My Dad is King of awful presents...

[lucysmam]

But this one takes the biscuit; for dd2's 10th birthday today, he has given her the same skincare set as he gave me for Christmas

Tbh 10 is probably a good age to start skin care

He had no clue.
didnt he ask you for advice?

They were 3 for 2 in Boots

@GiveHerHellFromUs oh dear; now I know what dd1's 13th present will be next month!!

@Sparklybaublefest nope, he rarely does. She's very confused by it

@pelirocco123 erm, yeah, no.

Can you just tell her he must have put her name on by mistake because today you've 'received a bank transfer for £20' so you'll give her the cash, if you can afford it? Poor kid!

take it back op

Yeah, I think that is what I'll be doing. She's eye rolling at it but I feel bad :(

Two people got us milk choc.

I have a cows milk allergy & Dh has diabetes. It’s the thoughtlessness that hurts when your expected to be there for them.

We are re-assessing. Even dh is upset & he's not a sensitive person.

@Fluffycloudland77 that's exactly it! The lack of thought.

Dd has some new gel pens from dd1 (The big pack of smiggle ones) that she's been pestering for for quite a while & has just said she wouldn't mind a nice colouring book to go with them so I think we'll have a look for one together later on.

(I have no idea how much the skincare would be so am going to look that up too & make up the difference for her to spend when we go to town next)

Please please do not start a 10 yr old on a ‘skincare routine’. What is WRONG with some of you people!!!!

My 10 year old DD would love this!

10 is old enough to understand that some people give rubbish gifts.

your daughter either keeps it and uses the bits of it she fancies, you buy bits off her if you fancy, or she just gives it away. No big deal.

Say thanks and move on. If he pushes it say that skincare is not a good gift in your family and if in doubt ask first, or just don't buy anything.

Happyspud I'm ordering her a fancier than usual unicorn colouring book to go with her new pens; I'll use a couple of the bits of it & pass along the others to someone who'll use them :)

ZenNudist she's been polite and said thank you. It's still baffling her though that he gave her it .

OP you are not the one suggesting a 10yr old should start the shackles of a ‘skincare routine’. Thank god you’ve more sense.

She quite likes a novelty sheet mask from Home Bargains (69p unicorn one or similar) every now and again, but no, definitely no skincare routine going on. I'm happy so long as her face meets the flannel morning & night

10 is a good age to start a skin care regimen!? Wtf?

Cross post. Maybe DD13 should be asking for lip fillers, she is at that age you know 🙄

Ffs the pp was obvs joking about starting a skin care routine at 10.

But please, not No7. I hear Clinique is good for tweens.

That is crap OP.

My father got me cleaning stuff because “you like cleaning”.

I fucking don’t.

I'm going against the grain here! Maybe he thought she'd like to play around with some girly stuff? I know at that age I used to covet my mum's gorgeous-smelling face creams and make-up and I was over the moon when she started giving me little bits and bobs as presents.. maybe he just misjudged it rather than being thoughtless.

if you think that's bad, my dad got my sister some poly filler and an electric bike pump for Christmas!!!! all in the name of love, but.. really?!

Without wanting to sound arsey just deal with it any way you choose and appreciate that your dad is able to participate in your life. My dad passed away in September and I would give the world to have been able to see him this Christmas. You never know when bottom will fall out of your world.

Tbh I was using cleansing milk & toner at 8yo because soap makes my skin very red & sore. It didn’t send me on a path of promiscuity it just meant I had a normal coloured face.

Still can’t use soap on my face now.

Going against the majority but skincare at 10 isn't a bad thing. As in a nice cleanser to get them to wash their face, and to get in a routine. There's nothing inherently wrong with cleanser, moisturiser and SPF rather than chucking soap at your face, wondering why it's dry/irritated and never protecting it from the sun
I started my periods at 9 and needed skincare because I was spotty/oily and ended up with loads of blackheads

I don’t see why that’s such a bad gift for a 10 year old. Ok maybe she’s a tiny bit young for it but he obviously hasn’t know what to buy for a pre-teen girl and he’s tried bless him. It’s not like it’s anti wrinkle or very advanced skin care. It looks like a decent set to get her going on a skin care regime. My 13 year old would have appreciate this a couple of years ago.

Sometimes people can’t win. Buying a boots set is considered to have not put any thought in but what thought would he have put into it if he’d have asked you what to buy and got that, as others have suggested?