to ask for your help with the Tooth Fairy...

[TokenGirl1]

My little one's first tooth came out today. As it's the first, I need to set the tone for all future teeth. She is under the impression (helped by her little brother) that she will receive a chocolate coin and maybe another penny (a shiny 10p). I have some fairy dust to sprinkle too.

What do you do for your children when the Tooth Fairy visits?

[Rowgtfc72]

Our tooth fairy leaves a pound and a note. You can print off nice ones off the internet or desperately write one if you forget! Dds friends seem to be getting five pounds a tooth, we've explained they must have a different tooth fairy!

[starlight1234]

Best thing I ever did a friend of mine makes signs with little bags on that you attach to the top of the bed to put tooth in ,,It stops all the fumbling around for those tiny teeth. Although DS did put a little piece of white paper in one night to try tirck the fairy.

I leave £1, checked going rate locally... My friend though also left older child a toothbrush and a note to tell him to clean his teeth better.

[FlimFlamFloo]

I bought a tooth keepsake box from amazon so, in this house, the TF leaves 50p and the tooth. We told Ds1 that the TF had a lot of other teeth and we could keep his in the box for genetic cloning!

[Joysmum]

It's £1 here and more for a molar. The tooth fairy leave letters commenting on how she likes teeth that have been well cared for.

[dietcokefan]

Don't set the bar too high! I believe the tooth fairy round here deals in £1 coins (though an enterprising 8 year old once tried to tell me that coins are too heavy and the tooth fairy can only carry notes.....)

[Canthisonebeused]

After hearing stories of £5 and £10 from dds class mates I told dd the secret is that in fact anything over £1 is left by the parents. But I told her not tell anyone that .

[Solopower1]

Not bizarre! My son was scared the tooth fairy would abduct him, so I had to come clean. Then he told all his friends I was the tooth fairy. The first I knew about it was when they all started grinning toothlessly at me at school.

[Silvercatowner]

My son used to have panic/anxiety attacks after losing teeth. I've just remembered that (he's 26 so it was a while ago!). Bizarre.

[TokenGirl1]

Scrappy - that's what I'm thinking with the notes, it's opening up a can of worms. It didn't occur to me until affriend mentioned it.

40 teeth later and I think that I'll be wishing I hadn't gone down that route. I'm not going to feel guilty about this one, I put so much effort into birthdays and Christmas and I give them my all the rest of the time.

[Mama1980]

We have a tooth dragon (don't ask apparently fairies aren't real but dragons absolutely are) he leaves a £1.
Ds1 then tells the rest of the family (very large family) who all cough up between 50p and £5 each for being so brave. Luckily he's grateful and my adoring/slightly dopey family are happy for the excuse to give him money without me wingeing at them that it's too much (which it is!)

[BertieBotts]

Don't they get disappointed if they get more for the first tooth?

When I was a child I got 50p for normal teeth and £1 for molars because they're bigger.

[WhereHas1999DissappearedToo]

I tried to do $2, but I have hardly any change, so either the tooth fairy is late or DD got loads of 10c/20c/50c pieces from what I could find from under the couch or at the bottom of my handbag.

[elQuintoConyo]

In Spain we have a mouse called Perez who leaves one whole shiney Euro.

No notes, no fairy dust, no bollocks. I also rein it in at Christmas, as I'm so lazy (hamper, gifts in the advent calendar etc, bugger me it goes on!).

[HicDraconis]

$2 for the first tooth and $1 for subsequent ones here. With the first tooth we also left a note (printed out in the tiniest font we could find, they needed a magnifying glass to read it) congratulating DS on growing up and growing his grown up teeth, plus a reminder that the tooth fairy didn't like dirty crumbly teeth (they get used as flooring in the fairy castle stables) and that the whitest shiniest teeth got polished and used for tiling the fairy queen's bathroom.

At 5 they loved it. At now 8 and 6 they have decided we are the tooth fairy but they play along with the story to humour me :)

[vvviola]

$2 and a book with "to DD love from the tooth fairy" written in sparkly pen in much disguised handwriting.

The book was big softy DH's idea. Drives me batty, but kind of gets us out of the whole notes/messages/fairy dust/special present in a special fairy house palaver that some of DD's friends parents seem to have got caught up in.

[AlwaysDancing1234]

DS got a £2 coin for first tooth as that was all the change I had! For subsequent teeth it's been a shiny £1
I also went on the computer and did a "first tooth certificate" from the tooth fairy (a boy tooth fairy in our case - got a cartoon picture from Google). DS was so chuffed with it in the morning, more so than the money. I think it's nice to keep the magic alive for them while they are still little innocent and believing!

[littledrummergirl]

50p because the tooth fairy likes silver.

[SmileAndNod]

DS has complained only this week that our tooth fairy is mean in leaving only a pound coin after one of his classmates was left a ten pound note under their pillow .

Here, it's a pound. No note, no fairy sprinkles. Because I'm not sure our fairy could be arsed to do that x 20 teeth x 3 children .

[scrappydappydoo]

Don't start with notes - I thought it would be cute to do notes but did now writes letters with questions. She gets upset if tooth fairy doesn't reply .Really wish I hadn't started it.

[gastrognome]

2 euros. Gave her a tiny bag I had (that came with some jewellery I had bought) and she put the tooth in that under her pillow. No notes or ceremony. Never occurred to me!

[BertieBotts]

Not sure about chocolate coins. DS was upset his coin wasn't chocolate but I didn't think that the tooth fairy would give out sweets. When he complained to a friend's mum () she said that she thought chocolate coins would melt in the bed anyway, which I thought was a really good point!

[BertieBotts]

I leave 50 cents - in UK around 40p!

Every time I get a shiny new coin in change or something I hide them away so I can always give an extra shiny one - I think it makes it more special. Not sure DS notices though! I think 50ps are quite good coins to leave because you get special ones sometimes, like the one with the hands.

I've never done a note but DS left a note once when he swallowed his tooth.

[TraceyTrickster]

Tooth fairy leaves $1 or $2 - depends what it has to hand.

DD also writes long missives to TF and asks copious questions.
So Sibille and Gelsey (twin tooth fairies of indeterminate gender, but who have same hand writing) answer them as best they can on a tiny little card.

TF sometimes forgets though as they are unreliable little darlings.

[ExitPursuedByABear]

Guilty here of forgetting sometimes.

[steff13]

I forgot the tooth fairy last night. . Mother of the year here....

I've been there. I'm kind of ashamed to say that I told him the tooth fairy couldn't find his tooth because his bed was so messy. It was piled with clothes, stuffed animals, blankets, etc. She remembered the next night, and after he had cleaned up his room.