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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks to everyone. This is helpful for me and I'm definitely going to rethink how I've been going about this. DH and I have talked to him about never playing guns at school because the teachers have ASKED us to discuss it with him (I'd love for them to handle it on their own at school, but they've involved us deliberately). I think I will allow his imagination to dictate if he plays guns or not instead of saying "NO" every time it presents itself. Just not sure if I can take the leap to buy him toys that look like guns, even water guns. 
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He's probably doing this at school all the time because it's so forbidden in the house.  Making it something that your son feels he should be ashamed of for liking or needs to hide it from you is definitely not your end-goal.  This is why I fully supported my DD's over-the-top Disney princess phase.  Sure, it didn't exactly fit my vision of the strong, confident woman I wanted DD to grow up to be.  But I never thought that by supporting her I was doing something wrong, just like you letting your son play with Nerf guns or whatever isn't supporting the NRA.  She just liked fancy clothes.  Your son just likes to pretend to shoot things.  It's OK.

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This. You are SO strict with it at home, he is doing it where he can. My kids have Nerf guns, Nerf cross bows, and Nerf water guns. Guess how often they play with them? Almost never. We insisted that they wear safety glasses and no head shots. They pull them out as the last toys. It’s just not a big deal.

The reason people grow up to be killers has nothing to do with Nerf.[/quote]

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