Saturday, May 31, 2008

Should we allow our children to play with toy weapons?


Children are like computers that are in the programming stage, they absorb every bits of information that are imputed in to them. If you should buy a toy weapon for your children, this weapon will be the symbol of encouragements and they will dream to make use of these weapons in the future. If you investigate the background of most of the terrorists in the world, you may find out that source of emulation for massacre and genocide ascribe right from their childhood. Many of these terrorists in one way or the other may have encounter toy weapons that they finally put into use.

Using our money to but toy weapons is like authorizing the destruction of these young juveniles. If you ask your child to put his/her hand into fire, will he/she do it or not? The child will put his/her hands in the fire, because he/she knows that the order is from her parents. You know that toy weapon can create wrong impression in the mind of our children. To use toy weapon especially when playing with other kids will create a permanent wrong childhood images in the mind of these children.

Therefore, it is not advisable to allow children to play with toy weapons. As a matter of facts, any child that is fund of using too much toy weapons could make such a child to lose interests towards his/her studies, which can affect academy statues of such a child. Also, it is advisable to allow a child to undergo moral scrutiny, that is to say, a child should be allowed to be strictly disciplined-morally. Moreover, I am not saying a child should not play with toy, but ordinary toy with age limit is different from toy created with the depiction and sculpture of reality-future armaments builder. The fact is, toy weapons can easily influence a child to use dangerous weapon, either at an earlier age or adolescent age. A saying goes that, "Experience is the best teacher." The teacher for most of these kids is their experience with the toy weapons-violence.

Toy weapons can cause danger in the hands of the children possessing the toys. In fact, some children are mistaken toy weapons for real weapons or real weapons for toy. Some of the weapons, such as M-16 and military weapons now resemble children toys. I was passing by a house and to my surprise, I saw little kids of age seven, having fun by shooting at each other. These toy bullets are as big as a pebble of stone. My major concern is the result of the occurrence, if the bullets mistakenly injure these kids. What will the parents say or do to the issue if it occurs? These kids have no money to buy toy weapons by themselves; of course, it is the overindulgent parents that are responsible for the proliferation brainwash of their children.

The responsibility of giving our children toy weapons depicts-clearly-the parents as the architect of their children future. Don't forget the saying that says that, "Discipline begins at home," the discipline that we'll give to our children we show in the type of the discipline that they will show in the future. However, another saying says that, " it takes a community of people to raise one child," passing messages to parents around the world will give prior knowledge of the danger that lies ahead tomorrow for the young toy weaponsters and the society in general. Their are still millions of children around the globe using toy weapons as a media for fun. *Instead of giving these children dangerous toys and non-dangerous toys, you can involve the children in interesting academic programs. The more you expose your children to academic learning programs that will increase their educational knowledge that will prepare them for what lies ahead in the future, the more your child is likely to become a genius. Step-by-step, you are building up a future IQ kid. Let's join our hands together to give our children the best training that they deserved and we should reduce the usage of toys. You never may know that the next generation will mitigate or if possible solve the issue of Global Warming, pollution, natural disasters, poverty etc.

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