Mixing with deprived children?

[Thisneedsachange]

I’ve changed my name for this but long term mumsnetter. I had a very sheltered but working class background, but mum was a social worker so I was sent to holiday clubs where she was working - with children from very deprived backgrounds and on child protection plans. My life experiences changed when I got a scholarship to private school and it’s been a middle class bubble since then - but I think those early exposures to how tough life can be for some gas the making of me. It’s made me more compassionate, more politically aware and I’ve volunteered since a teen working with deprived children.
My own 5 year old daughter has a very sheltered existence and so I’m thinking of sending her to a free church holiday club at the church I grew up with for a week this summer. It’s free because it’s a very deprived ward. We do have one friend who will go so she will be fine. As a child some things I was exposed to in these schemes aimed at deprived children really shocked me - bad language, bad behaviour, unhappy families..but by my teens I understood what was going on.
Am I unwise to consider this?
I contribute to the funds (although we don’t worship there as not Christian) so not concerned about taking financial advantage, just wondering if I should wait until my daughter is older to have these experiences?

[ELOU1111]

Lollllll....make sure you change her name to something 'common' so she will fit in! And drop her off in your pajamas or you might give the game away!

[NiceGerbil]

Not RTFT

OP your thought process is very strange.

That aside. Neither of you attend this church? She won't know anyone the kids or the adults. She's 5. So no. For that reason.

[NiceGerbil]

Just reread.

Well if it's not taking a place and your friend is going and it's a few afternoons my comment doesn't apply.

I think it's good to mix with all sorts of people but bit weird to target s group like this.

You meet all sorts of people all over the place. If you are friendly in general etc. No need to hunt people down, and with assumptions as well...

Children of all backgrounds can be sweary, badly behaved and have unhappy families.

[NiceGerbil]

At 5 she is learning about different lives and that sometimes people need help by going volunteering with you.

Don't try to shoehorn your own values etc too much she may end up resenting it. Eg you made me go with you to X all the time and it was boring and I would rather have been playing with a friend.

She's only 5.