Our friend Elf is a hit in our house! My 3 year old twins love to look for him throughout the day! Sometimes I feel like I might get caught! I do think it has help bring some of the childish fun back to Christmas! What a great toy and friend in our family!

We live in Georgia and a friend teaches there. We had planned a trip for last week to New York City. And her elf stowed away in her suitcase. Every day we sent pictures back to the class letting them see how the Elf had enjoyed the trip. He was hiding in the suitcase at check in at the airport, rode in the front seat of a NYC cab, visited many other places. The children looked forward to the next text!!! It was so much fun.

I'm a first grade teacher and many of my students have the Elf on the Shelf. They can't stop talking about it- they absolutely love it! They told me he watches how they behave at home so they can stay on the nice list. If only he could watch their behavior at school!

Our children have named our elf "Frosty". They both love and fear him! lol They know that if they find him in a different location in the morning, that means that Frosty has gone back to the North Pole to report to Santa as to whether or not they've been naughty or nice since the last time he's moved in the home. Our home has an open floor plan, so Frosty is generally positioned somewhere where he is in perfect view of the actions of the children. He enforces fairly good behavior from our children at this time of the year. :0)

A friend of mine gave this to us three years ago and it has started such a wonderful tradition in our house. I recommend this to anyone with young children. It's now one of my favorite gifts to give.

I love Elf on A Shelf, it's an adorable story, and the kids get very excited each morning looking around for where the elf is hiding. It is a lot of fun for them, and a lot of fun for me at night when I decide where to put that little elf next!

This is a very good book for children! My grandson is 3 and he loves it! His mom reads it to him quite a bit and he really liked giving his elf a name and also trying to figure out where he is everyday! I would've never thought something like this would catch on quite like it has but...

We got "Stanley" last year before Christmas and my kids love him. I thought my kids were too old (they were 8&9 when he arrived) but they love it. They tell everyone that visits the story and are very protective of him. Their behavior improves slightly during the month (he starts his 'job' on Dec. 1) so it is a good tool. I like that it is a family tradition that we can look forward to every December.

This is great. It's time to start your own tradition.

I love the idea of this but my now five year old was scared of it both last year and this year. She won't even let me take it out of the box.

I believe this is a great family tradition, if following certain guidelines. I've seen so many fires start up because these Elfs were places near hot surfaces or lamps.

We really don't need another tradition! In our house we know that everyone makes mistakes, we don't need anyone to remind us of that! We can't be perfect? We live by grace! I know of one family whose 3-yr-old is truly freaked out by the elf.he cries and screams when he sees it, so they had to put it away.