From Barbie dolls to action figures, the range of toys available to kids is expansive. But when a kid picks up a play gun from the toy aisle, parents may pause to question whether or not plastic ...

Many parents don't want their kids to play with toy guns. Here's how they can enforce those boundaries. (Image: Getty; illustration by Aida Amer for Yahoo) “Here,” said a mom friend said last summer ...

Dave Stroup and his 3-year-old son had traveled to Ohio to see the solar eclipse with family friends, but it wasn’t just the celestial event that captured the little boy’s attention. As they sat ...

Many parents don’t like guns—real ones or toys. So even though we may know that playing with pretend guns is developmentally normal, our instinct whenever our kids start building guns out of LEGO ...

Frederick Rivara receives funding from NIH. Laura Prater does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has ...