who was it that aruged with tom sellek over his rights as a gun owner on her show rosie and rosie blasted him she didn’t believe guns had any good coming out of them and how dare him own one. and then have her daughter have the whole soldier outfit on guns and fake ammo yes kids play dress up but to take pictures she knows that millions of people see is disgusting to make a point to whoever at that moment she wanted to do it to why dosen’t she take a picture of herself and post it she is using her kids as showthings and it makes me sick to people who she upsets that are deranged she is putting those kids at risk and as a parent of a child not in the public eye keeping your children safe and not putting them out there in situations they did not ask for is wrong playing dress up is no crime but endagiring your kids in the world the way it is today is .

she is just a obnoxious stupid human being

ANOTHER DUMB MOVE BUY HER WHAT A SHOCK YES SOMETIMES A KID PLAYING DRESS UP IS A NORMAL THING EVEN AS A SOLDIER BUT SHE PUTS SOMETHING UP ON HER WEBSITE THAT MOST PEOPLE DONT AND THEN LIKE A INNOCENT LITTLE GIRL WONDERS WHY PEOPLE SAY WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT HER TO ME SHE IS NOTHING BUT A BASIC COWARD LIKES TO MAKE TROUBLE AND YET IF IT DOSEN’T GO HER WAY CLAIM THEY HATE ME BECAUSE I AM GAY DONALD TRUMP AND ELISABETH HASSELBAK SHOULD GET TOGETHER AND KICK HER ASS AND MABY THAT WILL GET SOME SENSE IN HER BRAIN

I’m with some of the others here. The problem with this photo is that Rosie claims to be anti war and anti guns. Yet she allows her children to play soldier with realistic weapons. What a hypocrite. I have no problem at all with kids playing soldier. I’m a former US army soldier myself. I also have a four year old step daughter but I chose not to exploit my child to make a statement.

Melea unfortunately I think your POV is probably the minority, most people don’t give a second thought to boys playing with toy guns, missles, etc. I truly think the reaction to this photo is a combination of different things one being that vivi is a girl. I think the fact that her mom happens to be Rosie is another. If this was a photo in some random blog and you replaced the picture of a girl with that of a boy there would be little outrage. Just my POV.

It is not the picture that distrubs me….I do not have a problem with children playing realistic roles. And for many of our children a soldier is a realistic role if thier mommy, daddy, uncle, aunt, big brother or sister is a soldier.

However, what I do have a problem with is the fact that Rosie is the first to comment and jump down other’s throughts if they promote the war, guns, NRA, etc. Yet she can turn around and post her child with ammo. If it was a picture of Elizabeth Hasselbacks daughter with ammo around her neck I am sure Rosie would have something negative to say!

Just My Opion

Well if you really look at the pic. Rosie makes her daughter look like she is fighting Jihad in the west bank, or she is ready to go blow herself up. I a child came to my house dressed up like that on halloween I would be disturbed.

I understand her attempted message but irregardless of my views on her, the war, etc. I just don’t understand how she can say ‘the kids dress up all the time and play war’. If you’re against war why would you buy them costumes to play at war?

Guns and weapons make me extremely uncomfortable. Even toy ones and therefore my 4 year old doesn’t have any. He loves dressing up but there are never weapons or ammo involved.

That picture is worth a thousand of ROSIE’S posts, sarah. As in, Rosie could write a thousand posts about war in general and children devastated by war and children acting out “war” (a game to them) and how society treats war… but all of them can be summed up with this one picture of Vivi. If you bothered to even think about artistic value of the picture, you too, would have come up with many different interpretations and therefore, reasons why it is poignant.

Some of you really should see Raising Cain – specifically the part discussing kids playing/thinking about “war”.

To those who say that a photo of a little girl playing with her siblings was taken out of context, why did Rosie title the photo “A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Posts” when she published it on her blog? Clearly, she did expect a reaction.

Naughty Cal, I agree with many of your points about children and violent play. It’s very normal for kids to act out these kind of scenarios, no matter what they are being raised to believe about weapons and violence. I know many kids who aren’t allowed toy guns and fashion their out of sticks, pieces of other toys, or even their lunchtime sandwiches. However, while kids will be kids, it does seem hypocritical for a virulently anti-gun, anti-violence parent to supply her kids with realistic models of weapons and miniature military fatigues.

I think the photo makes an interesting statement, but question whether Rosie’s children just happen to have these kinds of toys. I would have more respect for her if she (a)explained why, with her stance on violence, she lets her children play with such items, or (b) admits that it was staged.