It seems ridiculous, but matinees in many kindergartens really decided to be held without the main winter wizard. Often the parents themselves are to blame.
The beginning of history was laid by a resident of St. Petersburg On his page on the social network, he writes:
“In kindergartens, parental committees collect money for the needs of the group (everything is voluntary, you don’t have to rent it). At the expense of this money, they were going to invite Santa Claus to New Year’s parties. One mother was indignant (I do not know why) and complained to the RONO “about the extortion.” From there, the decree: to cancel Santa Claus. “
Of course, no official is able to ban grandfather in a global sense. But in a separate kindergarten – it’s easy.
Like, you can get by with a local Snow Maiden – dress up some kind of nanny, and go ahead. The nannies are not happy, they are unlikely to pay for it, and if you play badly, the children will get upset, and the parents, accordingly, will complain again. Wherever you throw – everywhere a wedge.
“Why not dress up someone’s dad as Santa Claus?” – a naive person will ask. They always did this, they asked to be a wizard for the children of someone they knew, and nothing, everyone is alive.
But now there are pitfalls everywhere. You can’t invite anyone to your children. Even if this anyhow is a familiar dad, who takes his daughter or son home every evening, and has not been noticed in anything bad. It was not now, but before ?! This is probably the reasoning of the official who came up with a new rule: if you want to work as Santa Claus – be kind, provide a certificate that you have not been tried, had not been in prison, had not been involved, and so on. Until “you have no relatives abroad” have not yet reached their hands, but what the hell is not joking, maybe then someone will dawn.
And, here’s another: even a one-time Santa Claus needs to bring a medical book, suddenly he is sick with something, and then there are children. The nannies, potential Snow Maidens, at least already have medical books.
Another option from the officials: the animators themselves pay for the lease of the playground, that is, the assembly hall of the kindergarten, and the parents somehow compensate them for this. Well what can I say …
“In our kindergarten, they ask to submit a collective statement that we want, voluntarily, agree to Santa Claus. Delirium, ”the dad continues. That is, an option to bypass grandfather’s ban is to sign a collective letter to the administration, they say, we donate money to Grandfather voluntarily, in our right mind and firm memory, not at gunpoint and not on kickbacks.
“The fight against corruption, that’s already there,” says the father.
And subscribers are ironic: “Santa Claus is suspected of espionage?” Or is it even more difficult? Dedsad, as a budgetary organization, should have held a tender for his grandfather, but not?
But the saddest thing is that this case is far from the only one. A wave of “anti-magic” bans swept across the country. From one city to another, similar cases are reported. They were not allowed to invite Santa Claus to a children’s matinee in Novosibirsk, Kirovsk, Kazan, Samara … In some cases, educators refer to the prescriptions of psychologists – they say, it is harmful for children to believe in fairy tales. Well, if it is harmful, then children will do just fine without it.
It is very important for children to believe in magic. Otherwise, when they grow up, they will not remember the childhood delight and joy of the holiday. And then we wonder why we have so few smiling people on the streets.
Through a fairy tale, fairy-tale heroes, through a metaphor, children comprehend life. And if you take away their magic, it’s like taking away their childhood. Let’s extend the childhood of the children, they will have time to face the gray everyday life. Psychologists believe that it is not worth dressing up someone’s dad as Santa Claus: there is a risk that the child or even his friends will find out, and for him the magic will end ahead of time. The same is with the Snow Maiden: a nanny from a neighboring group can also be identified. Of course, it’s still better to invite professional artists.