Somewhere along the way, my son got the idea that Christmas was about getting stuff (I know, you're surprised). That's been a difficult notion to budge. I could have kissed his second-grade teacher last year when my son came home with a book whose main character decided to be a "secret elf" and conduct a simple random act of kindness for a classmate. In the story, this act of kindness inspires other classmates to do the same. The book (whose title escapes me and my attempts to find it through a Google search) inspired my son, and a new tradition was born. His secret elf adventures currently involve taping a piece of candy to a note and slipping these notes into his classmates' desks when they aren't looking. Simple, right? But delicious fun!
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Secret Elf
Somewhere along the way, my son got the idea that Christmas was about getting stuff (I know, you're surprised). That's been a difficult notion to budge. I could have kissed his second-grade teacher last year when my son came home with a book whose main character decided to be a "secret elf" and conduct a simple random act of kindness for a classmate. In the story, this act of kindness inspires other classmates to do the same. The book (whose title escapes me and my attempts to find it through a Google search) inspired my son, and a new tradition was born. His secret elf adventures currently involve taping a piece of candy to a note and slipping these notes into his classmates' desks when they aren't looking. Simple, right? But delicious fun!
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