Kindness Elves!

So you all know my very strong opinion about "The Elf on the Shelf," a friend of mine posted a link to his:
http://theimaginationtree.com/2013/11/alternative-elf-on-shelf-tradition-kindness-elf.html

And THIS *points to above* is what we should be doing with our children and teaching our children.

I wholeheartedly agree that we should be teaching our children and promoting the message of love, kindness and gratitude and that they are apart of making this happen in their world.

Too much time has been spent on focusing our children on negativity and what they are doing wrong.

We learn far better from doing then being told.  So if we make them apart of the process from young ages when it comes to doing acts of kindness and gratitude, hopefully they will carry this throughout all areas of their lives.

If the printer had ink, I'd be printing it off and sending it to my son's classroom.  WHY?
Because they spend WAY too much time on what NOT to do and not near enough time on what kid's should DO. There is so much attention on what is "good" and "bad" that I am routinely told by 3-5 members of W's classmates that he was "bad" today because he didn't do x/y/z.
Some of W's issues are directly related to his ADHD, some of it is a reflection on how bored he is because he is the only child in his class who was in full day every day kindergarten last year and from what he tells me most of what they are doing he has done before (and he has, whether it was with me at home with the day care kids or at school).

I am thinking I might still try to find some elves to do this with him in the weeks to come.

:D