My 4yo said he wants to play GUNS 🫣 Help me
Ok so my 4yo is really into Ninja turtles and now the 3 ninjas movie from the 90s. These in my opinion are not appropriate but these are my husbands favorite cartoon growing up and he intro it to our son without mentioning it to me. Ok fine. We said you can pretend to punch/kick the air and as long as you don’t hit/kick people you can watch Ninja turtles. He agreed. So far no issues. It’s been a couple of weeks. So we’re playing Ninjas today with pretend swords. It’s going great and then all of a sudden my 4yo said he wants to play guns!! I asked where he learned that from. He said preschool. I asked from who he said he made it up. Then he said he didn’t know. I didn’t know what to say so I said I don’t like guns and I don’t want to play guns. Let’s play ninjas and we’ll talk about guns later. He was upset. He wants to play guns and shoot people. I said what happens when you shoot? He said the people fall down. What do I say? I also don’t want him to feel like he can’t come to talk to me about guns if for any reason he comes a real one later. I want to teach safety and also the consequences but age appropriately. Any tips? TIA!