- Mother videos children reading letter from 'Santa' telling them to behave
- Letter says he has been 'watching' them and they've been 'naughty'
- He gives them '13 sleeps' to mend their behaviour - or not receive presents
- Tyler Cole, 8, reads the letter with his sister then both burst out crying
To
hear you have been badly behaved can be distressing enough for a child,
but to hear it from Father Christmas himself is enough to upset anyone.
That's
what happened to Tyler, 8, and Freya, 4, after receiving a letter from
'Santa' telling them that they were on the naughty list - and might not
be receiving any presents.
Laura Cole, from Epsom in Surrey, devised the elaborate plan to encourage her children to behave on the run up to Christmas.
Laura, pictured with Tyler and Freya, who are behaving well after receiving the letter from 'Santa'
The
married mother-of-three wrote a letter posing as Santa Claus, addressed
it to two of her children Tyler, Freya, but not Logan, who is only one,
and filmed Tyler reading it out loud.
In
the footage, the young boy can be heard reading how Father Christmas
had been 'watching' them for 'two weeks' and was 'certain' that both
Tyler and Freya would be on his 'naughty list'.
'You have not been good children,' he writes and gives them '13 sleeps' to turn the situation around.
Freya, 4, Tyler, 8, and Logan, 1 (left to right) during happier times sitting in front of a Christmas tree
'If you do not start behaving you will not receive the lovely presents I have for you both,' he ends.
Tyler and his younger sister Freya looked crushed in the video, as the boy's voice quivers as he reads out the letter.
As
he is reading, the little blonde-haired girl, dressed in a pink
dressing gown, hugs her legs and looks upset, saying: 'We can't be on
his naughty list!'
He continues reading as the Freya cries in the background, rubbing her eyes.
The offending letter was typed up by the children's mother and put in a stocking by the chimney
At
the end of the letter, Tyler and his sister look up at their mother,
and the little boy throws the the piece of paper on the floor sobbing:
'What are you looking at us like that for - it makes me upset!
The mother says: 'You have 13 days to improve.'
To which Tyler says, indicating to his sister: 'I know, but she keeps annoying me!
'And I can't just stop her,' he adds, his face trembling and his arms crossed in front of him.
'We can work on this together,' the mother tells them, to which Freya says: 'I don't want to be on the naughty list.'
Laura,
who lives with her husband Dennis, 32, said in her defence: 'From the
moment they wake up, to the moment they go to sleep they’re fighting
with each other, arguing and annoying one another.
'I
wrote the letter and put it in the stocking that is hanging on the
chimney, Freya was so excited when she found it and came running in at
quarter to six, "mummy, mummy, a letter from Santa".
'Tyler
opened the letter and that’s when I started filming. It’s not that I
didn’t think he would take it seriously, but I just thought he’d brush
it off.
Tyler Cole is heartbroken that he is on the naughty list and that Father Christmas might not bring him gifts
Upset: Tyler starts to cry and his little sister Freya wipes her eyes after hearing the news
'When
he started crying I felt like crying with him but I was just trying to
focus on saying encouraging things about their behaviour.
'After
reading the letter they were amazing, like angels, Tyler helped Freya
get dressed and even held her hand on the way to school which was a big
improvement.
'Usually you have to tell Freya 10 times to get dressed, but that morning I only had to ask her once.
'I
do feel bad though, and when we got to school I went in to talk to the
teacher to tell her what I’d done in case he got upset in class!'
Laura, who works for Crystal Ski, said the letter has had the desired effect.
'He's always watching': Laura with Dennis and their three children Logan, Tyler and Freya visiting Santa
'One day on and their behaviour has been amazing - completely different to before they received the letter,' she said.
'They
normally fight like cat and dog from the minute they wake up, but this
morning Tyler helped Freya get dressed and walk her to school. And after
school they played nicely together - they even wrote their Christmas
cards together.
'We have left the letter from Santa on the side so they can see it.
'If they start to argue, we point to it and say "remember, he's always watching".
'My
husband wasn't there when Tyler read out the letter, but the next
morning they came and told him about it. My husband told them that they
need to buck their ideas up.'
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