Parents reflect on the challenges of maintaining the Elf on the Shelf tradition during Christmas
It was great while it lasted — giggly parents contorting the cheeky, freaky Elf on the Shelf into weird and wonderful positions to the children’s delight every morning in December. We dipped its tiny face in Nutella — legs sticking out of the jar and then faux-grumbled to our laughing children about what a sneaky little Elf we had. We named ours Elfis. We gave him a lovable rogue personality and each night came up with new places for him to explore. What a champ.
And then the children started questioning if we were moving him or not. And then one evening, we forgot to move him. In our defence, there are only so many places in our house to contain this little red gremlin. But that is the problem with forced traditions. The company behind the Elf on the Shelf billed the toy as an interactive hide-and-seek game, a new Christmas tradition, but such things are more likely to work long-term if they slowly evolv
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