re: So who here is doing the creepy Elf on a Shelf thing?

Don't start it...My wife take part in it and has for a few years with our youngest daughter. I refuse to be a part of lying to my children, that includes Santa. I can never look my kids in the eye and tell them lying is bad when I have been lying to them their entire childhood, and one day tell them I had been...seems hypocritical to me. I was pissed off at my parents when they finally came clean to me about Santa, was made fun of by peers at school because I "still believed" and my parents kept promising me Santa was real...My wife thinks it's cute and the magic of Christmas, she knows my stance and why, and I've told her to do what she wants, just don't include me. I prefer to teach my children the real reason to the season and leave it at that.