HELP!- My 3 year old doesn't like santa!

[happywheezer]

My 3 year old doesn't like santa and I don't know why. Yesterday, we took him to see Santa but he wouldn't go in.
He has seen Santa before and I showed him pictures of when he met Santa previously, but that didn't do the trick.
He still wants his presents though.
I'm not sure if it's a stranger coming in your house at night and eating food or the good boy and girl bit but he always says no about meeting him.
Any tips for santa appreciation?
Or is Santa scary?

Santa is scary! Weird fat man in a red suit with a big bread that your parents are quite keen for you to go sit on his knee during December when the rest of the time they are drumming stranger danger into you.

I was a terrified child, all my "with Santa" photos have me either screaming or red about the eyes.

I did grow out of it though. Maybe by next year he will have come round.

Beard :o!

He would be scary with a big bread, if I was funnier I could have done a joke about bread.

My 3 year old doesn't like him either. So we have asked him to deliver the presents to Nana's house instead and then Mummy and Daddy can collect them from there for him

It's normal to be petrified of Santa.

Red. Beard. Fat. Hat. Overly-loud. Jolly. And he creeps into your house when you are asleep.

What's to like?

I think partly, it's because you can't see Santa. He's always locked away somewhere, for a fee , of course, so you can't see him before you meet him.

Loads of DCs don't like Santa "in the flesh" when you take them to see him. They still like the abstract present bringer, but don't want a real person towering over them and ho-ho-hoing, and asking them questions while crowds of people mill about. They know "something" is expected of them but don't know quite what to say/do and are wondering where the presents are... very confusing for a LO.

We can't even mention FC in our house as dd2 (5) gets very upset, she still wants presents but not from FC, last year she was petrified when i hung her stocking on her bedroom door so we now have to leave it down stairs.