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I've got a 3.5 year old boy running around here. He's gotten very interested in the gun concept, probably from playing with some older boys at the daycare and perhaps a cartoon he's seen that might've slipped our attention. He sometimes plays with finger guns, anything L-shaped is picked up with "pew pew" sounds and when my wife went to a yard sale with him, he was probably close to pooping his pants when he saw the big box with broken Nerf guns. My wife had to buy one for a dollar and he's been giving it much attention. He's also a champion of violating all 4 rules simultaneously.
In any case, he's very enthusiastic about it and we have multiple guns in the house, safely stored of course. He's not aware of these, neither of my CC, but as he's a smart little kid, he'll put 1 and 1 together some day. Some day soon probably. Right now he's too young to understand what to talk about and what not in which company, plus it'll be a lot of new stuff, so I wonder how you all dealt with exposing your kids for the first time. I'm just looking to learn from different experiences, I think there are many suitable approaches, but I need some inspiration, also to sync up with the mrs, so we're on the same page.
Any advice or experience is welcome, especially stuff about what you did, what boundaries, did you have some phased approach to it, which ages did you start doing/showing what, etcetera, etcetera. Anything is welcome, I just want to learn.
Cheers and thanks in advance!
PS. I didn't grow up in the US, or around guns, so I have no first hand experience in this matter.
In any case, he's very enthusiastic about it and we have multiple guns in the house, safely stored of course. He's not aware of these, neither of my CC, but as he's a smart little kid, he'll put 1 and 1 together some day. Some day soon probably. Right now he's too young to understand what to talk about and what not in which company, plus it'll be a lot of new stuff, so I wonder how you all dealt with exposing your kids for the first time. I'm just looking to learn from different experiences, I think there are many suitable approaches, but I need some inspiration, also to sync up with the mrs, so we're on the same page.
Any advice or experience is welcome, especially stuff about what you did, what boundaries, did you have some phased approach to it, which ages did you start doing/showing what, etcetera, etcetera. Anything is welcome, I just want to learn.
Cheers and thanks in advance!
PS. I didn't grow up in the US, or around guns, so I have no first hand experience in this matter.