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Do your boys fight with sticks, Nerf guns and fake swords all the time? Here’s why they do it
The Conversation, Vol.12 September 2024
2024
Appears in The Conversation
Abstract
As someone who has spent most of his professional life studying how children develop, I’m often asked by parents (especially mums) why children (especially boys) are prone to pick up the nearest stick, pencil, soft toy or even banana and turn them into weapons?
Details
- Title
- Do your boys fight with sticks, Nerf guns and fake swords all the time? Here’s why they do it
- Authors
- Michael C Nagel (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Education and Tertiary Access
- Publication details
- The Conversation, Vol.12 September 2024
- Publisher
- Conversation Media Group
- Date published
- 2024
- DOI
- 10.64628/AA.g3ee7smg9
- ISSN
- 2201-5639
- Copyright note
- © The Conversation Media Group. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Organisation Unit
- School of Education and Tertiary Access; Engage Research Lab
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991062498302621
- Output Type
- Magazine article
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