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Below is a site where you can make a personal video from Santa to your child/grandchild. Very cute. I made one for my 3 yr old and will play it for her tomorrow.

portablenorthpole.tv

great find, my son is going to love this. thanks

Thanks for the link...very cute

Thanks! I played it for DS this morning. It was fun.

Thanks, I was looking for this the other day and couldn't find it.
They did a really good job on it this year. Santa said my son's name perfectly and it is an unusual name. My son loved it!

Thank you!!! This might have made my non believer a little more of a believer

I was wondering if Santa actually says the name of the child. There was a list of names but of course my DDs name was not one of them. I could have selected another version of her name but she can read her own name and am guaranteed she would scream foul!

It was precious to watch her as she watched the video. Big saucer eyes and whispering Santa Claus. I selected the part of how Santa knows if you have been naughty or nice since we have been using that method for her stubborn states. They couldn't have done a better job on that one! So today when she was trying to be stubborn, all I had to say is 'I hope Santa's elves aren't watching.' Haha ... she quickly changed her tune.

Katelyn's mom are you at all concerned that your daughter may resent the effort put into trying to trick her to behave? I understand this is a common cultural practice but personally I would advise caution. I know as a gifted kid I felt betrayed when I found out Santa was a lie being used to manipulate my behavior (and that was long before there were tricky videos to reinforce the point). YMMV and all that - just thought it was worth mentioning.

Not at all. I personally think our culture has gone to the extreme with attachment parenting. And then is baffled why their DC doesn't know how to play on their own and is always attached to their parents or frustrated that they, the parents, don't have any private time to themselves.

I have no problem with 'trickery' as you put it. If it makes her stop and rethink her actions than great. My parents did the same with us as kids and though I figured out Santa and the Easter Bunny way before the normal age; I certainly did not resent the attempts of using it to keep my behavior in check.

I'm not sure what it has to do with kids learning to play on their own?

It is interesting how different kids react to this sort of thing. One common characteristic of gifted kids is having a stronger sense of justice. For some kids that can play out in feeling insulted or disrespected when they are lied to. Another possibility is in feeling like adults are kind of pathetic that they have to resort to lying to get behavioral compliance. I remember feeling as a kid like the adults who had to try the hardest with the threats were the ones who were most pathetic and powerless.