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In our country, the vast majority of parents are calm about military toys. Such is the tradition that has developed from many wars, when our ancestors had to defend themselves and their families from cruel enemies. Such is the struggle between good and evil.
Toy machines, tanks, and soldiers have firmly entered the children's life of more than one generation of Russian children. You begin to understand how militarized the childhood of our children is, only by seeing the upbringing of children abroad.
Perhaps that is why our boys grow up such fighters. However, this does not remove the main question: do children need such toys in principle? Toys, the "adult" analogues of which have one function - to kill.
Should children be accustomed from infancy to the need to use extreme violence from infancy? It turns out that we purposefully prepare children for this?
It is no coincidence that pacifism and humanization in education resonates with many parents. The result of such public opinion is the announcement of "World Day for the destruction of military toys."
Of course, violence is strife, while protecting your family and your homeland it is more than justifiable and justified, but is it not too early to start preparing children to show the very categorical rigidity, after which there is no turning back?
Why do we not teach with the same zeal to play, for example, in negotiations, and not in war? We do not believe that this is possible? We think, why waste time and energy on useless?
Proponents of children's military toys usually give the following arguments:
- the world is cruel, it is necessary to train fighting qualities, and pacifism is a kind of escape from reality, therefore it is better to educate a warrior and defender;
- violence is predetermined by human nature, boys cannot live without battles and wars. Weapons give strength and power, and this attracts children;
- these are role-playing games that teach boys to make decisions quickly, endure pain, and be courageous. For boys - this is the training of behavior models in extreme situations, initiation;
- toy weapons have always been, and nothing, we have grown normal;
- playing war is a good way to let off steam, relieve aggression, plus running around outdoors;
- the rigidity of virtual games, where there is much more blood, violence and a sense of superiority, significantly exceeds the brutality of ordinary games in war;
- war games teach to transform into real heroes, in addition, the game is different from reality, and children understand this;
- war games are only copying those models of behavior that an adult society offers, and to protect good or evil they will be directed depends on the attitudes of society.
Everything is so, I’ll add that today it’s not only a question concerning boys exclusively. As long as there are wars in the world, such games will be. And if you start to fight this, then from the control of virtual games. There is complete mess! There are thousands of games where some “assassin” spreads the heads of “enemies” hundreds of times an hour, spraying bloody brains on the device’s screen - pure violence, with a clear deforming effect on the child’s psyche. Do we parents want to prepare our children for this?
I have great respect for military service and the profession, but when I saw the war nearby, my favorite childhood game “in the soldiers” somehow lost its charm
Real weapons in the hands of children 10-12 years old in Africa or Afghanistan convincingly show that children do not fully understand what real death is.
Of course, you can learn how to play with toy weapons. Do not do harm, do not direct the barrel in the face, teach how to protect, not force, teach how to use it and when not.
The question arises - at what age do you need to start cultivating a “habit of killing"? This is what triggering the trigger. We protect children from matches, we are afraid to give them a kitchen knife until a certain age, but we don’t mind if the baby pulls the toy machine (yet) on the trigger. We just don’t think about what habit we are forming.
A person needs to be taught to handle weapons, if necessary. Only after he has a clear awareness: "A weapon is not a toy."
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