![]() ![]() This is what I want to reinforce in my children, not behaving merely to get more gifts because they think some elf/Santa is watching them. ![]() To me, this is the most enjoyable aspect about Christmas. I love Christmas, seeing family, visiting, having Christmas dinners, touching base with relatives I don't get to see often, and just having a good time and relaxing around this time. I want my kids to behave ALL year, not just Dec 1 to 25 or whatever. I'm appalled that more people don't see how f-ed up the whole premise is. And telling a child that the elf is always watching them and reporting their behavior back to Santa. We teach our kids that lying is bad, and it's bad enough to lie to them about Santa Claus, to add this elf to the mix just jacks it up further. After seeing what the book is about and the 'rules' regarding the elf and how you are supposed to use it, I am creeped out even more. I decided to investigate further, since the relative did not mention there was a book to go along with it. She explained the basic gist of the elf on the shelf, and I found it creepy. I heard of this last year via a relative who was talking about how her co-worker had bought this for their household. Take, a good, long, hard look at the bastard. This book is a disservice to children for insisting that they are incapable of compassion and responsibility, and a disservice to parents for assuming that they cannot imbue their children with any sense of personal accountability.īonus: The Elf is terrible. Instead, children are presented with an insincere meritocracy as tempering their otherwise irresponsible and sociopathic tendencies. Children don't internalize the value of altruistic behaviors from this book they are left with no need to be good for the sake of being good. If children are being decent, kind, generous citizens just because a tiny humanoid is watching their every move, then they're not thinking critically about their actions and their effects on others. ![]() I cannot support the idea of extrinsic motivations for moral development. I can't think of a faster way to give your child a complex than to break this stinker out year after year.Ģ. The little darling reports on your every move to the Big Red Guy, akin to McCarthy-era witch hunts or modern-day N.S.A. ![]()
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