my beautiful boy is so full of violent ideas!!

[Sparklemagic]

He's three, blond, beautiful and so loving and affectionate, he's an absolute delight and really a dream child....

today when I asked what he had done at pre-school he told me that some children had played with him, then he'd thrown them over his shoulders and put his sword in them, and eaten them........

All this from a boy who has never seen inappropriate telly, only cbeebies or postman pat DVD's! I'm not sure but THINK the sword bit comes from Peter Pan, and also maybe the eating bit as well, he's been a crocodile lately wanting another bite of Captain Hook!!!!!

It really is in the genes, isn't it!

Oh yes, definitely!

My DS is not quite 3 yet and very loving and affectionate. Plays equally with cars or dolls, swords or beads. Shares all the same toys as his sister, watches all the same telly. But all of a sudden a couple of weeks ago, the two of them were sitting quiety playing with Pretty Polly when I overheard him telling poor Polly he was going to "cut your head off at the neck!!"

A plastic wrench from his tool set has become a "cutter" for choping peoples heads and arms off ("choppy, chop chop!!") and he now runs around after us with a foam sword shouting "I fight you". The sword belonged to his sister BTW, part of a dressing up outfit she never touched! Suddenly it's his favourite toy.

He still gives me huge cuddles and kisses and hates for me to be mad at him (unlike DD who positively encourages confrontation!) he just likes to chop my head off now too.

Where on earth did all this come from?

horray, it's not just me!

I just find the contrast between my extremely loving boy (who is a real mummy's boy and a big softie) and the boy who has the compulsion to 'kill' people so bizarre! I think people must assume I let him watch all sorts of awful age-inappropriate telly, but no - it's all from him (REALLY scary thought.....)

Yep. I think I'm learning that's just boys for you. He also finds words like poo and bum absolutely hilarious!

Can't help but love them though, can you.

Hi sparklemagic
my 7 yr old in his first year at school told me if i wanted to kiss him goodbye i had to do it in the car and not in the school playground, I was gutted yet he still likes to get in our bed if things get a bit too scarey in his own room and he still likes the odd hot chocolae in his sippy cup!!
Boys do get a bit gorey sometimes but they sponge up all the information they can get, even the most seemingly harmless cartoon can actually be quite violent (eg we all must have watched tom and jerry).
My mother was horrified because i used to like "operating" on my teddies as a child, i had no asprirations to be a doctor i just liked to cut them open and sew them up again - i think i turned out ok?
PS sparklemagic DD has been good at nursery all week!!

I don't think it's the cartoons at all - all kids need to come to terms with aggression. How can they learn to control it if they have never been alowed to show it, even as part of a game? It's all part of a normal psychological development.

Ds (6) likes to invent "sister killers" and told me today that he was going to phone the army and get them to come and shot me