Comments on: Liz’s rant: The shelf elf

By: Get your party on: 12/13-12/19 | Coffee Break with Liz and Kate

Get your party on: 12/13-12/19 | Coffee Break with Liz and Kate — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:25:05 +0000

[...] led to believe that by re-gifting, you’ll save the planet. Save those little excuses for the shelf elf. And until next week, get your party [...]

By: Kate

Kate — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:57:05 +0000

So Liz, I was talking to my daughter about the Elf on the Shelf and she said that at her boyfriends house they have an Elf on the Shelf (not THE Elf on the shelf, but a reasonable facsimile) and when their two little nieces some over, they know there is an elf watching. Whenever they start to get out of line, all they have to do is mention the elf and the 3 year old just freezes in her spot, doesn’t move, doesn’t talk, just stares timidly around the room till she spots the elf. She’s kind of afraid of it. Not sure how I feel about the whole Elf on the shelf. I suppose it’s not really any different than me telling the kids that the elves are watching, a phrase that gets used many times in the month of Dec. (well, not any more…see Kate’s Escapades – I Believe in Santa) Someone just found a way to make money out of it. Truthfully, if I had young kids, I might use a shelf elf, but still not sure.

By: Kelly Ann T.

Kelly Ann T. — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:37:05 +0000

We hide the Elf on the Shelf every morning before the kids get up and they have to find him. The kids love this game. Anything that helps keep the kids in line works for me.