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to resist the tooth fairy peer pressure?

56 replies

aaaahyouidiot · 27/10/2013 08:27

I'm a tooth fairy first timer. Other children in the class have had five pound notes, toys and one reportedly got a tablet! I'm planning on leaving 50p or £1. AIBU? Will I cause my child to be ostracised?

OP posts:
Littleredsquirrel · 27/10/2013 08:56

£1 here and in every household I know of at our school.

Plus in all the movies its only a coin so anything more will give the game away

stargirl1701 · 27/10/2013 09:00

Put in a £1 and a disclosing tablet Grin

MetellaEstMater · 27/10/2013 09:03

£1 is fine.

We are embarking on the whole Father Christmas thing this year and reading frogwatcher's post I do wonder if it is a road to ruin.

frogwatcher42 · 27/10/2013 09:06

Metella - it is the road to ruin!!!. I have never seen such hurt in dds eyes as when we had to confess to all, as she questioned FC, Easter Bunny and toothfairy. I couldn't lie to her - she was asking too much and looking me in the eye and the questions were too hard to answer!

Her eyes were so hurt. She cried for hours. All the magic has now left her world!

Awful.

But in truth I would have to do it again- its a right of passage isn't it?

gintastic · 27/10/2013 09:12

You could do notes in teeny tiny writing and little glittery footprints if you wanted to do the magic of the tooth fairy - worth more than money to a child I reckon. My DD only want money to feed her Moshi Monsters habit, and the odd £1 here and there is plenty.

mousmous · 27/10/2013 09:15

a tablet? as in tablet computer?

we did 1£ for the first and 50p for the following.

greenfolder · 27/10/2013 09:17

erm...... not proud of this but......

dd1- why did tooth fairy leave me £1 but chloe £2?

because she knows chloes parents dont give her pocket money and felt sorry for her.

not my finest moment but all i could think of at no notice- you need to think of a good answer in advance.

greenfolder · 27/10/2013 09:18

oh and tablet---hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahhah

nuts

OddBoots · 27/10/2013 09:23

Maybe a dishwasher tablet, a Fairy one (get it? no? I'll get my coat).

We only do 50p here, I guess I'm as tight as it gets but I don't think my children suffer for it.

Graceparkhill · 27/10/2013 09:23

A work colleague tells me that his6 year old got £20- yes twenty pounds- for a first tooth.
That is the going rate in his school as confirmed by other parents!

Melissakitkat · 27/10/2013 09:25

We have left a different coin each time from 1p up to £1 but each one has a star sticker on it to show it is a special coin from the tooth fairy - our dd has saved them all - it's not the money it's just the idea xxx

Thants · 27/10/2013 09:29

I used to get 20p!

MakeHayIsAWhaleNow · 27/10/2013 09:37

Ooh, I like the idea of the start stickers, thank you! . Just going to be £1 here, our fairy is a bit skirt!

I got a note from the tooth fairy once. I sort of believed it I was 12 at the time Blush

MakeHayIsAWhaleNow · 27/10/2013 09:37

Star stickers, not start stickers Blush again....

ForwardSheCried · 27/10/2013 09:39

£5? £2? WHAT?! Shock It was 20p when I was a kid. Bloody inflation.

ForwardSheCried · 27/10/2013 09:41

That said, whenever I lost a tooth I used to strip off my Flower Fairies and open a shop for the Tooth Fairy to visit, in case she was short of cloths and fancied a new outfit. My attempt at wrangling a bit more money out of my poor mother!

ForwardSheCried · 27/10/2013 09:42

*clothes, even.

Heartbrokenmum73 · 27/10/2013 09:42

I thought this thread was going to be an 'I'm not doing the tooth fairy thing because it's not true'. And I was going to say 'don't be such a miserable bastard'. Thank you OP for it being something perfectly normal instead!

My dc get £1 per tooth, which was a bugger the other week when DS lost three teeth in a week (two in one night!) and I was low on cash.

DD had a little jewellery box and some wooden jewellery when she lost her first teeth but this was because she was four and lost her two front top teeth in an accident, rather than naturally, which involved a trip to the hospital. So I explained the tooth fairy had brought her something extra special for being so brave but that it was a one-off.

Heartbrokenmum73 · 27/10/2013 09:42

And it was 10p a tooth for me too.

JCDenton · 27/10/2013 09:46

I'll just leave this here.

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JCDenton · 27/10/2013 09:48

Oops, I'll make it clicky...
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kim147 · 27/10/2013 09:50

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Sokmonsta · 27/10/2013 10:52

Tooth fairy gets all their money selling the teeth back to the dentist to make false ones - why else do you think they want you to keep your teeth nice and clean Wink

OOAOML · 27/10/2013 11:01

£1 here, and nothing extra for the first tooth. We decided that because DD has the memory of an elephant and would have been severely disappointed to get £2 first time and not for the rest. Mine don't really believe in the tooth fairy or Santa but go along with it. We don't do the Easter Bunny. And they have strict instructions not to spoil it for any other children who do believe.

MaryZombie · 27/10/2013 11:04

So, say 20 teeth per child, 3 children in the family, a fiver a tooth - that's, erm, £300.

That's a very generous tooth fairy.