Who Wants a Revolution?

Not I. I'm the type of person that wants her sons and daughters alive. The kind of person that likes the security of peace on her lap. But I'm also the type of person who has deep convictions. The type of person who wouldn't want someone intruding into our home and running it for us. That's why when we began our American Revolution study and one of my boys became a pretend Patriot and the other a Loyalist, I found myself thinking that our country was founded by people with a lot more guts than I have. We naturally look at those Loyalist as the bad guys because they didn't want to break ties with King Charles III.
The 7 yr. old didn't want to be the Loyalist.
(He was having trouble figuring out the difference. My mind was taking it all in.)

Are they the bad guys? (Those rotten, money-making, tea drinking, wig wearing- oh,wait. The motherland. Don't forget the motherland who was established and settled.)
Well, no. They just don't want trouble. Some didn't think it was good to separate from someone like Britain.

Are the Patriots the bad guys? (Could we say that Ben Franklin, Paul Revere, George Washington were bad guys?)
Well, no. They don't want to pay taxes to someone who won't even let them take part in their so called mother-land government.

I want to be a Patriot.
Okay. You'll be a Patriot. 9 yr. old will be a Loyalist. I'll be Britain, the one who holds power over you and your brother. And Daddy will be America's 13 colonies who haven't organized and have no government yet to unite you. 9yr. old will be faithful to me, and you'll be faithful to Daddy.

The question is who would I be in 1776? Who would I hold allegiance to?