Hide The Toys!
Every Christmas parents and children are pitted against each other in a serious game. This challenge will push each one's intellect and will to the limits. It is called "Ultimate Hide and Seek". The parents hide the presents in locations that they know only exist. This "hiding" is done for the purpose that their little ones might have a moment of surprise and glee when they open their gifts at Christmas. The children, on the other hand, begin exercising their instincts and deductive skills. They can smell toys within a 578 yard radius (try driving by a ToysRUs with a 5 year). They know that it is their mission to find these toys and spring them from their camouflaged prisons. Somehow they instinctively know these boxes that are so colorfully wrapped belong to them. Nothing will keep them from laying claim to what is rightfully theirs.
Two of my friends have mastered this game of "Ultimate Hide and Seek". Charles, who is my close friend and co-worker, has two little boys, CJ (age 13) and Chad (11). Actually I can't say they are little because these two young men are as big as the front line for the Ohio State Buckeyes- by themselves (not fat, BIG). Charles uses the "scared straight" method of gift hiding. Every year, he boldly tells his boys, "I am hiding the toys in THE ROOM". I said to Charles, "you know they're going to look." Charles laughs (fiendishly, I must add), "They would never go into THE ROOM." I looked at Charles puzzled and he continues. "Since their first Christmas I have told them the Christmas monster lives in THE ROOM in the basement. Every year on December 20th, the Christmas monster takes up residency and eats any little boy (and BIG boys) that attempt to go in there looking for toys. They have never went into THE ROOM." Charles has won this round.
Donna has three children, Courtney, Ryan, & Zack. Donna said that she hides the children's presents in the one spot that they would never think. You see, in Donna's house they have two bathrooms. These are normal children who do not take a bath. So she uses their bathroom as a place to hide presents. Donna says, "They are so afraid of taking a bath, that they would never think to look there." Hopefully she doesn't buy the presents too early.
There is one other game of "seek" that parents have to play at during this season- seeking the presents for the children. This task can be a nightmare in it's self. Below are a few tips on buying presents.
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