So my girlfriend posted to facebook today about their Elf on the Shelf. Apparently it's inspired by a children's book and this elf sits on your shelf, watches your kids and reports back to Santa as to whether they have been bad or good.
I'm sorry but creepy much?
I think.
Not that I don't see the inherent cuteness.
I used to wish the "good fairies" and "bad fairies" that lived on our shoulders - as told to us by MaryJean Rafferty, babysitter - were real, and I think children should believe. In something.
But threats?
Covert operations?
Spies amongst us?
Rewards for good behavior?
Bribery?
meh. I think not.
And as far as a fairy overseeing our shenanigans? I have enough difficulty with Jonathan Edwards style "crossing over" - thinking my poor dead grandmother is watching me shrill like a fishwife. I don't need some snotty little fairy carrying tales.
Nobody likes a gossip.
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