Win the crowd. Win your freedom. Kids are odd little creatures.
They like silly things like SpongeBob SquarePants. And Masha and the Bear, that Russian cartoon on Netflix. But then they also like kind of gross stuff.
And we don't just mean slugs, frogs, and mud pies. No, we mean the violent kind of gross stuff. Your kid seems to have a pretty high tolerance for anything gory.
Heck, you remember being his age, and not getting squeamish during the original My Bloody Valentine, and Clash of the Titans. Now, he likes to watch stuff like that. He likes to pretend he is a gladiator fighting in the arena.
Or one of King Leonidas' brave Spartans. You wish he were into something a little safer than sword fighting. Like LEGOs.
But you can't stop him from being interested in the Gladiators. In fact, letting him dress up in this Kid's Gladiator Costume might be just the thing to get it out of his system. Letting him fight his friends might help him move onto other interests.
Either that, or he will become the best sword fighter on the block. Challenging all the kids to gladiatorial combat. Your back yard might become a miniature arena.
Don't forget to grab a Gladiator Sword and Shield when you order this costume. Every Gladiator worth his salt should have a good sword to win the crowd with. Then maybe he will go back to watching SpongeBob.