Toy Weapons for Toddlers: Guns, Swords, and Axes, Oh, My!
-You never hit people with toy weapons. Next, while we do allow shooting of people with toys in a pretend play way–who didn't play cow boys and Indians as a kid?–, swords hit other swords not people, and projectiles point away from people, etc. It should be understood that even a toy can hurt someone. Hitting in general is simply not allowed.
-Use every weapon as an educational opportunity. It's all well and dandy to claim weapons have real life uses, but you also need to teach your toddler those uses. With each new toy be sure to talk about what that weapon is and isn't used for. These may seem like lofty concepts for a toddler, but they sink in even if they may not be fully grasped until much later.
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