Angelina Jolie's played a gun-toting woman on screen and is a weapon-wearing mama off camera. For a recent Entertainment Weekly interview and photo shoot, the stunning soon-to-be mother of six wore a gun charm necklace that her eldest son, Maddox designed. She said:
''Mad, our 6-year-old, draws lots of war scenarios,'' she explains. ''He's all into war and guns. So for Mother's Day he drew a machine gun, and Brad had it made into a necklace, which is really sweet. It's really cute. I think it's really good!''
While there's nothing better than a homemade gift for mom, is jewelry in the likeness of a fully automatic firearm taking the notion too far?
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Laura Clement
As a parent you need to think very carefully about the messages you send to your child and the habits you reinforce.
1A gun drawing? perfectly natural, if not entirely desirable. Choosing to immortalize that drawing in gold and give it as a present? a dubious honor.
People kill people and they do it with many things including guns and so please let us not pretend other wise. I grew up in their presense and now own some. I also am a vegetarian and so that should paint the picture clear that I do not have guns to for any other reason such as 1.my family life is in danger 2. and for the target shooting of cans and other inanimate objects.
I everday have seen people even on POP be more evil with words intent to damage the spirit just as a bullit can a body, and I have a feeling that many of them talking like they do are the biggest critics of Angie's view of ordinance just because it is Angie.
2I...dont really care.
And she has guns in almost all of her movies, so...
3Little boys love play with guns,so it not a big deal!
4It was drawing made by her son, there is nothing wrong with that IMO.
5cute necklace
6It's not "a fully automatic firearm", it's a necklace.
7it's not an either/or--people kill people and guns kill people. there is no doubt that guns give power to cowards, without which they would never act w/ such careless bravado. turning a picture of a gun drawn by your child into a piece of jewelry glorifies the object. she said her son likes to draw pictures of guns and war--why not turn the picture he drew of a bloody corpse into a charm for her necklace? it's not cute. and as a parent she should be more careful about the message she is sending to her children.
8I am not a mother. I have 2 kids who I adore and I'd do anything for them, I but them school supplies, toothbrushes, shampoos...
six years now and I refuse to give them pistols or guns not even a sword... If I am going to give them (or another kid) a present, I search for animals, colors, balls, I can't even make myself buy a water gun.
Maybe I'm paranoiac, but I think they had to learn that those aren't toys...
9I don't think it's a big deal at all. Most little boys are into some sort of war, military, type games. and most of them turn out fine, not gun toting psychos.
10Kids are going to hear and see things every where they go.
Whether it's saying hurtfull things or things like stealing. At some point kids will grow up and be exposed to the real world.
It's up to us as parents to show them how to be responsible. Just because you see and hear things doesn't mean you act on it.
So if you hear some stole something on the news, does that mean you and your family get up and steal something from the local store???
No, you explain the difference between right and wrong to your kids.
Stop trying to shelter kids and educate them instead. Step up to the plate as a parent & get involved with your kids.
11Kids are going to hear and see things every where they go.
Whether it's saying hurtfull things or things like stealing. At some point kids will grow up and be exposed to the real world.
It's up to us as parents to show them how to be responsible. Just because you see and hear things doesn't mean you act on it.
So if you hear some stole something on the news, does that mean you and your family get up and steal something from the local store???
No, you explain the difference between right and wrong to your kids.
Stop trying to shelter kids and educate them instead. Step up to the plate as a parent & get involved with your kids.
12don't overreacting here
I still thinks is weird, but I am in a dilemma... I don't know if it's weird that the kid is drawing pretty things like that or that the parents thinks is so cute that they make it a necklace...
I received a painting, it was a house, a boy and a girl named "Nadia and me", I would put that on my living room and make it a necklace.
it's not that we don't want them exposed to the real world, because they are, they see movies, and news, and a lot of TV, they play games, but, I can't celebrate that my little hickle darling is drawing war and guns, I can celebrate that he learn to draw.
but still, is the parents decision, they think is pretty, they hold on to it. Good for them.
13I have a necklace that is a septor and that does not make me a violent person. Its just a necklace and there are worse things in life that a little gold necklace.
14God made man, Sam Colt made em equal.
It seems alot of people want to be their kids friend and not the parent. They even back their kids when the are bad. I have taught gun safety for many years. I have have a number of mothers come to class saying that they we deathy afraid of guns and after they finish the class said they were very comfortable being around them and how to make rules for a safe house. Respect for other people and education is the way to go not burying our heads in the sand. We have to realize that a small percentage of the population are perverts who pray on inocent people. I don't think I would break into Angelina's house.
Learn how to defend youself and your family!
15*then
16I can understand parents wanting to shelter their children from thoughts of violence by not allowing them to play with toy guns or knives or any other weapon, after all its their prerogative.
