Well, I did it…I broke down and bought DS a weapon. Me, the staunch liberal, “we don’t even pretend to hurt people or animals”. My step-dad, Mr Green, will probably be horrified.<\/p>\n
He’s finally gotten into the “I want to pretend to shoot at things” mode and I decided to go with the Lawrence Cohen\/Playful parenting approach and let go of what are probably MY hangups and “join him” rather than shutting him down. After all, he really IS old enough to know the difference between actually shooting live animals and shooting a piece of burlap with paint on it.<\/p>\n
But at least it is a COOL weapon. It’s a PSE Polaris bow with 6 carbon arrows. Since we are both left-eye-dominant, we can even share a bow.<\/p>\n
(You can tell with the following exercise – we just figured out yesterday it works with mirrors too. Stand either in front of another person or in front of a mirror. Hold your hands facing away in an “L” shape but with all fingers open. Move them together to form a small triangular hole. Now, look at the other person (or yourself in the mirror) through the hole with both eyes open. The eye that is visible to the person\/in the mirror is your dominant eye – the eye you use to determine object placement).<\/p>\n
There is a local (free) range about 15 minutes away where we can shoot at hay bales with pictures of animals drawn on them. It’s actually pretty fun.<\/p>\n
Now, not being a particularly “cool” person, I’m wondering why the bow is so cool, when even water guns annoy me. Part of it is the reaction I get from others that are “alternative” moms. I’m expecting … judgement and instead I get looks of approval. (except from my husband. I was hoping it would awaken a deep seated urge to have this as a common interest with our son. Not so far. Hmmpfh). Kind of strange. The other part though, is that it is so……traditional? It shows up in everything from history to fantasy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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