Going rate for the "Tooth Fairy"!!

[batey]

......So, what is it?? Dd1 starting Y1 soon and we'll be heading down the wobbly tooth road! Breaks my heart in a way, as I remeber every one of her teeth breaking through, all the tears,hot cheeks, sleepless nights etc!!!Anyway, how much do you leave?

P.S. The tooth fairy will be treated in a lighthearted way in our house, don't want to get into the tooth fairy/father Christmas debate again!?

I'm sure I saw a news report recently that used donated milk teeth to track exposure to chemicals in pregnancy. I'm not sure exactly what chemicals though. Maybe Mumsnet could send them a large boxful
Just found the link
But you have to do delete the > at the end of the address to make it work because it's too long and breaks.
We don't have tooth fairies yet as ds just cut his first two teeth on Friday.

Just to add weight to the late/late theory - ds1 didn't cut his first tooth til he was almost 1 yr old. Just lost his bottom two around his 6th birthday, which is quite late compared to some here.

I remember finding all mine and my brother's baby teeth in a little box in my Mum's jewellery box and thinking "yeeeuuucccchhh!!" As far as I was concerned it was liking keeping bits of dead body and I would never, ever do something so gross.

So of course the 4 teeth that ds1 has lost are....
in a little box in my jewellery box

50p cos its supposed to be "silver"

£1 per tooth in our house but that is with a 9 and 11 year old. They got nowhere near that when they were 5 or 6, it was more like 50p

My dd (nearly 7) lost her first tooth recently. It was loose and she tried to get the lid off an Anwayup Cup with her teeth - the loose one fell out! Anyway, she got 50p for her tooth. I put it in an envelope marked "To the Tooth Fairy" and left it under her pillow. It made the tooth easy to find in the night!

Ds had no teeth until 14 months so I'm waiting to see if he is late losing them as well.

Quick question, how long between milk tooth falling out and new tooth appearing?

In my dd's case, she's recently lost her first two, a few weeks. Sometimes they come through much quicker though.

I'm going to be a killjoy on this thread and come out to say that I'm not doing the whole fairy thing at all with dd! When I was little I was in my own little dreamworld and I ardously believed in fairies and all things magical. I would make little cakes for them and clothes out of rose petals. I would write tiny letters for them which my sister would answer. Then one day my mother told me that Father Christmas did not exist and neither did fairies, that tore me apart! My dreamworld suddenly shattered before my eyes and I was forced to face reality, a harsh world without magic or fairies to soften the blow. I was heartbroken.
My dd looks like having the same imagination that I did, and so whilst I don't want to force her into reality too soon, I don't want to perpetuate a myth to her either. I would hate the day to come when I had to tell her the truth, and what if she started questioning other things I had told her too? So whilst I am not saying to her that fairies definitely do not exist, I am not going out of my way to pretend that they do either. So any money she gets for her teeth will come from me, the same with Christmas presents.

If she chooses to believe, that's her choice, but I won't be encouraging it I'm afraid. It is a lovely thought though and it is such a shame that they don't exist.

Have to smile at this whole fairy thing (and notice that the PS on the first msg says don't want to get into the debate LOL) but I still believe in magic, even if Santa and the tooth fairy have been proved not to exist by their not turning up if I forget something

I always hope though that this Christmas, Santa will whisper into my DH's ear what I really want for Xmas. Not happened in 10 years of marriage though - perhaps it's time I stopped believing?

Perhaps Santa needs a little helper?

About the late teeth thing, my daughter didn't get her first til she was over a year old and has just lost 2 this summer holidays, at 6 1/4. Gave £1 for first one but fortunately the second was lost on holiday so could give a Euro ;0

I'm sure my daughter knows there is no such thing at all, just likes playing the game.

Does that mean that you regret having your dreamworld Rhubarb?

I remember being mad as hell that my parents had conned me for years about Santa etc. but I still lay it on thick for my sons.

I think it's better to have the magic even if it's only temporary than never to have it at all.

I know this is not a debate but I do not see anything wrong with small children believing in Santa/fairies/easter bunny etc. That is what childhood is about ... they will have a life time of reality soon enough so why not let them be free with their imaginations?
I found out that Santa didn't really exist when I was 8. I woke up on Christmas eve to find the light on in my room and heard rustling ... My heart leapt ... "It's him!" I thought and turned over pretending to be asleep and took a peek. There was my dad stuffing my stocking with goodies. I don't remember feeling devastated or anything, just remembered thinking "Aha ... caught you!!"
I was the type of child that truly believed that toys woke up when you were asleep or not in the room (that is why Toy Story is one of my favourite films). I used to pretend to be asleep and hope that my Teddy bear would be tricked and start moving!
I still, deep down, believe in that sort of stuff ... or perhaps I wish that fairies and Santa did exist ... nothing wrong in nice things like that when all you ever see in the papers is war and death ...
Of course the downside of them believing everything like that is that my DS (nearly 4) has kept me awake the last two nights as he is convinced the 'Froggy Monster' (no idea where that came from) is in his room .... so I am sleep deprived ....
Anyway ... didn't mean to bang on ... but just wanted to be a part of the conversation
PS ... remember in our day when the tooth fairy only brought us 5p or 10p??

Ghosty I could have written your post - right up to still believing and being convinced toys wake up.

Ghosty, my tooth fairy brought me a silver sixpence, afraid I lost my teeth before decimalisation!

CAM - I got silver sixpences too!!!
Going rate in our house is £1 a tooth. Inflation??

Just wait till we have to work out how many Euros the fairy will leave!!!!