I don't really understand (Elf on Shelf)

[zoidberg]

So, an elf sitting meekly with folded hands in an empty space demonstrating that toys are put away? Sounds amazing.

[thinkofthesoldiers]

Well technically your kids should be cleaning up after themselves so that the elf can report their good behavior to Santa. And they don't have to do naughty things. I think having the elf do funny things is more fun. Toilet paper the xmas tree? Funny. Rip the head off your doll? Naughty.

[cleo29]

I don't do this, I just move Sally, our elf, around the house. I might have sent a naughty picture of Sally and Drosselmeyer getting it on, but that was just for H's amusement. lol

[spankswife]

Because it's funny to the kids.

[Deleted]

T hates her elf. She says no one likes a tattletale. She also gets mad when princess elf touches her stuff.

[renna]

Dec 18, 2014 13:52:46 GMT -5 cleo29 said:

I don't do this, I just move Sally, our elf, around the house.

Same here. I just move Franklin around the house and my son (age 6) loves to wake up and go looking for him. For us it's just about finding the little elf wherever he is, not about whatever the book says. It's just a daily treasure hunt for the kid and it's one simple and cute thing to hide.

I did tweak our elf with wires so now he is bendable in his arms and legs so that helps with where he can be placed.

[FastHands]

Dec 18, 2014 13:59:01 GMT -5 @t2j said:

T hates her elf. She says no one likes a tattletale. She also gets mad when princess elf touches her stuff.

I read that as "She also gets mad when princess elf touches herself."

[CurlyQ284]

Eh. If we do it I'm going to make him do nice things. My kid eats his grapes because I told him Thomas the Train does. It might be easier to get him to do stuff with the elf.

[jreeds]

Mostly we just move ours around. Or it peeks out of cabinets etc. I think the most elaborate is when H had him in the fisher price airplane "flying". But we don't have him do bad stuff per se.

[thinkofthesoldiers]

Dec 18, 2014 13:57:56 GMT -5 mekiakoo said:

Dec 18, 2014 13:52:18 GMT -5 thinkofthesoldiers said:

Well technically your kids should be cleaning up after themselves so that the elf can report their good behavior to Santa. And they don't have to do naughty things. I think having the elf do funny things is more fun. Toilet paper the xmas tree? Funny. Rip the head off your doll? Naughty.

Didn't someone on here say that their friend's kids used like 70 rolls of TP all over the house because the Elf TP'ed the tree? Lol. 

It should not shock anyone that I think that has more to do with shitty parwnting/not supervising the kids than an elf.