Do your kids wear poppies?

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Do your kids wear poppies?

Dd is 18y but in the past she always has done, normally a pin badge type. Me and Dh do too. I have also ordered an official Poppy Day mask this year too.

Yes, from the age of about 4 he was also selling them with his dad and uncle in stalls in supermarkets and at stadia. He was a good sales person as nobody can resist a small child with a collection tin... as a teen he joined the cadets and organised his own poppy selling troop, laying the wreath at the war memorial on behalf of his platoon, and now he is an adult he continues with wearing a poppy. He is from a military family though and was taken to the Armistice Day service and parades every year. It is one charity that we have always supported as a family.

Yes

No

Yes. I have always bought poppies for them to wear with school uniform and we normally attend our local remembrance day service.

Usually they sell them at school so DD buys one (and promptly loses it) but not sure if they are this year due to bubbles, money handling etc. Last year she also wore a purple pin badge.

I think it has to be their choice (like everything like this). And I dint like the landfill. When I donate (but it’s not always), I never pick up an item of 'show' anyway.

Yes, we all do.

No but we light candles on may 4th. Theyre Danish.

No, none of us do, but we're Irish.

No

Yes

Yes

Yes. Both my grandfathers fought in the Second World War. They were young men barely out of their teens in a foreign country wondering if they’d see home again hunched in a trench. The horrors they saw were unimaginable so wearing a poppy to remember those souls lost to give us the rights we have now is tiny.

Yes. Both my grandfathers fought in the Second World War. They were young men barely out of their teens in a foreign country wondering if they’d see home again hunched in a trench. The horrors they saw were unimaginable so wearing a poppy to remember those souls lost to give us the rights we have now is tiny.

Yes we have crochet ones made by a register seller at school and the football pin badge ones.

We have and printed off the colouring in poppy sheet for this year.

No, I give a small donation to the collector on the day but that's about it.

No, I give a small donation to the collector on the day but that's about it.

Yes. Its an annual reminder to say thank you. If we’d lost WWII, my dd wouldn’t be here.

No way. I wonder how schools enforcing poppy wearing deal with kids who come from backgrounds where the poppies have negative connotations? Thinking of Irish kids in British schools there.

I had the reverse happen to me - newly arrived British kid in the school I teach in (Ireland) brought us in poppies. Was nicely meant but they were packaged up and given back to her mum with a simple explanation as to why.

Sometimes, when they want to. We used to take them to the remembrance parade but they stopped wanting to go a few years ago and we’ve not forced it.

No but nor do we.

I’m really sorry for my ignorance, but can someone explain the Ireland/ poppy wearing issue? Thank you.

Poppies are a symbol of the Royal BRITISH legion. Ireland is a seperate country. Their Army fought in different wars. Not to mention the historic problems surrounding the British Army in NI.

Yes. She has a reflective Poppy on her school bag all year. My GF was a teenage air raid warden in the blitz, then fought in WW2 as soon as was old enough. He never met his own father, who died of war wounds (WW1) before my GF was born.

I always buy the white ones if I can.