One damn proud daddy!

[Ruezim]

So my oldest son just turned three last April and over the last few months I have been carrying more. He has noticed so I decided to start introducing him to guns. So we talked about what he is to do if he sees one. He has gotten very good at it. If you ask him what part of a gun to never touch he proudly will point to the trigger and say trigger .

We were at my parents house the other day with my sister and her two kids. Her youngest who is eight days older then my oldest decided he wanted to build a gun out of legos. My son seeing this comes trotting over to me in another room and informs me that the cousin has a gun. My son informs me that it is real. So we go to see, so I go over the toy versus real gun concept again with him and thank him for telling me. He then looks at me and says "Daddy he is touching the trigger." Explain that since it is a toy it's ok as my nephew is now running around making the classic pew pew pew sounds. My poor liberal gun control sister is looking embarrassed at her son for having fun with a gun. She informed me that she can not understand why he would do such a thing .

Like the title said I am one proud Daddy right now.

 

[Field Tester]

I love it!

 

[hso]

Good for you and your boy!

 

[bainter1212]

Nice!

 

[Yo Mama]

Kids are so much smarter than we think. Congrats on your kiddo knowing better than most adults.

As a side note, there are no toy guns in our home, just real ones. I don't want to confuse them.

 

[bannockburn]

Ruezim

Cute story! Your son is already way ahead of the curve when it comes to guns.

 

[25cschaefer]

I am trying to break my son of the bad habits he learned at daycare with toy guns, he is three and the other, older, boys would play cops and robbers. I still catch him pointing the toys at people but he knows not to touch 'daddy's' guns except when he asks. I am a gunsmith so there are guns around from time to time.
He has noticed that I carry concealed so he has started putting a water pistol in his waist band to be like me. He was pulling it out at the park to play in the fountain and a bicycle cop rode up that we knew and asked what his gun was for, he said, 'for shooting bad guys, like yours and daddy's.'

 

[Outlaw Man]

Sounds like your son is on the right track. Your pride is well deserved.

...a bicycle cop rode up that we knew and asked what his gun was for, he said, 'for shooting bad guys, like yours and daddy's.'

That's awesome.

 

[kvtcomdo]

Agree, you have a right to be proud.

Good parenting; training.

 

[vaupet]

must say, at the point my kids started shooting with "real guns" (air rifles for under 16 in Belgium), at the age of 9, the toy guns disappeared from the house, because of the four rules. "Never point a gun at something you're not willing to destroy".

So in our place, nobody gets shot, not even by a toy gun.

Tradeoff for the kids: they got to shoot the real thing, but have to get rid of the substitutes.

Keep up the good work

Peter

 

[Mousegun]

Take the lib sister out shootin'.

 

[Deltaboy1984]

Great Thread and my 16 year old daughter is upset she has to wait till she 21 to get her CCW. My wife a little perturbed she wants one. I have been very intentional about teaching her personal safety and gun ownership. I told her she could carry one of my folders and pepper spray till she got her permit plus we told her to turn them in to me on Sunday night since we have a Nanny State School system.

 

[tuna]

My daughter (4) was told by my brother in law that you aren't supposed to point a gun a people. My daughter promptly corrected him and said that you CAN point a gun at a bad guy, because you can shoot bad guys, and she was playing, and her brother was being the bad guy.
She also found my bb gun, and told me about it. When I quizzed her, she said she knew it was loaded because she didn't touch it, and unless she checks it the gun is loaded.
She is now my hunting partner. We don't get anything since she can't stop talking, but I can buy meat - I can't buy time in the woods hunting with my girl.