Things with which children who are being raised in a house where we don’t have guns and we don’t like killing will chase and beat each other:
Agapanthus stalks gathered on the walk back and forth from the bus. Indesctructible, no?
Yoga mat.
Knee-high East African fertility doll. Quite heavy and extremely noisy when it hits the ground.
Rolled up, poster-sized, laminated copy of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
adelaide from adelaide 
lol at the last one there!
Perhaps these are the WMD that Bush et al were referring to? Who needs chemical warfare when you can wield a firmly rolled prayer mat?
I refused to let the boys have guns but after a street duel involving four houses and several hoses, I had to give in for water pistols. I am going back to the days when we actually had rain in the weather pattern.
So how often does the fertility doll hit the ground?
I know, the water pistols is almost a different thing. But they’re even more weapons-ish these days. Still, as you pointn out, it’s a dry argument these days.
How often does the fertility doll hit the ground? Heh.
You know you’re the parent of boys when your child bites his vegemite toast into a gun shape and shoots his brother.
Yeah, I hardly notice the toast gun anymore. Mortified the first time I saw it, but now. Meh. At least while they’re eating breakfast I’m not trying to get them to put their bloody shoes on.
of course, at my house, it was jam on toast
(she says shyly)
At my house, my brother and I used to just tackle our older sister to the floor and fart on her head.
blackbird – strawberry or apricot?
and audrey, that still happens too. And then did you laugh like no one ever thought of doing it before?