I am new to Open Carry and with a 3 year old, I know that as soon as I start I will inevitably get the two favorite questions she has right now: "What's that?" and "What are you doing with that?"
I'm all for straightforward education and was originally just planning on explaining to her that it is a gun. "A real gun" Yes, a real gun. "You can shoot bad guys with it?" It's very dangerous and can hurt people, but only if they are trying to hurt you, Mommy, or Daddy. It's only for grownups to use and you should not try to play with it. It's real and can hurt really bad. Yes, like the stove. I obviously am an advocate for educating and normalizing the guns so that the curiosity factor is eliminated, but at 3 years old I think "Only grownups can use it" is an adequate response.
How have you handled explaining the gun being so out there and normalizing it without having to worry about your kid going to preschool the next day and telling everybody that Daddy has a gun to shoot bad guys with?
I'm all for straightforward education and was originally just planning on explaining to her that it is a gun. "A real gun" Yes, a real gun. "You can shoot bad guys with it?" It's very dangerous and can hurt people, but only if they are trying to hurt you, Mommy, or Daddy. It's only for grownups to use and you should not try to play with it. It's real and can hurt really bad. Yes, like the stove. I obviously am an advocate for educating and normalizing the guns so that the curiosity factor is eliminated, but at 3 years old I think "Only grownups can use it" is an adequate response.
How have you handled explaining the gun being so out there and normalizing it without having to worry about your kid going to preschool the next day and telling everybody that Daddy has a gun to shoot bad guys with?
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