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A big fat don't

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hunkermunker · 27/10/2008 21:27

Don't tell your 4.6yo that one day his teeth will get wobbly and fall out to make way for his new big teeth.

Just don't.

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PottyCock · 27/10/2008 21:28
Hmm
twoluvlykids · 27/10/2008 21:28

did he pull them all out?

PottyCock · 27/10/2008 21:28

i'm sensing a story here...

twoluvlykids · 27/10/2008 21:28

have you got to hide the pliers?

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hunkermunker · 27/10/2008 21:32

He looked terrified, then got VERY upset and held his mouth till I promised him his teeth weren't going to fall out.

So I did. And yet they are going to fall out, so I lied! [wail]

I am a fuckwit. As if he was ever going to say "Oh, fab, Mummy! What, all of them! Great!" fgs.

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ledodgy · 27/10/2008 21:35

Have you told him about the tooth fairy? That should cheer him up!

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hunkermunker · 27/10/2008 21:38

I can't bring myself to tell him a small flying lady with wings will come into his bedroom while he's asleep and take the teeth that he doesn't want to fall out in the first place...!

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twoluvlykids · 27/10/2008 21:42

tell him about the shiny money she leaves

PottyCock · 27/10/2008 21:43

yup. that'll cheer him up

PsychoAxeMurdererMum · 27/10/2008 21:51

oh dear.

do you think he will be bribed and made happier with the thought of shiny pennies???

phdlife · 27/10/2008 21:51

also maybe stress, they don't all go at once? I remember having some awful nightmares about that when I was small.

Plonker · 27/10/2008 22:08

Ahh God Love him!!

My dd2 (5) has just lost her two bottom teeth ...she was sooooooo excited

If i were you I would just leave it for now and then make a big thing about it when friends get wobbly teeth - say how Grown Up they're getting, and how lucky they are to be getting a visit from the tooth fairy ...

Shiny pennies are always a bonus

DeathByMonkey · 28/10/2008 11:58

Sorry, don't want to make light of your son's anxiety but pmsl at 'small flying lady' coming and making off with his teeth!

My 6yo son's top front one is wobbly but I'm much more excited than he is, for some reason. I keep asking to check it and he backs away looking dubious going "Muuuum, gerroff!"

stealthsquiggle · 28/10/2008 12:03

Have none of his friends lost teeth yet? The reality of 'big teeth' sank in gradually for DS as lots of his classmates have already lost some of theirs (one of DS's was wobbly but now, strangely, isn't )

I agree he probably needs to be happier about the concept of teeth being replaced (as PhD says, one at a time ) before you introduce the small flying lady into the equation.

MmeTussaudsChmberOfChocHobnobs · 28/10/2008 12:07

Ah, the poor wee soul. He still has a bit of time to get used to the idea.

In Germany losing a tooth is a bit exciting thing, as they normally go to school at 6yo. They call the DCs in their last year of kindergarten the Wackelzahlkinder (wobbly teeth childrnen) and they all cannot wait to lose their first tooth.

DDs started to wobble yesterday, she is very excited.

shootfromthehip · 28/10/2008 12:13

I viewed loosing teeth with the same determination I had to get rid of my virginity: I couldn't wait to get it over with and then wondered what all the fuss was about. Probably don't want to explain that to him either though!!!

shootfromthehip · 28/10/2008 12:16

Just read that back, obviously I lost the teeth first

tiktok · 28/10/2008 12:33

Reminds me of when I told ds that a little friend of his at playgroup had broken her nose in an accident....he thought her nose had broken off.

Tortington · 28/10/2008 12:35

i remember being ver ver frightened at the hole i had dug re the tooth fairy, when my boys started counting how many teeth they had and were hatching plans to take them out @50p per tooth they would be rich!

Upwind · 28/10/2008 12:46

love this thread

I lost my first tooth on the morning of my first communion. My mother made me put it back in my mouth and try to keep it in place for the photos

phdlife · 28/10/2008 20:10

I lost my first tooth in a piece of steak.

2nd one while mum was washing my face in the bath; no one noticed and it went down the drain.

Luckily in California the tooth fairy is muuuuch more relaxed about whether she actually gets the tooth, man

TheDuchessOfNorksDied · 28/10/2008 20:35

hunker - I should drop the subject for now! He'll get the picture from his friends. Do you think he made the connection that 'big' teeth means just like mummy's - or did he imagine he'd grow HUGE tyranosaurus-style fangs?

DD1 chipped a tooth today. Was it the wobbly lower right 2nd?, no. Was it any of the teeth that will fall out in the next 2 or 3 years?, no. It was, naturally, her brand spanking new front top.

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hunkermunker · 28/10/2008 20:37

PMSL at the nose breaking off (owwww!) and the mercenary boys with their somewhat shortsighted get not very rich quick scheme!

I'm not mentioning it again - I shall just have to hope he doesn't have nightmares. We're going to see Peter Pan at Christmas, so I'll have to see how he takes to Tinkerbell before I talk of the small flying lady. Pennies though, shiny pennies - he likes those. That could swing it!

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SmugColditz · 28/10/2008 20:38

Ds1 (5.5) has accepted stoicly that teeth fll out and the tooth fairy comes, but he isn't really taken in by the romance of this idea, and has insisted we put the tooth under my pillow so the tooth fairy doesn't come in his bedroom.

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hunkermunker · 28/10/2008 20:38

Ohhhh, Duchess!!! Much sympathy and empathy Poor thing - is she OK? Are you OK? I lost both my front teeth in a playground incident [wince] and it's the first thing I say if the boys are mucking about "Mind your teeth!".

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