Meghan Cox Gurdon: When parents and educators don't understand that boys will be boys

“Gosh, you have a lot of weapons,” said the visiting mother of a 5-year-old boy.

She had brought her son around to the home of an acquaintance for a weekend play date, and she didn’t like what she saw. The basement was strewn with books and balls and stuffed animals and Legos, but also with Nerf guns, pistols, muskets and the odd spiky medieval object carefully constructed by an older brother.