“Shooting” play

Okay, so little man is 2.5 years old and has been in daycare a year now. He absolutely LOVES his “school”. Talks about his friends and his teacher, it’s adorable and gives me peace that he’s at a good facility.HOWEVER. Over the last month or so he’s been fascinated with shooting things. Like using a cardboard paper towel holder and pointing at literally anything and going “boom boom! I shoot it.” We redirect, put him in timeout, etc. but he will always end up doing it again. Now, we are in Midwest USA and do own guns (safely locked away at all times) but we don’t ever watch violent videos or condone that kind of play. So he has to be getting it from daycare. Should we be concerned? Should we not be so hard on him? Ignore it? via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/3ppcRw5