“Wittingshire” on raising men

On Raising Men

This is an excellent post worth reading. Here’s the first paragraph:

When my boys were three and four, they spent a good bit of time patrolling the perimeter of the back yard with stick guns. One day they were making particularly gruesome sound effects and my feminine squeamishness, which I try to keep tamped down while mothering boys, got away from me. “I really don’t like you pretending to shoot people,” I told them.

“We’re not pretending to shoot people,” my older son said. “We’re shooting pretend people. Dangerous ones.”

Oh.

Read the whole thing.