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boys, blood, and war
"Penny Gaines" wrote in message
... Do all boys go through this stage? It may not just be boys. Rose definitely went through a Viking stage, where she ran around the house in a plastic breastplate and helmet. She removed the horns because they weren't historically authentic. The sword was used, contrary to household rules, to settle disputes between siblings, and had to be put away. She has always been into Roman army stuff too. I always thought it was odd to have a girl interested in Roman armor, armaments, and battle tactics. To show her flexibility, she was Boudicca (who fought the Romans) for Halloween in 2002 -- see he http://www.geocities.com/cpetersky/Halloween02.html, with her armor and "fur" leggings and arm bands. Now she's a bit older, and she's interested in World War II. She finished Stephan Ambrose's book, "Citizen Soldier" recently. She also has really enjoyed the Lord of Rings (first in book form, and now all the movies) and all its swordplay. Boys seem to be more interested, though, in blood and guts and destruction for their own sake. Rose, I don't think, has that sort of interest. She's interested in how cool a sword looks, not whether or not it is jammed through someone's viscera. Warm Regards, Claire Petersky Home of the meditative cyclist: http://home.earthlink.net/~cpetersky/Welcome.htm New CD coming out this month! See: http://www.tiferet.net __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html |
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boys, blood, and war
Claire Petersky wrote in message oo.com...
"Penny Gaines" wrote in message ... Do all boys go through this stage? It may not just be boys. Rose definitely went through a Viking stage, where she ran around the house in a plastic breastplate and helmet. My daughter dressed up as Arwen one Halloween and between houses (we go out, come home, go out again, it's a close-knit neighborhood) she grabbed a plastic sword and did "Arwen the Elven Warrior Princess." (She's not much into authenticity yet as she's only 5.) She liked the combination of princess dress-up and armaments. She and the neighbor boys - one of which is a good 7 years OLDER than she - did some sword fighting on the front porch. I wish I'd photographed it. She was swinging a sword like she was born in the First Age. Boys seem to be more interested, though, in blood and guts and destruction for their own sake. My oldest boy has always been interested in weapons, destruction, car crashes and the like. At first it bothered me. But now that he's 8 and can read, he fleshes out his interest with non-fiction books about the Titanic, pirates, race cars, etc. So though sometimes he just seems interested in violence for its own sake, occasionally he learns something. Shhhh...don't tell him. ;-) My oldest also is just *hooked* on his computer game, "Need For Speed" One of his favorite things to do is to be the "bad guy" and run from the "police" in the game. I was being an intervening parent one day and I asked him about it. He rolled his eyes at me and said: "It's a *game* mom. I'm not a bad guy in real life!" Put me in my place! (From this game he has learned a lot about cars and wants to build them when he grows up. A future engineer, perhaps?) - Bev |
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boys, blood, and war
It's not all boys. Henry's not only not interested in the blood & guts thing,
he seems to be revolted by it. He won't even come in the same room with me when I'm watching "Law and Order," "CSI" or "ER." It's not that he minds violence or personal injury -- he and his dad love to wrestle and things get pretty intense when they do that -- it's not uncommon for someone to inadvertently draw blood, and when that happens Henry is not at all phased. They just finished studying the civil war in class and he couldn't have cared less. Just one more data point... -Dawn Mom to Henry, 11 |
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boys, blood, and war
"Claire Petersky" wrote in message
o.com... Boys seem to be more interested, though, in blood and guts and destruction for their own sake. Rose, I don't think, has that sort of interest. She's interested in how cool a sword looks, not whether or not it is jammed through someone's viscera. I get that same reaction with DS. He is interested in the weapon, how it works, how it looks, but not so much in what happens when it is used on people except that he wins his Age of Empires scenario. I think, for him, the weapons are very removed from the reality. -Aula -- see my creative works on ebay under http://snurl.com/369o and on zazzle at http://snurl.com/38oh |
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