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While I am a ****er for a lot of Christmas stuff, I think the trendiness and overboard nature of all things involving Elf on the Shelf are what deters me. It's a very commercial idea and seeing them sold by the millions in stores irritates me. Plus I don't want to be "required" to partake in it daily for a month a year until my kids are too grown.
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I do like what this couple did with "Dinovember" though. Keeps the imagination alive ... no hidden agenda or things to buy.
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We got a head start. I got a Chucky doll watching the kids now. I made it more fun by telling them he also knows where they live. Poor Dears have not stepped out of line once today.
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OMG!! :
: Best post of the month hands down! ::
My bff got a "My Buddy" doll from a garage sale. She stood it outside her patio door and told her preschool aged son that he would get him if he tried to go outside without her.
I remember thinking she was a little off kilter using that method of "control" but then again, I didn't have a daycare then and hadn't had the pleasure of working with littles day in and day out so.....
In hindsight, its "slightly" amusing now... :: 
For those of you that don't know who "My Buddy" is:Attached FilesComment
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I remember My Buddy and Kid Sister!Comment
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Ugh, My Buddy.... ::
Almost as bad as THAT monkey.
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I thought about it. But never did it. I thought it was probably best to leave this up to the parents to do. Didn't want a child leaving the daycare and then questioning why there is no elf on the shelf at their house.Comment
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My babies are too little, but my oldest dd has "Mr Elferson" out the day after Thanksgiving so he can start his mischief on her 4 kids. She's gotten creative since the kids are getting older & now the baby (3.5 years) understands why his siblings giggle so much in December
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I have a family like this- it's OBNOXIOUS. Last year he did insane off the wall naughty things, and dcb said to me "My Elf is naughty and so am I!" since everyone thought the elf's antics were so cute. I ended up telling dcm the elf needed to behave better.
Eg. Elf had an accident on the counter (she dyed water yellow and made a puddle, too!) Elf threw toys all over the room. Elf swung around on the ceiling fan. Elf spilled cereal all over the kitchen table.
My MIL got us one and we call him Eddy (Christmas vacation movie is a favorite) I am not sure how other people do it, but we did it with books. I bought a series of books and every night, Eddy would bring the next book in the series and sit with us while we read it in the morning and at night before bed. The next day, the kids would wake up super excited to read the next book, so I thought it was fun and cute, but we didn't do the stuff where he is in a new spot each day or doing something different. He had a spot on our "mantle" and the new book would be beside him.
I agree, some people go overboard, but it can be a fun thing to do if your kids are in that golden age where they get excited about it. I don't use Eddy as a way to bribe them to be good, though. They need to be good because it is the right thing to do, not because a stuffed doll tells them to. very sensible use of it- I also LOVE the book idea. Clever way to get kids excited about reading. 
:: My own kids would LOVE this! I might freak dh out and do a clown doll.
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OMG.....my daughters would have nightmares forever!
On a funny note, we have had some less than stellar parent moments in an attempt to get our daughters to stay in bed and sleep at night when they were younger
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