Have you heard of this? It’s a new kids behaviour strategy.
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Obviously it isn’t enough to scare kids that Santa ‘sees you when you’re sleeping, he knows when you’re awake.’ So in order to bring the pressure onto kids enter ‘elf on the shelf’.
It’s a little elf toy to sit somewhere (on the shelf, presumably) and watch all that your kids do. And he’ll report back to Santa.
We don’t play the Santa game in our house.
And we don’t have creepy elf toys either.
I’ll tell you why – Christmas for us is about a gift that none of us deserve.
That’s what we tell our kids too – we don’t give them presents cos they’ve been good. They’re kids, for starters. You and I haven’t been ‘good enough for Santa’, so why do we think they will be?
No, we give them gifts because we love them whether they do good or bad – because the ‘for goodness’ sake’ is wrong in the Santa song – God’s gives us Jesus and a new start for HIS goodness’ sake – not because of ours.
And thank goodness (or really, thank God) for that!
St Paul’s Anglican Church meets on Sundays at 9am with kids church. All welcome.