Sep 03
We don’t own any video games. The twins don’t own any toy guns. The twins have never seen me or anyone else shoot (or even hold) a gun. They don’t hear us talk about guns in a positive or negative way.  Nevertheless, whenever we have dinner at Round Table Pizza, the first thing my twins do is make a beeline for the target practice video game in the arcade room. I’ve never given them any quarters for this game so they’ve actually never played it. They just pick up the guns and pretend to shoot at the screen. The only children I see playing this video game are boys. I’m undecided as to whether this fascination with toy gun play is hard-wired into a little boy’s brain or if boys are socialized into this behavior. My gut instinct is that it’s a combination of the two.

We don’t own any video games. The twins don’t own any toy guns. The twins have never seen me or anyone else shoot (or even hold) a gun. They don’t hear us talk about guns in a positive or negative way. 

Nevertheless, whenever we have dinner at Round Table Pizza, the first thing my twins do is make a beeline for the target practice video game in the arcade room. I’ve never given them any quarters for this game so they’ve actually never played it. They just pick up the guns and pretend to shoot at the screen.

The only children I see playing this video game are boys. I’m undecided as to whether this fascination with toy gun play is hard-wired into a little boy’s brain or if boys are socialized into this behavior. My gut instinct is that it’s a combination of the two.

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  1. kimber-leigh said: My boys would turn any and everything into a gun out of nowhere. It’s got to be a boy thing!
  2. bumbleeebeees said: I used to love those games. I thought I had a sort of Tomb-Raider-esque.
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