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Sodding tooth fairy!

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solidgoldbrass · 26/07/2012 02:27

OK, DS is nearly 8 and perhaps he should be growing out of the tooth fairy (though there are plenty of adults who believe in gods and that's no more ridiculous)... A tooth came out today. DS was mucking about with it after its eviction from his mouth and dropped it and lost it. Lots of weeping. So I suggested that the tooth fairy would be able to smell the tooth and discover it, and still leave him some money, and that we could also write the tooth fairy a letter and leave that under his pillow.

So far so good. Only I don't have more than 35p on me, so I have written a letter from the tooth fairy apologizing for short-changing him and blaming it on all those people drinking too much Olympics Coca Cola and losing all their teeth.

AIBU? For allowing him to believe in the tooth fairy, for using the tooth fairy as a propaganda tool, or for being too skint to have a pound handy?

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McPhee · 26/07/2012 02:30

Grin NU at all.

My nephew thought the tooth fairy could possibly leave him a 3DS game instead of some money. He's also 8 Grin

AdoraBell · 26/07/2012 03:41

NBU one little bit.

Good thinking on the evils of fizzy drinks too.

Homebird8 · 26/07/2012 04:49

Our tooth fairy is completely unreliable and delivered a British pound coin to a child who now lives in New Zealand!

The sewerage works fairies found the tooth my DS swallowed once. It took a few days but they did pay up eventually and sent a letter to explain the delay.

All propaganda regarding tooth brushing is allowed even when they're in their 40s (or so my DH seems to think!) Wink

fridakahlo · 26/07/2012 04:52

Do you not have a sheckles jar you could raid?

SkinnyVanillaLatte · 26/07/2012 06:10

It has been known for the tooth fairy to be too busy here,and turn up the next night instead. With all the magic in the world even the tooth fairy can run out of time or mum can forget.

50ShadesOfGreggs · 26/07/2012 06:29

I have heard of a tooth fairy who wrote a letter saying that if the kid's bedroom had been tidy he wouldn't have lost the tooth! :o

ripsishere · 26/07/2012 07:10

YANBU. I had to break the big news about the TF and FC to DD when she was nine, almost ten.
She took it very badly.

MadderHat · 26/07/2012 07:14

I have heard of a tooth fairy who got a bent wing due to the untidiness of the child's bedroom and refused to either hunt for the tooth nor deliver the cash until it was tidier AND she was recovered. The letter (delivered to the bedroom exterior window ledge - the dad was a window cleaner) even came complete with a guilt trip about not being able to deliver to other children in the area and having to have a locum. We all felt that was a bit extreme, but apparently the room now gets tidied each tooth loss.

Purpleprickles · 26/07/2012 07:19

YANBU my ds is only 3 but I think I'll let him believe in the tooth fairy/fc until he is ready to stop. Why shatter the illusion? My parents never told any of us, we just kind of realised ourselves. Also when I was at a tooth loosing age the going rate was 20p per tooth so 35p is loads more GrinGrin

CheerMum · 26/07/2012 09:07

Dd is ten and still expects the tooth fairy to pay up ( even though she "knows") Grin

D0oinMeCleanin · 26/07/2012 09:11

Our tooth fairy is on holiday more often than she is not. dd1 sometimes has to wait up to a fortnight for her to come back. Being a tooth fairy obviously pays well.

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solidgoldbrass · 26/07/2012 09:38

Oh I definitely plan to let DS grow out of the tooth fairy and father christmas by himself. If a kid's got to have superstitions, those are pretty benign, and it helps to equate them with all the other imaginary beings like gods; hopefully he'll grow out of the lot at the same time.

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changeforthebetter · 26/07/2012 09:41

The tooth fairy round here is a useless fecker. She often arrives a few days late with the wonga and forgets the tooth Hmm I also suspect that she is a bit of a wino, judging by the empties in the kitchen! Slattern!! Grin

MrsReiver · 26/07/2012 09:48

When I was little our tooth fairy was too fat to fly through the wee gap in my skylight. I still have a very vivid mental image of a little chubby fairy with tiny wings flapping furiously. Bless her.

PomBearWithAnOFRS · 26/07/2012 11:01

Our tooth fairy went on strike after being called out five times in a fortnight Wink but then no4 son lost his first one. We don't do the under the pillow thing, we put the tooth in a dish of water with the tooth in the bottom, then in the morning, the water changes colour so we can see what colour the fairy wings were. No4 son got a trainee - it took two nights, and was a colour we've never had before. DD is almost 10 and still believes Grin

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 26/07/2012 11:12

The tooth fairy is visiting our house alot- my 10yo DD is popping out baby teeth at a rate of knots.

TF has to leave a cartoony picture with a £1 taped to it. Grin

TheHappyHissy · 26/07/2012 11:19

DS lost his tooth in the play ground, the Toothfairy sent him a poem that said she'd give him another pound if the tooth was ever found.

She's a gambling fairy....

She lost. Found the tooth the very next day!

£2 down...

ErrorError · 26/07/2012 11:53

YANBU, If your DS buys the coca cola line then that makes you a really cool Mum. I'd have loved a note like that. On the other hand, at that age he might already know the truth and just be after the cash?

I found out in the most traumatic way... I lost a tooth at school and didn't tell my Mum, just hid it under the pillow. Was devastated in the morning to find the tooth still there! Obviously because I hadn't told Mum so she couldn't tell the tooth fairy to visit.

As a result, Mum said if I was old enough to trick the tooth fairy, then there's something I should know about Father Christmas too...

All my childhood delusions were shattered at once at the age of 7, I cried on her bed for hours and shouted at her for lying to me!!

Anyway, point of my story is... I don't think 8 is too old to still believe, but I think kids finding out on their own or being introduced gently to the idea that parents have a hand in it, is better than the way I found out. It'll probably happen sooner rather than later, as I got teased for still believing in Father Christmas when I was a nipper, (before this, friends and I used to compare his handwriting on our 'thanks for the sherry & mince pie' letters - logical explanation was they were all different so he could cover his tracks! Grin)

mumof4sons · 26/07/2012 14:17

TF delivered £10 to my 14 year old DS yesterday. The amount was so high because DS had to endure 3 Novocaine injections and a dentist pulling out three very stubborn baby teeth.

CrunchyFrog · 26/07/2012 14:28

Outlet tooth fairies (Gertrude and Bobby) are shit. They leave IOUs nearly every time. On at least two occasions, they have staggered in pissed and failed to find the tooth. Also, DS1 is testing Bobby, so it is somewhere different every time!

I hate that they believe in it, but it was introduced through peer pressure, and I don't them to spoil it for the other kids.

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