results.

Boring for the rest of you, but very relevant for Sam, me and Sarah working in the environment. Your views on the subject are welcome.:)

[RNRMF]

Aaaaaah, OK, this is more like it - now we can have a debate...

2-4 year olds, unless they are really messed up I don't think kids this young really understand the full horror of a real gun, death and the consequences of actually killing another person. I used to have cap guns etc as a kid, older than 4 too, and played shooting with friends and brothers and I havent shot anyone yet!

So, in conclusion, for a normal mentally stable kid I rekon toy guns are OK.

[t boy]

im normal
sam x
no you have never been normal


I havent shot anyone yet!what do u mean yet are you going to then lol

[t boy]

By the way everyone else. Sam and I both went to a meeting yesterday about "War, Wapons and Superheros Play" for the children we teach - being 2 - 4 year olds. In the past it has always been "we don't play guns here" policy, as political correctness to violence etc. However recently it has been shown that this approach doesn't really work. So the meeting was about how many settings and reception classes approach the subject and their results.

Boring for the rest of you, but very relevant for Sam, me and Sarah working in the environment. Your views on the subject are welcome.:)oh i was so looking forward to doing a bank job with you as well whnet and got the mask as well

[Mike]

well i played war all the time when i was young, and i was brought up in the military too, i play all the usual 'violent' games on the pc and ps2 but it doesnt make we want to go out and shoot someone!

[penneyben]

I know that peope in our ban everything nation have very different opinions on guns, however i'm going to make this point that some of you will dissagree with. So here i go,

Guns are "promoted" everywhere we go, news, tele, computer games, "gansta" rappers killing each other...etc. So eventually the kids going to see them anyway, whats the harm in letting them play war. I used to play war at preschool all the time, and then at junior school too. If people want to ban war, guns and weapons from children then they should also consider banning:

>playfights,
>Waterfights,
>your It,
>Stuck in the mud,
>Bulldog,
>Paintball,
>Cowboys and indians,
>or anything alse that involves going around with some agression:p .

So to conclude theres nothing wrong with playing war if your kid, its just part growing up. Infact i would like to think that it is allowed :p , as it genrates team skills beter than any sport ever would.

On the same topic (kind of), but a different angle, I have just taken up airsoft, an adult version of war gaming and i am enjoying it alot. I would recomend that as a mini club we would have a skirmish at somepoint, because everyone i know who has tryied it has loved it. You would be surprised just how much adrenline is released and how knackered you get.:D

Feel free to dissagree on anything i have written, this is just my opinion on the matter.

Ben

PS, just had to edit it after realising what a stuck up consertive i sounded like. Sorry for my rant. :o

[Blue_Bitch]

here here

[t boy]

this is why kids should not have guns
http://www.kontraband.com/show/show.asp?ID=1204&rtn=index-alltimetopten

[Michelle]

Sorry Steve the link doesn't work.

Well Sam, work has decided they still don't want to encourage any sort of superhero play as they think it always gets out of hand and too rough etc! We do have problems having all the kids in the same room sometimes with boistrousness etc but that's life really. Maybe in the summer i'll put the dressing up clothes in the garden and they can let their hair down a bit more then. They have also accepted to turn more than a blind eye to guns etc being made with stickle bricks etc but will not allow weapons to be made from junk modelling - usually want to make swords from tubes etc.
What did your place think?

[Auntie Mini]

my place is more or less the same they dont mind to much about the superhero play as long as is not to rough, and the guns can be out of duplo,interstar etc but again not with the recyable materials.
sam x
:p