Is this odd? I don't think so....

[DemureNewName]

.... my DD (3) has a book bag. It is, like 90% of the bookbags I've seen, decorated to make it personal to her.

I have added a poppy to it, for November.

A friend has told me that this is 'odd'.. It's not, is it? I've explained to DD, in age appropriate language, why we've added the poppy and what it represents.

Is it really bad to expect my DD to wear her poppy with pride? SUrely the poppy is as relevant today - for her generation - than it was for ours?

Feeling a bit 'eek' about having stuck it (right in the centre!) of her book bag now!

I'm sure there's a 'My Story' about a boy soldier in WW2. These are a series of kids history books told by a child 'eyewitness'. Good for 7+ ages. Get the kids reading! Too few of them will have any relatives living who remember WW2.

Trendy Notting Hill - one poppy sighted in the rush hour (apart from mine). Again, a chap coming out of a hotel.

Not odd at all. The DC's have worn them either pinned to their coats or the buggy since birth. The school sells them and this year I have seen quite a few of DS's high school students wearing the enamel badges on their ties already.

My grandmas husband is 87 and is slowly losing his mind :( he was in WW2, and as they landed on the beach at Dunkirk (I think) and his best friend was shot dead beside him, a bullet through the neck which whistled past GHs ear. He still has nightmares now, all those years on.

Not seen a single one today either! I have a walk to work through a very busy part of town. Not even the police or traffic wardens!