This Christmas, Santa Claus will have to find a new way to monitor children in Cobb County, Georgia.

Elf on a Shelf was created in 2005, so I am too old to experience it when I was young, and I (luckily, for many people) do not have children of my own, so my understanding of this tradition is Purchasing through second-hand goods.

If you are not familiar with this concept, here is a brief summary. Your child got an elf doll, and it was named something ridiculous. Chilly Willy is an example given this morning. The elf "sit" on the shelf and "observe" your child's behavior. Then the elves "fly" to the North Pole, and if your children are bad, they will report them to Santa Claus. Then the elf will return to your house before the children wake up and will watch from another shelf in the house.

This is just another layer of the complicated tricks that lie to your children around Christmas to get them to perform. Obviously, today's children do not believe that the omnipresent entity (Santa Claus) will judge their behavior from a distance, and they need to know that they always have a literal eyeball to encourage correct behavior.

When people don't have a lot of extra time to hang out, all this sounds like a big trouble for parents.

I conducted a small poll with some parents at work to see if they would support the legal ban on banning elves on Winnebago County shelves, but the result was a resounding "yes"!

Note: Shannon Zimmerman did admit in Q98.5 that this is one of the only ways she can make children perform well during the holidays. I'm not here to judge.

This is good news for my parents who are tired of hiding an elf doll at home every Christmas. A county in the United States is solving this problem.

This is obviously half-joking, but it may bring comfort to parents across the country, because they are not the only ones who hate the elf on the shelf, because everyone seems to do it.

Obviously something happened in the judge's family life, because this announcement is very interesting.

The signer recalled the terrible incident in his home. Three children were sent to school in tears. One of the children was labeled as an "elf murderer" and accused of causing the elves to "lose their magic."

The children sounded like an absolute explosion. I can't believe I missed that magic.