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Remembrance Day Parade or Guy Fawkes Celebration, what would you choose?
Family & Parenting / 4:56 AM - Thursday November 05, 2009

Remembrance Day Parade or Guy Fawkes Celebration, what would you choose?

Morning all, I think I already know my answer but just looking for your input.

My son is in the Army Cadets and they are preparing for the Remembrance Day Parade through Glasgow City Centre on Sunday. Tonight will be his last time for drill practice, however, traditionally we go to a fireworks display/fair ground tonight to celebrate Guy Fawkes. He is really insistent that he wants to go to the fair, but I really feel he should stick to his commitment to the Cadets..

He will do as I say so no worries there, but he is 13 years old still a child, what do you think?

- Asked by glasgowbelle, A Thinker, Female, 46-55, Glasgow, Retired

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Responsibility at his age is important (13 if I remember correctly).

He's going through that whole boy-teenager-man phase of 10 years where he has to commit to things and then stick by them.

There's always time to play but he has made a commitment and he should honour that. It'll stick in his mind that responsibility is important.

- Response by mantis, A Creative, Male, 18-21, London, Student

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Your son wants to go to this celebration and you want him to be responsible and stick with the cadets. Responsibility before play. After the parade he can go to the festival, if you want him too. That is how I would handle the situation. He has to know that he can't just skip out on his responsibility to the cadets, so he has to go to the parade. On the other hand, he is a child and he should have SOME time to BE a child. Letting him go to the festival would be a good reward for sticking to his responsibility to the scouts.

If you can work in the festival, please do so. I'm not telling you how to raise your child but it sounds like a good, logical thing to do.

And happy Guy Fawkes/Remembrance Day glasgowbelle. :)

- Response by desota18, A Creative, Male, 18-21, Student

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I think he is still a child let him be a child, let him go to the firework display. It's nice he wants to keep up wth a family tradition, most kids when they get to that age just want to rebel and not spend time with the family.

- Response by psychoticbabe1, A Thinker, Female, 22-25, Who Cares?

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Yes he must stick to his commitment to the Cadets...it is how we show them responsibility. It is normal that he wants to go to the fair...he is a kid....sorry for him!

- Response by rosybarreto, A Married Girl, Female, 56-65, Teaching

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Guy Fawkes, He was the best man ever to enter Westminster

- Response by duggers, A Guy Critical, Male, 66 or older

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He needs to go to the drill. This is a prior committment and he needs to learn to keep his commitments as first priority.

The fair will come again, this opportunity for him in his Cadet group may not.

He has obligted himself to the drill, let him follow through... a good lesson with life.

BEst Regards.

- Response by mert40, An Intellectual Guy, Male, 66 or older, Retired

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I don't know the cadets, but I'll bet that they stand for honor, among other things. I think he has to honor his commitment to the Cadets. If they're expected to drill this evening, that's where he should be. It might be kind of a bummer for him, but you can place this in the context of learning that sometimes the needs of the group have to take precedence over individual wants.

But if the drilling is optional, maybe he can go see the fireworks.

- Response by mikehug, An Intellectual Guy, Male, 36-45, Cleveland

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