Tooth fairy should have days off?

[lilmishap]

Soo my son has announced that the Tooth fairy let him down last night.
I was not aware he had lost a tooth (he has ASD and doesn't always share things that he should) but he assures me he had put it under his pillow.

So I've just told him the tooth fairy doesn't work the Thursday/Friday night as thats when she is overseeing the building of the tooth kingdom (the reason she buys teeth is that they use them to build)

He says thats silly and he thinks she just doesn't like him.....AIBU to have said it was a day off or is there a better excuse I could have used?

Bad weather sometimes prevents the tooth fairy from coming

She/He sometimes goes to have dinner with other magical beings, eg if France teeth are collected by a mouse and she has to train ew mice sometimes.

There is also the problem with cross channel ferries, the mouse can only swim so far, and the fairy has to have a magical booster for her wings, so sometimes children on ferries don't get anything and sometimes they get double.

There is more than one tooth fairy, sometimes they are assigned a particular family or a particular child and sometimes an are, this is why different people get different money for their teeth.

One of my friends had a tooth out at the dentist, in his family teeth were put on a pile of salt on a saucer in the kitchen.

He was 13 and received a note in tiny writing that said, "nice try"

@BridStar

Kid needs to learn not to be so whiny. If he's so immature he's going to do the "oh the tooth fairy doesn't like me" thing then he can't be involved in whimsical games.

I'd also say keep the whimsy to a minimum. Unless you're a skillful storyteller embellishing a tale with weirdness like tooth kingdoms is just going to tell the child it's all a lie, and not a very good one.

Tell her she doesn't come every day and that's that. But if he's going to turn it into a sulk turn don't bother at all. Sulks have consequences.

Not as simple as that, the kid has autism you knob.

Our tooth fairy often hasn’t been able to make it due to weather - her wings can’t get wet in the rain, if it’s too windy she’d be blown off course and I think she’s also prone to heatstroke…

Ours never worked weekends.

@TeenMinusTests

Surely she only comes if the parent has sent the special parent message saying she is needed?

The tooth fairy was often delayed in our house as too many to collect in one night

Yup, I need to text the tooth fairy to let her know there is a tooth here.

DS2 has lost most of his at school, so that usually buys me an extra 24 hours for "tooth fairy to find the tooth"

You sound nice @BridStar

It's useful to have a ready excuse for the tooth fairy and there's lots of good ones here. Not a big fan of the messy room excuse- blames the child not the tooth fairy, and what happens if you forget another time when the rooms not messy?