For wanting to write a letter of complaint to the Rotary Club about their Santa

[islandofsodor]

A couple of weeks ago the rotary Santa cam round. I've always missed them before as we have been out but dd has seen a different branch Rotary Santa each year at my parents house.

This Santa was rubbish. He didn't want to speak to my dd, just shoved a lolly at her and said I'll bring you everything you've asked for.

Now I could understand if there was a queue of children but there was just us and 2 yeas old neighbour and I know they may have been running behind schedule but since when have they had the right to tell a 6 year old that she will get everything she has asked for for Christmas.

The day before I had found out that sil had not been able to get her the swimming doll she despartely wanted for Christmas so I ended up paying double the price on ebay. Plus she had a £40 Chou Chou and a DS Lite on her list. I had told her when she wrote the list that because she had a VTECH games console last year she couldn;t have a DS. If she had a £120 DS lite then we could not have bought her any of the other stuff on her list like Barbie and High School Musical.

Howevever since then dd has constantly been saying when we have tried to explain that she can't have everything "but Santa said he was bringing me everything. "

I feel so bad, especially as she has been a little angel today 3 year old ds is not well and she has been so good helping me to look after him.

Sureley there will be people on the Santa run who can't afford much for Christmas (I think my dd has done pretty well all in all)a bit of vagueness and tact was called for something like I'll see what I can do and bring you something nice.

I SO hope dd will not be disapointed.

bad santa!! I would be cross too!

Another parent tripped up by their own santa lie.

its bad.

Wrong of the Santa to say that and YANBU to complain. It must be pretty uncommon for parents to be able/willing to buy everything a child wants, and anyone with an ounce of common sense would know that.

I actually saw a similar thing from one of those 'letter from Santa' services; I received a catalogue (may have been Blooming Marvellous) advertising a letter from Santa and they showed a pic of the letter, which said "I'll be bringing you everything on your list."

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You don't do Christmas Beeper do you? How odd you are! And miserable as well.

I think he was badly advised, but I wouldn't complain!

We don't do FC btw (in that the kids know the presents are from us, and if pushed would admit this) - but we DO do Christmas, and ds1 dresses up as FC to deliver presents. We are not odd, or miserable, but it does save problems like this one happening!!!

Yes, he was wrong but I wouldn't complain ... they may just decide not to bother next year, and that way everyone suffers and the Rotary don't raise any money. They are all volunteers, it's all done with the kindest of intentions, and it would be wrong to scupper that.

I wonder whether it might just be worth mentioning it to the wife of a rotary member on a local forum I use.

I don;t want to stop it. just make sure they perhaps use a bit more caution next year so it doesn;t happen again.

harsh to complain most likely a well meaning volunteer. No Biggie not really the worst thing to happen eh

actually I disagree with WWB (even tho I love her so)

by dressing up as Santa you are responsible for the dreams of little children and you have to be careful not to ruin the magic of Christmas

I have bored for England on here before about the charity Santa who was ridiculously young, pulled his beard down to drink his tea, and swopped hardly a word with an excited dd1

and yes I did complain

dress up as a reindeer with a big furry head if you are not prepared to interact properly with kids

But even the best intentioned of adults don't always get it right. I know I don't.

It depends on how firm islandofsodor's dd's belief is, I guess; my own 6 year old isn't taken in by the fake ones at all, and with that in mind it wouldn't have been a biggie for us - we would probably have said something along the lines of "Well, maybe he misunderstood what the real Santa told him" - but I suppose it's harder if the child really believes it's Santa she's spoken to. 6 is old enough to know that you can't always have everything you ask for, I think - but again, that depends on whether the child believes the presents come from Santa or from the people they really come from.

Oh what a tangled web we weave ...

We tell her that we have to buy them and that Santa delivers them BUT she just has this thing now that because Santa has said it, it must be true.

I was actually given £60 of Argos vouchers as a Xmas bonus and if Argos had one in stock I would have used them as part payment . Her list was not excessive in some eyes, just half a dozen items a DS Lite, HSM DVD, Chou Chou and Baby Born Swimming Doll and Barbie stuff but we couldn't afford it all and had explained that she wouldn;t be getting a DS Lite.

She is only just 6 and totally beleives in Santa.

Oh, you can't seriously complain about a volunteer pretending to be santa.