If you are going to take away war toys, then what are you to replace them with? Children need to feel courageous, brave, and assertive. They need to feel strong; that is the purpose of their play.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Games can be art, and they can be significant and all the glorified things that we want them to be. But if you ask a kid if their toys are important, they'll say 'yes,' and 'Please don't take them away.'
Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.
I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.
A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.
Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout 'Bang!'
When my kids were toddlers, they had all these rotomolded plastic things. My life became surrounded by big, hollow plastic toys - from the scale of playhouses down to rocking horses, and everything in between - which we would then take to the secondhand store. But we'd get sentimentally attached and hate to see them go.
My husband and I are big givers to charity, and we are teaching our son Barron all about giving his old toys away to children who might not have any.
Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
Once upon a time, soft toys were for babies. Now they're taken for granted as a feature of adult life.
I've been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.
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