Portable North Pole provides adorable, personalized Santa guilt trip

Got kids? Then you know the clock is rapidly ticking away on the time left to wrangle slightly decent behavior out of them with the omnipresent threat of a shrinking bag of toys from Santa.

At this time of year, kids respond remarkably well to threats of fewer toys under the tree due to missteps in cleaning their room, doing their homework, or basically not bending to Mommy and Daddy’s will as the promise of Lego, dollies and new gaming consoles draws ever closer. I myself have fallen prey to the temptation on several occasions this year, knowing my kids are probably at the tail end of Santa blackmail range. “Could you get Mommy a Diet Pepsi and feed the cat? I’d hate it if anything were to happen to any of your impending swag…”

That’s why the Portable North Pole site offering a personalized video for your kids is so genius. It allows you to upload pics of your kids, some desired toys, and takes a few personalized details like favorite foods and eye/hair color, and combines them with an effective dangling carrot (if they’ve gotten along with siblings or scored good grades) with praise or a subtle hint that they’re on “naughty watch” to keep them in line for the next few days.

You can put together your kids’ videos here- it takes about fifteen minutes, but it’s definitely worth it in terms of two further days of obedience.