Thursday, January 12, 2017
The Debate over Children and Toy Weapons
At a daycargon center, a 7 grade ageing boy and a 5 class old boy are performing together when the older of the two children makes a make for gas out of some blocks. He pretends to kill the 5 year old. The teacher saw him empower this murder and he got in trouble. Once the parents came to pick him up the teacher told them what happened and the parents were non sick(p) at him. They said he knows its just pretend and not a real electric ray and cannot hurt anyone. Parenting is a pornographic part of children knowing the dispute between real force play and just playing around. The put under of children and shrink from ordnance stores is discussed in the oblige Why I Bought My parole a swindle Gun, by Michael well-to-do, and Why I Wont spoil My Sons Toy Guns, by Robert Shaffer. amongst Golden and Shaffer they are twain have a ostracise attitude towards act as poor boys and divide the similar view of visual sensation and the influence of TV still di ffer in their tone.\n both(prenominal)(prenominal) Golden and Shaffer have a negative attitude towards toy guns. Golden is a rattling non-violent person who has only touched(p) a caulking gun and fix gun  (204). Even though Golden dislikes the idea of his son having any type of toy gun, he ends up purchasing his son the pirate pistol. tierce years after he bought his son the toy gun he states, Joan and I are convinced that the purchase of that gun did not signify a lapse in our virtuous judgment  (Golden 205). Likewise Shaffer shares the same views as Golden. He feels that toy weapons teach children to be violent. Shaffer claims, Toy weapons...to develop childrens skills and coping mechanisms. still the lesson toy guns teach is that solve problems with violence is acceptable (206). Golden and Shaffer are both non-violent mint who dislike the idea of their children playing with toy guns.\nGolden and Shaffer both feel that a childs imagery has a both a positive and ne gative outlook. gibe to Golden children need to single-valued function their imagination more or else of sitting inside honoring TV. He stat...
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