bondipom

Do your kids regard themselves as Aussie, Pommie, Welsh, Scottish or Irish? What do you want your kids to be and if given the choice what national sporting team do you want them to play for?

renth

I asked my 6 year old whether he was an English boy or an Australian boy and he replied "Australian"

He knows the words to Advance Australia Fair, I don't think he'd even recognise God Save the Queen

jayr

My 6 year old considers himself English (mind he also thinks that he is a Power Ranger and Harry Potter) and my 3 year old just thinks she's a princess.

DianeOZ

My 8 yr old deffo still considers himself English and happily 1/2 Scottish and still supports England in whatever sports are on.
The 4 yr old, not so sure - probably an Aussie although he knows we came from England.

I'd want him to play for whoever was best at the time of course!! Stuff national pride when it comes to $$


Di

dracupg

I would consider our 3 year old son Australian rather than Scottish, even though we only moved out earlier this year. He is a bit young to understand the concept of nationality and has the memory of a goldfish, so doesn’t remember anything about Scotland.

He calls Nursery “Kindie�, and corrects us when we call his “undies� pants.

If he is good at sport, he can represent Australia. If he is crap, he can always represent Scotland!

BookBear

When we have kids they'll be Aussie, because they'll be born here, however their four grandparents will be Dutch-born x 2, English-born x 1, Irish-born x 1.

bondipom

My theory is that kids are most influenced at 15 to 22 when most opinions and attitudes are formed. If they are in Aussie then then they are more likely to be regards themselves as Aussie .

TrickyTree

If we do make the move over to Oz and have kids born in Oz I think they will see themselves as Aussie.

BUT........

They will only follow FOREST, but I think they would follow the Aussie national side being bought up their.

But you never know they could grow up under the influence of their dad and follow England (depends on how many posters I can get in the little tackers room).



TT

Simone

Maybe in somecases, I kave no idea, really, but in my case, my childhood counts. But maybe just because I love Oz.

For this thread I'll just be the child (cos I was still a few years ago )

I was born in The Netherlands, lived here from 0 till 5.
Moved to WA. Lived in WA from 5 till 14.
Moved back to NL. Lived here now 7 years, will be 8 when we go, so 14 - 22.

I see myself as half/half, but I'm prouder to say I'm Australian. What I mean is, here, in Holland, I'm always very happy I can say I'm half Australian, cos I have an Australian passport, and I grew up there.
But in the end, I think I'm officially Dutch, cos I was born here, and my parents are 'pure' Dutch.

My brother is a year younger than me, and isn't thinking about going back to Oz at all, he hasn't even been back for a holiday (yet, cos I MUST come and visit us next year or something!).
So, he considers himself more Dutch, I'm quite sure.

So, it's difficult, I think it's mostly influenced in your childhood, that's where you are mostly formed? So from 6? till 20?
BUT it definetly also depends on what nationality you WANT to be, what your parents are and a bit where you were born.

Oh, and with sports and stuff, I'm usually for Australia, but if Australia's not really in the running and Holland is, then it's different!

WBB

lol, my 4 year old would disagree with that she has an opinion on everything as do most 4 yr olds.

kids these days are a lot more exposed to the big wide world than we were as kids and therefore i think they mature a lot earlier.

mr mover

KIDS will be kids, their Nationality ,will be what ever the parents ram down their throats ................ MM

xpat19

Son was 10 when we moved here and now nearly 13 and definately considers himself a pom......he's starting to not sound like one now though, not that we'd dare tell him he has developed a definate Kiwi twang !!
Which sports team ? ho hum - Wish I could comment but am still not able to convincingly feign an interest in the national sport and husband props his eyes open on a saturday night so that he can watch a UK game of soccer which is shown around 12.30am !!

lynnj

My kids have lived in england since they were 2 and 4 but still think of themselves as Scottish, but i would imagine that after a wee while in australia they will think of themselves as aussies, they still have the option of playing football for scotland, perhaps bertie should consider them for the forthcoming game against holland

In my humble opinion we should all give up on the "we are" and maybe change it to "originally we were from" with all the racism being highlighted at the moment perhaps we should start seeing people as people instead of being of a particular creed or culture.

Mind you when it comes to sport that all goes out the window

Incidentally our next one will be an aussie, that could lead to interesting family sports viewing!!!

Lynn

sally1968

I was born in Oz to an Aussie mum and English dad. we moved to the Uk when i was 3 so I have lived here for the majority of my life. However, I very much see myself as an Aussie and always will. My brother( who is 2 years older than me) is very much an english man.

They will make their own minds up no matter where they are.

sally

chris hogan

My kids are proper hienz 57,mongrels.I was born N.Ireland with
S.Irish grandparents,consider myself Irish(parents English).Wife born Australia to English parents.Kids all born in England(5 of)but now hold Australian citizenships and passports,although they have never set foot on Aussie soil they now consider themselves Aussie.As for who to play for it confuses me so god knows what it'll do to them.My lad is also a very talented footballer(trials for Liverpool.Trained with Chester City a very small club with big connentions)IF big IF he was to make it to the big time I would never allow him to be pushed it will be his decision who to play for.
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