Did we discuss this? Elf on a shelf

[quesyrah]

www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/12/16/the-elf-on-the-shelf-is-preparing-your-child-to-live-in-a-future-police-state-professor-says/

This has been floating around my FB. Mostly accompanied by supportive posts claiming this is how the elf is going to ruin our children.

I think it's horse shit

[andrewsgal]

Oh FFS people are BSC

[zbeesma86]

Oh yes. A little elf that comes out for a week once a year will ruin your child because he tells Santa if you're good or bad. (Total sarcasm).

People need to take a look around if they want to see what will really ruin their children. This isn't one of them.

[amynumbers]

At a holiday party this weekend, a five year old keept telling my four year old that Santa was watching them and wouldn't bring presents if he didn't share.

His family doesn't do the elf.

It's not about the god damn elf.

[.]

I didn't read the article, but this is stupid. The idea that kids are 'being watched' is nothing new! I mean, "he sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake..." C'mon now people.

[ashb62]

El.Oh.El.

[fintin]

Another example of how people take everything to extremes. I'm with Amy it's not the fucking elf. There has always been the message that santa is watching.

[scattered]

The first time I read the headline on FB I thought it was a joke- like daily currant style.

Nope.

[rosesandpetals]

When the cops stop drive-by shooting 12 year old boys in a park, I'll have time to worry about the political ramifications of using the elf.