This Santa thing is brilliant. It's not just the fact that it is the best child behaviour management technique ever invented, it's the level of sophistication in that technique that has been developed over the years. Maxime has been wonderfully behaved for the whole of the month of December, well ever since we started opening the doors on the advent calendar to reveal little chocolates. Chocolate at breakfast?... On the 1st December he thought all his Christmas' had come at once (they almost did - this is only his fifth). Needless to say Capucine and Gaston also cottoned on quickly. And just when you think the "Santa only brings presents to good little boys" must wear out after the first two weeks, it doesn't. And even better, from the middle of December onwards introducing the phrase, "you have to be in your bed because Santa comes round to count the little boys in their beds to understand how many toys he has to bring", merely serves to add extra authenticity to it all; I have never seen Maxime run to his bed like he did tonight. Tremendous. It's just a shame that we can't do this all year round, but that's when I realised that full time work in the months of November and December roughly equate to fourty-one 35 hour working weeks...clearly there's a significant chance that work-shy Santa is French.
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