A reader asks our expert, the psychologist Anna Oliverio Ferraris, if it is right or not to give toy guns to children. A granddaughter has asked for as a gift a sword. And’ one of the questions arrive to the address book 100 experts of the Republic. You can send questions or requests for clarification on the health to our doctors by clicking here: https://www.repubblica.it/salute/esperti/

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The professor Oliverio Ferraris explains to lettice that the gifts that we do to children are a message we send them, and the context in which we make the gifts is equally important as well as the characteristics of the child. Give the gift of a sword can mean I like the weapons, I agree. It is different if fair in the country offers a water pistol or something.

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