Brown Owls/Brownies Leaders help me convince my DD she won’t be in trouble for this?

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DD aged 7, has trouble with processing and memory linked to dyslexia and dyspraxia.

She absolutely loves Brownies, lives, breathes and dreams about it. She has loads of badges already for only have done 1 and a half terms (she did a half term of Rainbows and Brownies at the same time due to the issues above).

At the Christmas party last week, they were given a small gift. According to DD they were told “Not to open them until Christmas Day”. DD is with her dad Christmas Day and doesn’t want to take the gift to her dads to open there because he never lets her bring anything home so I said we could open it Christmas Eve morning before she goes to her dads.

She’s absolutely adamant she’ll get told off for this. I don’t want to bother her leader with something so trivial as I doubt, she would get into trouble for it anyway plus DD may not believe that the message/email is from Brown Owl anyway, so can Brown Owls/Leaders help me reassure DD it’ll be fine to open Christmas Eve?

Thank you in advance as well

Brownie leader here as a leader I would not mind sending your daughter a text to reassure her she won't be in trouble!

Text brown owl 🦉

Another brownie leader here, what we don’t want is to ruin the surprise for the other brownies. We tell ours that if they open it early they shouldn’t tell any other brownies what it was. So if she opens it just before she goes to her dads it will be absolutely fine.

I’d send a message to brown owl, she’s probably the only one that can reassure your daughter that this will be ok.

Hello @BrowniesBadgesGiven DD. I was a Tawny Owl with my local Brownies for many years.
You can absolutely open your gift on Christmas Eve, we just didn't want you opening it that night all all the other Brownies peeking!

Have a lovely Christmas and enjoy your gift x

Brownie leader here 🙋🏼‍♀️☺️ no, she won't get in trouble. We're not here to tell kids off, specially not for things they do at home. Girls come to brownies to have fun and learn but it's not supposed to be strict like school. Obviously if a child is doing something disrespectful, hurtful or dangerous then we have a duty of care to have a word but we are certainly not going to tell a little girl off for opening a present when it's not officially Christmas. I'm sure the leader probably just said that so that it could be a surprise or your daughter has taken something the leader said too literally. Tell her not to worry and have a lovely Christmas.

If it worries your daughter so much just don't tell her brownie leader she opened it early, because in all seriousness how will her leader know? 😆

She sounds like such a little sweety @BrowniesBadgesGiven. I can just imagine the earnest look as she tells you she can't possibly open her present before Christmas day.

Update;

Brown Owl sent us a voice message saying that DD could open hers whenever she wanted it was only because some girls had got extra things because they helped with a stall earlier in the term so they got a thank you present as well (DD got this) and some of the girls don't celebrate Christmas so she didn't want any girls going home upset.

DD opened hers yesterday, she got her little thank you badge, name tape with the event name and place on as well as year and a thank you card, the merry Christmas Badge, a bag of chocolate coins, and a Christmas Card.

All in DD went to her dads happy!