Christmas, its like a jolly dose of act right for children

We have all see the people who set up their tree long before Christmas and keep it up for weeks after Christmas is over. I used to think those people where nuts or just flat out lazy, until I became a parent. Now that I am much older and wiser, I have realized that putting up your tree creates a different type of leverage in your household. The little people that run our house run with a new sense of awareness the second that tree pops up and there is talk of the fat man in the red coat that comes to visit them. I highly encourage every parent that is out there to keep this leverage around as long as you can.