I also have no problem with parents letting thier kids have toy guns, knives, lightsabers, etc because they dont think it is unhealthy (i agree with them)
There are parents out there that dont explain the difference between play and real and those people scare me. I had some little boys in my aftercare at the YMCA and every day the three of them would just go nuts and try to beat the living sh*t out of some other poor child (they were all kindergartners) after about two times of time out I asked them what they were doing, why they were doing it, and they said they were power rangers and thats what power rangers do...when the parents came and I explained the discipline I had to take they just laughed and said "kids will be kids" One of those kids, held up a pregnant woman at knife point and stole her car last year.
17boys will be boys. as long as you educate them about the dangers of guns, its a really cute idea!
18We weren't allowed to have toy-guns as kids. We didn't even have waterpistols. My brother has never played any war/crime/violence-videogames, neither have I or my sister.
Some of my best friends are from Bosnia and we had many kids from there in elementary-school in mid-90's. Those classmates had actually seen war, how horrible it would have been for them if we would have actually played war on school-breaks?
I just can't see the point making war or deadly weapons "cool" for kids. There are certainly many other things from which you can get excitement and adrenaline running.
19My brother played guns all the time when he was a kid then he became a champion target shooter then a Marine now he works for a video game designer. He is my dad's other family but he is older than me and very nice to me and my mom always said he'd grow up bad and danegerous and he is very sweet and rich and she is nice too but should say she is sorry to him for all the bad words. He is fine and I have a nephew now too.
20pax must feel very good about having designed a necklace that his mom wears
good for
her! i love my kids but we just go the maccaroni route here because i cannot afford the other kind, lol.
21Guns don't kill people...PEOPLE kill people....with guns, yes, but also with knives, cars, poison, axes, etc....
22Her son made it for her, there is nothing wrong with it.
I have to say. This is the 1st time that I have written on the web. Mostly because I can't spell!
23I feel that all the people that wrote in are well meaning people with some good comments. Thankyou!
I grew up with three brothers and two sisters. We pretended to be cowboys, war soldiers, James Bonds, cops and robbers, and even fought creatures from outer space. None of us grew up to be violent people. All children play make-believe. Does a police officer's child become violent just because his parent owes a gun? I wonder if this would be such a big deal if it wasn't about Angelina. Leave the woman alone. She seems to be a wonderful, loving mother. She helps spread peace and awareness around the world.
24Honestly it is a big deal. He drew a gun for her on Mother's Day and Brad made it a necklace. There showing him that guns are okay and that mommy really likes it. When he's 14 and 24 he's gonna wanna play with real ones. Not that he's going to go out and shoot someone but what if he has kids and there's an accident. Promoting guns and your a U.N. ambassador is contradictory.
I know that he's exposed to his country's history and where he came from and that's probably where it came from but I think she wants to be this totally hip parent at the expense of her boys.
25Not saying she's a bad mom i just don't like the gun thing!
26I can't go back to this crazy post in PopSugar, so I'll comment here. I have a 6 year old who can at times be obsessed with guns and battles and the like. It scared me when he first started at 4 (picked up in nursery). The teachers didn't ignore it or laugh it off but they also didn't want to stifle the child's creativity by freaking out over the games they were playing. I have come to realize that boys are drawn to such things, but we are constantly talking about what is real and pretend. I tend to ignore some of the games and pictures and bring the focus on to something else. I have a hard time with the necklace and the encouragement here by Brad and Angie. Fine, they don't want to forbid it but I wouldn't further encourage it.
27I like Angelina Jolie ,always have as i think she is very unique with her candor and her rare beauty is a plus.
28The gun drawing made into jewalry from her 6 yr old son is what it is. My son played with swords,drew pics of swords but today as a young man swords are the last thing on his mind. Hes fine a son to be proud of. Parents teach their kids the right and wrong about weapons as i beleive Angelina and Brad have instilled in their sons mind so no worries.
her face looks so deformed in those pictures, especially the first one.
29The main problem with it is since Angelina has one, all moms will want one. I don't find anything horrible about play guns, but this is a bit much.
30Frankly, this equals keeping gun drawing of our own children on the fridge or any other place we keep them on display. Only Brad and Angie have munny so they turn drawings to gold LOL
31Humankind is just too obsessed with thinking that celebrities must be... perfect by everyone's rules and standards...
how stupid
32Angelina is the biggest hypocrite of our time.
Doing the whole UN thing in combination with shooting movies (wanted) about killing people and promoting guns and war in her home is just one example.
33
hypocritical is the word that springs to mind for some strange reason....
34If her kid was drawing syringes full of heroin, should she have that made into a necklace too?
35Considering gun movies make the most money for Brad and Angie movies, I gues they would indulge their kids in gun play.
I hope they at least teach them gun safety and responsibility at some point.
36there is no shame in guns
37my dad was a cop and we were raised with them
i think i was a better shot at 9 then i am today
the important thing is the both parents teach their kids that real guns are not for play (they kill) and how to practice gun safety
to follow through with our gun safety training my dad use to let my little brother play with toy guns as long as he never pointed them at anyone
parents and education are the key
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