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A week ago I pulled out my warhammer miniatures and my 5 year old picked the leader and started shooting and stabbing people. Then she proudly stated that he wa
by bcrosby95 6y ago
A week ago I pulled out my warhammer miniatures and my 5 year old picked the leader and started shooting and stabbing people. Then she proudly stated that he was "collecting dead people".
I was quite surprised because her normal play involves taking care of her baby dolls.
- jimktrains2 6y agoThe morbidity of children never ceases to amaze me. Death, in play at least, doesn't seem to frighten them. I guess its the same among adults, but it's interesting that make-believe and reality are seperable even at a young age. I don't think we adults give kids enough credit for how sophisticated they can be. (Probably because there are a lot of areas where they aren't and it's easier to just bucket them in whole.)
- emilecantin 6y agoOne thing I (thankfully) realized pretty early on when raising my kids is that they're fully-intelligent humans pretty much from the start. They just dont _know_ stuff, but their intelligence is all there from a much younger age than most people seems to think.