It's amazing how quickly people take it to heart when someone says something not so nice about a celebrity they like. Some of the threads on Angelina or Mannistan, holy shit people, get a grip, it's not worth getting that hot and bothered about, it's celebrity gossip, something for shits and giggles!
Anyhow, back to the regularly scheduled subject, I actually do have kids, and I totally plan on using that little two lettered word if my kid comes to me asking for a military party, it's called NO. Big bad mommy here. Yep, kids will make their own guns, swords and crap from toast, legos, I have a big fucking tree branch downstairs painted six different colours with knobs hammered into it, and labelled "machine gun, freeze ray, fire thrower, death ray" etc. because MIL wouldn't let DH have a gun. He made one, and he kept it. So be it, but there are issues that I won't be giving into and many parents don't, and surprise surprise, kids don't need therapy after it. Guns happen to be one of them. Years later, while DH keeps the gun as a sign of creative defiance to his mother (he's a scorpio, what can I say) he's absolutely opposed to toy guns in our home, is the chair of an internation organisation against violence, and is a pretty passive guy. War (real war, not a story made up by George Lucas or Tolkien) is not something I take lightly and would fashion a party after. And if you still doubt whether I'm serious, please check back in 18 years and you can ask my kids if I ever relented. *G*
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