Jamie is fully into the gun phase now. Except that we don't have guns in this house. We have blasters. This is our way of dealing with the irresistible force of the fascination with weapons. He will now transform any object into a "blaster" and go around the house "pew-pow-pew"ing away. Fortunately Jamie's other current obsession is Star Wars, so he is happy to let our all-important semantic distinction pass more or less unremarked. He is also, like Luke Skywalker, very firm in his opposition to the Dark Side, so that's reassuring too.
Actually, Jamie is very good at drawing the line between real and imagined. He feels an enormous pull towards shows that are really for older kids, especially those featuring battles of some kind. We have to balance very carefully between his desires and what is appropriate, but he is actually pretty good about being self-aware and telling us when something is too scary for him. He is also quite able to understand the distinction between real and make-believe on which the blaster/gun separation is based.
The other day in the car he heard something about World War II on the radio and asked if he could watch a show about it. Well, I said that's something that's going to have to wait until you're a little older because it's kind of a grown-up subject and can get pretty scary. He seemed to accept this and then thought for a moment before asking, "Are there any kids' World War II shows?"
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I remember last year sitting at the library with Jamie looking at a Batman or Spiderman comic book and expressing concern about how scary it was; He reassured me that it is only a story.
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