To not invite my DDs friends.

[Julz1622]

I have booked a socially distanced visit from Santa and Anna and Elsa on Christmas Eve for my daughter (8) and the baby (10 months) I live in a block of flats, and I was telling one of the mum's of one of daughter's friends about it. She said oh let me know what time they are coming and I'll send 'name' across. She has also told a few of the other mums on the block. Now I know some people will think I am being selfish, but I've paid £50 for them to come visit my daughter, I don't want all the kids congregating and ruining it for my daughters.

Know no help now but in future keep schtum and tell them afterwards!

Think it’s very cheeky to piggy back on someone else’s paid for experience cringing for her where are her manners?

@Julz1622

What they do is come to the door the stand in the close and speak to your child about Christmas and they leave sweety bags for them. If we lived in a house they would just do the same just stand on the doorstep

Given that they're only charging £50, I really doubt that they want to field hordes of children, and they certainly won't have sweet bags for everyone who might turn up. Tell the other parents that your arrangement with them prohibits visits from other children.

Your daughter is eight for goodness sakes, not three - how embarrassing will this entire shindig be for her. I'd have disappeared for the day if my parents had organised something so insulting to my intelligence.

I'm always shocked when people suggest that a child of any age is "too old for Santa". When someone goes so far as to suggest that belief in Santa past a certain age is somehow evidence of inferior intelligence, the word "bitch" comes to mind.

Let children be children! The ability to hold onto childhood magic is a gift, not a sign of inferiority. Don't shame children (or their parents) because they believe in Santa for longer than you did or your child did.

A Scottish close is the inside building where the flats are nothing like brookside culdesac close

All this talk about not believing in Santa has me baffled anyway, I still believe
Hope the non believer shamer wakes up with a piece of stinky coal in their stocking.

@Quaagars

All this talk about not believing in Santa has me baffled anyway, I still believe Hope the non believer shamer wakes up with a piece of stinky coal in their stocking.

My mum told me naughty people don't believe in santa because he never visits them

Her brother had booked Spiderman and Santa visit for her nephew

Did she expect her DCs to muscle in on that too? And what about any other treats you organise for yours - will they always expect them to be group events?

Sorry, but crying "it's for the children!!" doesn't make them any less cheeky

Fucks sake!

If you bought your child a bike for Christmas, will you expect them to share it with every child in the street who didn’t get a bike for Christmas?

Of course not.

This is no different.

You paid for your kids to have the experience, OP. Not for it to be diluted by loads of other kids turning up uninvited. Just tell the other parents that due to lockdown, it can only be for your two kids but if they want the company details so they can do it for their own children then you will give them the phone number/email address.

I'd have disappeared for the day if my parents had organised something so insulting to my intelligence.

I presume you must be a member of the Cabinet as it’s hard to imagine them ever being children either.

Anyway, everyone round to @flaviaritt’s for an all expenses paid party!

At the cinema or on video. They are not real people!

SPOILER ALERT!

Why wouldn't a non-Scot know what a 'close' is? "Brookside", a charming soap for all the family, charting the lives and loves of the residents of Brookside, er, Close, ran for about twenty interminable years and I'm pretty sure it was set in Liverpool.

That's really not what it means in Scotland, as others have explained.

Do you expect to be able to take siblings to parties they aren't invited to as well because it would be stingy and mean to only have one child attend?

Not at all.

I would be rightly pissed off if other children muscled in on my Christmas treat for my DC. We used to (pre-Covid) take the DC on the Santa Special steam train on the local heritage railway, where Father Christmas gives all the children a present and their parents get a miniature of spirits/soft drink and a mince pie. It's priced per child and per adult. If any of my friends had asked me to take their children along too, I would have stressed that it is pre-booked and not a free for all for everyone.

I would be rightly pissed off if other children muscled in on my Christmas treat for my DC

Those muscular five year olds, excited about Father Christmas turning up in a public place. Little shits.

For me it isn't really an argument to either be 'a scrooge' and not include other or be 'nice' and include them, it's not fair to the performers and they would charge more for more children. You can't call them and say oh can you come and see my two kids and then they turn up and there's 30 kids. They need to know numbers for the timings and amount of gifts needed.

@MrsFezziwig

I'd have disappeared for the day if my parents had organised something so insulting to my intelligence.

I presume you must be a member of the Cabinet as it’s hard to imagine them ever being children either.

Anyway, everyone round to @flaviaritt’s for an all expenses paid party!

😂👏🏻

@coconuttyhead

I don’t see how you’re being unreasonable at all! We’re in weird times at the moment where general social distancing will still be in place. You have arranged a special treat for your daughters and want the experience to be as nice as possible for them considering the circumstances. I don’t see how it would be possible for children to congregate or for parents to let their kids come over at the moment - if they did, I’m can’t imagine the performers accepting this, the company would have their own covid policies and procedures.

^ this

@flaviaritt

I would be rightly pissed off if other children muscled in on my Christmas treat for my DC

Those muscular five year olds, excited about Father Christmas turning up in a public place. Little shits.

Bless your heart

If someone muscles in on something, they force their way into a situation where they have no right to be and where they are not welcome. Nothing to do with being muscular.

If someone muscles in on something, they force their way into a situation where they have no right to be and where they are not welcome. Nothing to do with being muscular.

Oh my god.

Just to put the side discussion to bed. This is what a close looks like.

This is a truly bizarre thread. Firstly, you can get a lot of things for £50. This seems like an appalling waste of money. Secondly, your friend is a cheeky fucker for assuming she can geg in, BUT why on earth organise something in a communal area of a block of flats if you don't want your neighbours to see? I live in a block of flats as well, and presumably Father Christmas turning up with Anna and Elsa in tow will cause quite a stir - how on earth are you planning on stopping your neighbours from seeing this? You can't police a communal area of a block of flats (I would 100% stick my head out of the door if Father Christmas rocked up on Christmas eve to my neighbours). You can't police what your neighbours see and what their kids do from there.

It's quite funny, anyway. Thanks for the laugh. I really hope some one organises this in my block of flat, and I get to dash out and get a cheeky Father Christmas pic for instagram that I don't have to pay £50 for!

@MissEliza

Just to put the side discussion to bed. This is what a close looks like.

Gonna be a bit crowded with the OP, her two kids, Father Christmas, Anna AND Elsa, innit.

Not at all.
Then why on earth would you argue the OP is mean for not opening her children's treat to the street?

If you accept you wouldn't expect to take siblings to a party they aren't invited to, and wouldn't consider the hosts mean for only wanting the party for those who are invited, then why are you so insistent that the OP is awful for wanting only the invited children (in this case just her DC) to be present for the treat?

I want to book this for my neices and nephews now.