I'm not sure how well it will show up here, but it involves violence of many kinds. And includes his sister. He was impressed with himself and thought it was funny and fairly unremarkable. Bryce and I puzzled over it though with half nervous laughter, wondering if we should be worried or what. I mean, what the hell? When I was his age, I remember drawing pictures of rainbows and sunshine and an inch of blue sky at the top of every page.
So I brought it up one day with a couple of friends who both have boys older than Porter. I described the picture, and they just nodded. Totally normal boy stuff. One friend showed me some pictures from her boys that looked amazingly similar, with people falling off cliffs and shooting guns. I even googled it, and read blog entries just like this one, with people wondering what happened to their sweet boy that only ever watched PBS. Who knew? Boys. It's a whole new world.
We've seen pictures like that too... lots of bullets, battles, death, etc... from Arvid. I don't rember my brother drawing like that when we were young, but I guess I probably didn't pay close attention either. Glad to see he's so well "protected" in his picture (assuming he's the figure in the middle w/the force field). Arvid's photos were a lot like this around the same age, now there are more ninja's (still w/death & fight sceens), but fewer bullets than before so maybe that's good? It must be a boy thing - Linnea only draws people smiling holding hands with flowers and lots of sparkles (which look like big lumps on everything).
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