First it’s the Santa question now it’s this darn Elf that comes to life!

[M.D. Holloway]

Last week our Son comes home with some myth/hype/product conception of an elf that will come to your home if you put out graham crackers and milk. Three nights in a row as well as a hand written note asking for the elf to visit - the elf will eat the crackers each night and on the third night will appear in the form of a ceramic elf figurine. After he appears, he will watch you through out the holiday season to make sure you are good and will report back to Santa. He got this idea from some kids Mom who helps out the class.

So here is the kicker, come to find out this whole thing was started by some other Mom who has had a bunch of these elf’s made, written a book about it and has basically marketed yet another Christmas season concept for our children to gravitate towards! I’m just pissed I didn’t think of it first.

Never being the ones to be left out of the ‘popular thing’ but also not willing to drop $$$ for a silly elf made of fragile ceramic and a book that is marginal my Wife picked up a little stuffed elf at Garden Ridge. Of course after three days of eating Graham crackers and milk the elf arrived – one for each of them so no problems would arise.

Now I have to hear that the elf he has isn’t the “real” one and that it’s a fake. Enter the discussion about beliefs again. I guess a few of the kids told him that his elf is not the true elf. So we discussed the concepts again. It’s OK for others to believe what they believe as long as
1) it doesn’t hurt you
2) it doesn’t take anything from you
They believe what they believe, you believe what you believe and as long as you don’t hurt them or steal from them with your beliefs either than all is good. I told him that if any of the kids don’t understand that maybe they should stop and think about how they would feel if someone said stuff like that to them. You know the Golden rule and all that. And if all else fails your bigger than they are so just get in their face and tell them that their Christmas would suck with a black eye! (No, I didn’t tell him that – but the little man inside me wanted to!).

But on a much broader, more serious note, what a great example of exactly what Christmas isn’t about. Not the commercialism but rather ridiculing others for not believing in something. Didn’t someone get hung on a cross for that?

[frogger]

Tell your kid that Santa is a myth created to sell toys and spoil kids rotten. Tell him that the elves are bogus, too. Tell him that you are Santa and he will still get his loot if he's been good. Let him know that you know all too well if he's been naughty or nice. Muhhahaha!

[RickM]

www.elfyourself.com

[flashgordon13]

It sounds like your elfs are the supervisor elfs and that's why they don't look the same as the lowly elfs at the other kids house. Your kids must have been extra good to get the good elfs. Seriously, I am glad my kids are grown and I don't have to do this santa stuff anymore. I think it's fine for kids to believe there is a santa. Too many times we try to rob our kids of their youth. I can still feel the excitement of Christams when I think about all the great memories of being a kid and looking foward to santa coming. I knew that Christamas was to celebrate the birth of Jesus, but santa can still have a part in a kids Christmas. Let the kids enjoy being kids as long as you can as they grow up too fast even without us pushing them.

[alf]

Originally Posted by LubeMaster77

Now I have to hear that the elf he has isn’t the “real” one and that it’s a fake. Enter the discussion about beliefs again. I guess a few of the kids told him that his elf is not the true elf.

This discussion has been going on as long as Monotheism has been around, if not longer, in a larger context of my God is more uber than your God

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Ritalin

[legion]

Originally Posted by alf

This discussion has been going on as long as Monotheism has been around, if not longer, in a larger context of my God is more uber than your God

I don't think boys in their single-digits are quite so philosophical.

It's more about "My dad can beat up your dad..."

[Neilk]

As nice as Lube's stories are, I just can't help thinking I need to replace the words "Elf" or "Santa" with "Jesus" in all his stories...

[Shaun @ Tru6]

They are nice stories!

[M.D. Holloway]

I'm thinking theres a screenplay in one of them

[Shaun @ Tru6]

I thought you were going more for a book of vignettes with all of them.

[cstreit]

Tell him the truth? That some Mom made up the story to sell her crappy elf figurines? Then find out who the money grubing little BI is and tell her that manipulating kids beliefs to make crack and beer money is pretty G'damn low...

if it were my kid I'd be sorely tempted to have him selling "special elf cookies" back to the kids, to bribe the elves, that way they wouldn't have to be good.

[71T Targa]

Originally Posted by LubeMaster77

I'm thinking theres a screenplay in one of them

I can see this one being a block buster. Along the lines of 'Chucky'