Vacation - Testosterone
The next couple of campsites next to us held a group of families camping together. There were a lot of small children.
One morning I was cleaning up after breakfast and watching the kids from next door. There was a group of two and three year old boys, all with buzz cuts and still in their pajamas cruising their campsites and the surrounding areas together.
One in particular stood out. He was one of the smaller ones, definitely still two. He wore bright orange flannel pajamas with blue, red, yellow, and green dinosaurs printed randomly on the fabric. He carried a plastic machine gun, which he used to regularly and calmly mow down his two and three year old friends.
I mentioned to Chuck the jarring picture of flannel dinosaur pajamas juxtaposed with a plastic machine gun. He reminded me that we really don't know any little boys who haven't gone through that stage, whether they owned a plastic machine gun or not. A stick will do fine, as well as a plastic drill from a Fisher Price tool set, or even just holding a hand in the classic gun position.
One morning I was cleaning up after breakfast and watching the kids from next door. There was a group of two and three year old boys, all with buzz cuts and still in their pajamas cruising their campsites and the surrounding areas together.
One in particular stood out. He was one of the smaller ones, definitely still two. He wore bright orange flannel pajamas with blue, red, yellow, and green dinosaurs printed randomly on the fabric. He carried a plastic machine gun, which he used to regularly and calmly mow down his two and three year old friends.
I mentioned to Chuck the jarring picture of flannel dinosaur pajamas juxtaposed with a plastic machine gun. He reminded me that we really don't know any little boys who haven't gone through that stage, whether they owned a plastic machine gun or not. A stick will do fine, as well as a plastic drill from a Fisher Price tool set, or even just holding a hand in the classic gun position.
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