In the 6 to 12yearold period,children will play an earnest game of war,but it has lots of rules.There may be arguments,but real fights are relatively rare.At this age children don’t shoot at their mother or father,even in fun.It’s not that the parents have turned stricter;the children’s own conscience has.In adolescence aggressive feelings become much stronger,but well broughtup children can turn them into athletics and other competition or into kidding their friends.
In other words,I’d explain that playing at war is a natural step in the disciplining of the aggression of young children;that a cautious parent doesn’t really need to worry about producing a criminal.
But nowadays I’d give parents much more encouragement to guide their child away from violence.A number of incidents have convinced me of the importance of this.
One of the first things that made me change my mind,several years ago,was an observation that an experienced nursery school teacher told me about.Her children were hitting each other much more than previously,without reason.When she talked to them,they would protest,“But that’s what the Three Stooges do.”(This was a children’s TV program full of violence which immediately became very popular.)
What further shocked me into reconsidering my view was the assassination(暗杀) of the former President,and the fact that some schoolchildren cheered about this.(I didn’t so much blame the children as I blamed the kind of parents who will say about a President they dislike,“I’d shoot him if I got the chance!”)
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