A curious thing has begun to happen with my 5 year old DS. He's obsessed with soldiers and military things. I have no idea where it came from, since he's had little to no exposure to it. Last weekend, we had our pastor and his family over for dinner. They have four boys, ages 5-10. They all played in the back yard while the adults talked inside. We looked out at one point and all the kids were sitting in a semi-circle around my DS (the youngest boy there) and he seemed to be giving out orders. Later, they were all saluting him. We asked him after they left what he was playing. He said that they were soldiers and he was the captain. Huh? How did he learn that?
I talked to a friend recently about it and her advice was "Don't fight it. It's built into them. They don't have to get it from anywhere." She said that with her 3 year old son, when he starts playing soldier, she emphasizes that he's the protector or the hero. I like that. That is how God made males, right? They're the protectors - why not encourage that? Vanquishing the bad guys. Why fight it. Dobson says that if you take every weapon away from your boys, they'll turn a peanut butter sandwich into a gun.
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