DS says he's only 1% British

[FatCatThinCat]

We're a mixed citizenship family. I have Swedish, British and Irish citizenship, as does DS, and DH has Swedish and British. We live in Sweden but our home language is English, although we all speak Swedish when out and about.

Yesterday, 7 year old autistic DS declared with absolute certainty that he was 99% Swedish and only 1% British (totally forgot about his Irish citizenship). I tried to explain that he was equally all three but he was having none of it. This morning again he's insisting he's Swedish and said he doesn't want to go to his native English class today. So I thought I'd better talk to his teacher about it at drop off.

So she tells me that yesterday in class they were talking about Easter and different traditions from around the world. Here kids get a cardboard egg full of easter sweets, marshmallow rabbits, jellybean eggs etc. The someone said that British kids get chocolate eggs, not sweetie eggs. DS apparantly became quite alarmed at this and this is why he's now almost entirely Swedish.

So in a 7 year old's head citizenship is based upon where you get sweets.

Is mine the only one who puts 2 and 2 together and gets a bag of pick and mix?

@GreenMeeple Hear, hear. Have you tried the Old Timers brand of licorice? Unfortunately I cannot eat it anymore, I used to eat it all the time, had little tubs (like the tub of film rolls, remember those?) with laurierdrop in my handbag. But moving to the UK nearly 20 years ago weaned me off licorice and now (as I cannot only eat 2 pieces and then leave the rest or some other time) my kidneys are playing up when I eat it. Haven't had any for nearly 10 years I think.

I love Bilar sweets. So I must be 1% Swedish!
My DD isn't keen on chocolate, so she has sweets. I hide them in the garden like the Easter bunny dropped them off and she still loves it at 11!

Mmm brunost. The Skandi kitchen website sells it. Delicious.

SkiQueen is the best brown cheese. Thin slivers on hot brown bread toast are amazing.