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I don't care if my son calls himself Cock-a Doodle -Doo...a name seems so irrelevant now...My other son just reacted in our behalf, and now he's been "uninvited"!!...




There you go, Hannelore. That's the turning point, my friend. You can now speak to the younger son about the "cock-a-doodle-doo" business. If he realises you will take the older son's decision on that basis, it might ease the situation for him. At the end of the day, they would still be brothers and still your sons. As Shakespeare wrote: "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

All will be well.