You played “Army” with toy guns, and never got kicked out of school for it. You played dodgeball and “tackle ball” on the playground at recess, and survived.
And every child ate peanut butter sandwiches, and none died of peanut allergies.
I just spent the weekend at an area wide campout with 250 of my closest friend, the vast majority of which were young men ages 5-18, (See my tagline for a big clue)
On Friday night, a whopper of a storm came through so they moved the kids into a gym for an hour. I was doing something else but I heard that a game of dodge ball with 250 kids is pretty exciting.
The next day, during a few minutes of free time, I walked over to a baseball field. There were about 25 5-7 year old boys playing kickball. Without a ball. It actually looked like they were playing an actual game.
Some of the organized challenges included an obstacle course, big slip and slide down a hill (soapy water) knife and tomahawk throwing and a bunch of other stuff.
In other words, those boys were boys.
We dealt with a nosebleed and skinned knee. I’m sure some other First Aid kits came out too.
Bummer. Boys...deal with it.