I have a 10yo nephew who is obsessed with violence. It's all he talks about. He asks me and my father things like;
If I had a gun and you had a knife, could you kill me?
If I start doing weights now, would I be like the hulk?
Where is the best place to shoot someone?
He seems to live in a fantasy world, as me and my father have noticed.
He doesn't seem to have a dark side, he's always playing with my daughters or playing Call of Duty: Black Ops when I see him on the weekends. He watches You Tube a lot.
He is very skinny and I don't think he has a lot of friends in school. He hates school, he hates his teacher. He says she picks on him for no reason. Which could be true as my sister has had personal problems with her and the school. He gets bullied at least a bit. There is one big boy who gets mentioned a lot, they have fought at least twice.
He has never had a father really, I think he looks to my father and me for guidance, but I don't see him that much. When I do see him, maybe once a week, he is really excited to see me and he usually has something violence-related to ask or tell me.
My mother, who sees him a lot more than me, brushes it off with "It's just a boy thing". But I'm not sure and I'm worried he is influencing my daughters, one of which is two years younger than him and play-fights with him all the time.
I have talked with my mother about sending him to Karate lessons to give him some discipline and a taste of real-world defense fighting.
Is encouraging the fighting with Karate the right thing to do?
Should I be worried about him and possibly my daughters?
or is this normal behavior?
