to think a wobbly tooth is for wobbling!

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my very nearly 6 year old has her first wobbly teeth (two bottom ones at once) and her dad and then his grandma said stop wobbling it.AIBU to say wobble all she wants to until they're out? surely that's all the fun at least I'm not reaching for the cotton like my mum used to

Am I not allowed to use cotton any more then?

I have recently been reprimanded by our dentist as I didn't encourage DS2 to wobble his teeth enough (I did as much as I could but he doesn't like wobbling teeth!) and he had to have a couple of fragments extracted before he could have his brace fitted! DH used to tell DCs to stop wobbling them until the dentist started saying they should!

Wobbling is fine, twisting is bad! I don't know why twisting is bad but it was in an episode of Charlie & Lola so it must be true.

We do a £2 coin per tooth. They're much fancier than £1 coins so more special.

But we also do a toy (£20-£30) for the first tooth.

I didn't mean to!

It was The Guilt. It got me.

My poor DS1 had bashed his front teeth and had so much pain and trouble with them. Several abscesses (and he was so good about them even though it would have been agony) and eventually the dentist accepted one of his front teeth had to be pulled out.

It was his first tooth to come out and the whole thing was so distressing for him. The needles and the pulling of the tooth and then the blood after. His wee face was all crumpled up and he was sobbing so much.

So The Guilt made me say, "Lets go to Toys R Us and you can choose what you want."

I know.

I'm so weak.

So then I had to do the same with my DS2.

thank you! this thread reminded me I am on tooth fairy duty tonight ..... just had to borrow £1 from DD's savings box to pop under her pillow

YABU!
There are very few things in this world that make me squeamish, but seeing a child idly pushing a wobbler on a thread back and forth with their tongue turns my insides to mush and makes me run a mile.

Wobble all the way :-) even the school dinner ladies used to wobble teeth for you if you let them.

My bottom 2 and a back 1 refused to come out so dentist pulled them at the same time. My parents also felt The Guilt so bought me 5 of my favourite toys at the time so £25 + standard £1 per tooth from the tooth fairy for those 3 teeth :-)

I hate hate hate seeing wobbly teeth. Yuk. But DD2 is welcome to wobble away as much as she likes once I don't have to see.

Going rate here is NZ$2 and a book (the book was DH's idea because he's a big softie, but I quite like it now). DD1 was very unimpressed last week when she got her babysitter (dental student ) to help her pull a wobbly tooth, and the tooth fairy only managed $1 she was lucky the slightly tipsy fairy was able to find anything at midnight

Adult teeth sometimes aren't ready to fill the gap even if the baby ones fall out on his own. Looking at DSs mouth which has been gappy since Christmas

My son had two adult teeth come through front bottom before his baby teeth were even wobbly. So for a long time had 'extra' teeth-was weird!
Then they were wobbly for ages.
When they finally fell out they adult ones just moved forward.

I was quite looking forward to seeing him all gappy.

Our tooth fairy often misses the first or second night, it depends on how busy she is. Last time DD1 requested £100 or a makeup set. The letter back pointed out that the fairy couldn't carry £100 and she didn't keep make-up in stock. She got £2!