7 year old received nerf gun for birthday!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would be furious at the parent who thought this was an acceptable gift.

I have 5yo and 7yo boys. Their favorite toys are light sabers and nerf guns. I have been gifting nerf guns. Stop being no fun.

An appropriate parent would ask if those are ok. Don't be mad if they disappear when you ask a few weeks later about them. If my kid wants to play with a sword, fine, they take fencing lessons. Its not ok to randomly go shooting at others.

[Anonymous]

"I would be furious at the parent who thought this was an acceptable gift."

You are nuts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"I would be furious at the parent who thought this was an acceptable gift."

You are nuts.

+1 Do you have sons? Just to be clear, I was anti nerf gun for many years and swore my children would never play with these dangerous toys. Then my oldest turned about 6 and life got real. A few years later we have many and my 6 yo DD even has a hot pink one. I don't know a single one of DS's friends who doesn't play with nerf guns. They wear eye protection or even water goggles. Loosen up and join them sometime! They can be really fun.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OFFS
My 3 year old uses sticks as guns at the park. It's ingrained male behavior.

Well that isn't true at all. Do you live in West Virginia backwoods?

A nerf gun isn't a big deal though. It isn't a real fake gun.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would be furious at the parent who thought this was an acceptable gift.

Oh please. Not everyone follows your rules. How would they know you ban such toys?

+1

I know a lot of parents who don't allow the majority of toy guns but they are all okay with most types of nerf guns & super soakers because a) they don't even resemble real guns & b) kids shooting foam or squirting water at each other is different than kids pretending to shoot each other with a bullets/ deadly weapons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would be furious at the parent who thought this was an acceptable gift.

I have 5yo and 7yo boys. Their favorite toys are light sabers and nerf guns. I have been gifting nerf guns. Stop being no fun.

An appropriate parent would ask if those are ok. Don't be mad if they disappear when you ask a few weeks later about them. If my kid wants to play with a sword, fine, they take fencing lessons. Its not ok to randomly go shooting at others.

PP here. For my older child's 4th birthday, my friend bought him a pair of laser guns that shot up little insect robots. I was a little upset at the time. I was anti-gun back then. I have lost that battle. We have water guns, nerf guns, plastic bow and arrows, light sabers, pirate swords, and minecraft foam weapons. They also have tons of legos, science kits, sporting equipment, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I loved Nerf weapons as kid! Let him have some fun, OP.

Me too. Eye protection.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would be furious at the parent who thought this was an acceptable gift.

I have 5yo and 7yo boys. Their favorite toys are light sabers and nerf guns. I have been gifting nerf guns. Stop being no fun.

An appropriate parent would ask if those are ok. Don't be mad if they disappear when you ask a few weeks later about them. If my kid wants to play with a sword, fine, they take fencing lessons. Its not ok to randomly go shooting at others.

I agree but my children (& the friends they play with when using nerf guns) know not to randomly shoot at others. They only shoot (foam, not actual or even pretend bullets) at each other, not at random people or even at friends or siblings who are not participating in whatever game they are playing at that moment.

[Anonymous]

Why not ask a parent if they are ok with it rather than getting it and causing an issue? I would not allow them in my home and if I find out my kid is playing with them in your home, they will not be going back. Its not ok given the world we live in.

[Anonymous]

OP, I thought I'd never allow my kids to have need blasters, though I recall them being cool when I was a kid. Didn't own a nerf blaster (did recieve a cap gun once though), parents didn't own guns, and we still don't own guns.

Then I read this article and I began to change my mind:

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/08/keeping-kids-from-toy-guns-how-one-mother-changed-her-mind/278518/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why not ask a parent if they are ok with it rather than getting it and causing an issue? I would not allow them in my home and if I find out my kid is playing with them in your home, they will not be going back. Its not ok given the world we live in.

I don't know one elementary boy who doesn't like nerf guns. the op said herself that her son liked the toy. I gave a $40 star wars nerf gun the last party we went to. I thought it was a nice gift.

[Anonymous]

Why not ask a parent if they are ok with it rather than getting it and causing an issue? I would not allow them in my home and if I find out my kid is playing with them in your home, they will not be going back. Its not ok given the world we live in.

Personally I would not buy another child a nerf gun as a gift, because I don't know what someone else's view on them is. But I am not taking them out of my own home in order to appease a visitor. If you don't want your kid to play with them at my house, tell him he isn't allowed to, and he can convey that to us. Done.

[Anonymous]

You will lose this war, OP. And if you don't, then your son will enlist at 18 so he can finally use a gun. Ask me how I know?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Why not ask a parent if they are ok with it rather than getting it and causing an issue? I would not allow them in my home and if I find out my kid is playing with them in your home, they will not be going back. Its not ok given the world we live in.

Personally I would not buy another child a nerf gun as a gift, because I don't know what someone else's view on them is. But I am not taking them out of my own home in order to appease a visitor. If you don't want your kid to play with them at my house, tell him he isn't allowed to, and he can convey that to us. Done.

This is where we stand too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is not acceptable. I'd tell my child that it is not an appropriate gift for a 7 year old and put it away. Or, let it disappear.

You're a total killjoy.

Don't worry, Hillary will save us the evil gunzzz!!

I'm as liberal as they come, strongly support gun control & think the anti-nerf posters are being rather ridiculous.