Does your 3 or 4 yr old have toy guns?

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Just wondering. Mine don't have any guns.

Was going to a friends yesterday afternoon and when we met at pre-school she asked me if I minded that her son had some new action men with guns that he wanted to show to my son that afternoon. I said it was her house and I wasn't going to say she couldn't have them out but that we didn't have any guns in our house.

There was no big deal made about it but I've been thinking about it since (oh, because we didn't go to her house in the end, we all went to the park because it was so nice) - her son is only 3.5 and I'm also just really surprised because the Mum is very, very religious and talks a lot about how she hates those Bratz dolls and how she only really wants him to watch CBeebies and keep him away from 'bad things' for as long as possible. I said I was surprised she had them (we know each other well so it was OK for me to say this iyswim! it was said nicely!) and she said 'oh yes but he spotted them in the shop and he wanted them' - this shocked me too really! I don't care what ds spots in the shops - I'm the mummy and I'll decide if he's having it!

Anyway, dh thought I was being silly about the gun thing and said all boys play with them - I know they do but so far we've avoided it as the boys are only 4, 2 and 8 months and I'd like to keep it that way for as long as I can.

I started off not letting my ds have guns. Which is all fine and dandy untill you get them as pressies. When that happenend I told him he couldnt have it and the hysterics that followed didnt make me change my mind.
The thing that did make me change my mind is the fact that my ds would go on and on about going to my best friends house to visit her little boy, who he didnt reallg get on with but because he had guns... This got really silly and it started to become an obsession. He would make everything into guns, toast, lego, cereal boxes, all on the sly untill I would found them and throw them out. So eventually I gave in a actually bought him one. Lo and behold he played with it solidly for two day and hasnt touched it since, and the obsession seams to have gone by the wayside thank god. I think its a case of what you cant have you want desperatly.

snafu Have you seen new star wars my son (5) went last weekend with his dad, other son 2 bit too young too sit through cinema, really enjoyed it been ranting about it since his dad has been too bless him

Nope - Star Wars without Han Solo is wrong, wrong, wrong and I can't be doing with Ewan McGregor's comedy Alec Guinness impression...

lost me there give me a chick flick anyday or a good horror. I think it was more dad wanting to watch it and using l as a excuse to go although I have been informed we have to get the whole set on dvd when they come out im sure I will force myself to watch it then