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[quote=Anonymous]I suggest get used to it and use it as a teaching opportunity to talk to your kids about why you don't like it and why you're going to trade in that gift for something else if you don't want toy guns in your house.  I didn't like it at first but I've come to learn it's just going to be that way with boys and [unfortunately] it seems to be age appropriate and ok and it doesn't mean they'll be violent people.  If you stop to think about it they're really around a lot of the boy toys these days (legos, superheros, etc. even if not an actual toy gun).

Much to my dismay my boys play guns and grenades with their friends using sticks and their imaginations.  One even made his own gun with some highlighters he found at the house the other day.

I do say I don't like guns, I don't want to hear about them, etc. but I have given up saying I don't want to them to imaginary play with them, etc.

On your thank you note you can say thanks for thinking of me and celebrating with me.[/quote]

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