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?

$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 :)

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!).

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.

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.

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!)

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.

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.

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.

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 .

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.....)

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.

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!

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.

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!