It's most likely just done on habit than conscious memorial. If my child was bothered, I'd offer them an alternative to wear.
kids not much older than your 10 year old died for their country
...is this using children being forced into war as a reason why children should wear a poppy to honour dead children?
Remembrance Day is important and children should be taught about it and encouraged to wear a poppy.
My children have felt poppies with the words Never Again on them.
My children were taught about their great grandfather who fought in WW1, who was part of veteran protestors who had poppies that said Never Again while fighting the government for support, and was a conscientious objector in WW2, sitting at the tops of building in London to watch for German planes and fighters, and the many other veterans and conscientious objectors in the family. They were also taught about how poppies came in after World War 1 - which had nothing to do with our freedoms - and about our family members and family friends who were forced into war (I was raised around Korean and Vietnam war conscripts).
Some years back, the British Royal Legion had a fundraising campaign with children wearing 'future soldiers' shirts, Do you understand why this might be far more likely to disturb the ghosts of the men, women, and animals who died than someone not wearing a flower?
There are many other ways to honour and remember the dead than a flower, like remember who they really were beyond the war and what the war did to them.
Imagine how different life would be today if we had lost WW2
Suggesting there is two sides impliesxtk kids that it might have been ok to appease hitler!
It seems very disrespect to place whether poppies should be worn on a single war that isn't even the one that is why poppies are used in remembrance in some countries. Poppies came in after World War 1, not World War 2 - a war that quite a few of the World War 1 veterans the poppies were originally to commemorate refused to fight.