I see myself as a pacifist and yet I've got a boy who is obsessed with guns and shooting (well, "pewing" is the term) and Bad Guys. Felix sees bad guys everywhere. He pews them all day long, stomps them, runs from them or after them. There is definitely a love-hate relationship going on here. He wants to be the black spiderman for Halloween. The other morning on the way to school he asked, "Why are bad guys bad?". I was quiet while I struggled with the answer, wrestling with some inner-demons no-doubt, so Felix suggested in his let-me-quote-Mommy-voice, "Maybe we should get a book about that at the library today?" The librarian directed me to several books with titles such as: Patience; Tolerance; Kindness; and Why War is Not Good (which was a very touching and honest children's story). However, I'm still struggling with the question, as we all are really. Dana and I teased about it having something to do with conservatism and republicans...but I don't really think that. Perhaps the answer to that will be left to Felix's generation, along with our debt, bank bailouts and the disastrous affects of the Iraq war. Truth is, bad guys aren't all bad, good guys aren't all good, and until Marvel introduces the Not So Naughty Grey Spiderman, I'm just not sure how to explain that to a 3 year-old.
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From the picture it sure appears that Felix is on board 100% with regard to the effectiveness of "pewing," although cousin Rooney looks a little skeptical. They could be the yin and yang.
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