DS has his first wobbly tooth

[Fattymumma]

and he reaaly freaked out about it.

i have never really mentioned the tooth fairy or anything like that as A) it wouldn't really sink in and B) because it just didnt even occur to me that he was old enought o have wobbly teeth.

so when he came down this morning telling me that he was "gonna die" all traumatised and hysterical, because he was "falling apart" he just couldn't understand that it was ok and that it was normal.

My attempts to calm him down by saying that its ok, your teeth are just baby teeth " no im not a baby im a big boy" they wil all fall out " but then i can't eat anything" - more tears, and you will have nice new teeth grow instead " i dont want new teeth i like my teeth"

i then caughthim with a pritstick attempting to glue it back.

if i am honest i found the whole scene quite funny in a cute kind of way. its so rare to have the chance to say " its ok, thats normal"

i think we will have ot have a tooth power ranger though...when i said the tooth fairy will come he said " no not a fairy, fairy is girls"

my ds1 almost 13 still hates wobbly teeth...he never touches them...never been one to 'help'them come out!!!

ohhh fattymumma im in the same situation as you see here

he is really freacked out by it how old is your ds??

he is 6 redbull, Snap its his bottom tooth as well.

he let me look at it and it really is very wobbly.
someone suggested a game where you have to pull the teeth out and if you pull the wrong one the mouth shuts...i will have a look in Wollies today but i wont hold my breath as he isn't very good with games.

i am hoping that once its out and he realises that he isn't dead and nothing bad has happened he will be a bit happier about it

one way we are trying with ds is he hates things that are babyish so we have told him he is growing a big boy now so he doesnt need his baby teeth then his big boys teeth will come when baby teeth have gone ikywim!!

thats what i am trying now.

he is still not quite sure. he keeps asking me if he has to grow big boy arms or big boy legs.

trouble is, i think he is the first in his class to loose a tooth so i can't even say ooh xxx has had a tooth fall out too.

i know with things like ASD and dyspraxia...tehre is something about kids seeing haircuts/nails being cut/teeth falling out....as more than they are....ie cutting nails being like cutting their fingers....maybe due to sensory feeling...as when cut nails...they feel it in finger more than usual.

teeth...my thinking is everything feels worse and bigger in mouth- so if you bite tounge- feels awfully big- so to them maybe the looseness feels awful too.

and haircuts .my ds1 hates anyone touching his neck....and can tolerate very little fussing with his hair! So when being cut she cannot keep going over same area with combe/scissors...he starts saying "you've done that bit alraedy!"

Hi fattiemuma, is the tooth still in place? My sons first tooth fell out yesterday and it had been wobbly a tiny bit for a couple of months and then this last couple of days totally wobbly! My ds has sn as well but i think he didnt take it as bad as i thought, but that could be down to a reading book at school he done a while back called The Wobbly tooth, because i havent really talked about wobbly teeth either. Its like one minute theyre our babies then the next minute theyre baby teeths falling out!

it came out today, in the middle of a play therapy session.

he was actually really proud of it and he didn't even feel it come out, it just fell in his hand.

he asked me if we could buy sweeties tomorrow (he doesn't really eat sweets) and when i asked why he said " because i want more of my teeth to drop off"

so the only problem i have now is... what is the going rate for the tooth fairy?

I asked this question funny enough only recently, it used to be 50p when I was a kiddie, seems to have risen to a good few pounds now.

Ds lost his first tooth a couple of weeks ago, after many a night complaining that his tooth was moving. He seemed to be really anxious about the tooth fairy/stranger coming in the night when he was asleep. It took him a good few nights to get used to the idea, and finally one night he bravely put his tooth under the pillow to reap his rewards the next day. Incidentally he's got this same apprehension about Father Xmas coming into the house as well.

we give £1....and if its an extra-specially-white-beautifully-perfectly-brushed-and-kept-clean-tooth...they get a few extra 'brand new shiney coins"

last month ds3 had a tooth fall out...and i managed to drop it in the kitchen....it rooled under the washing machine!!!!He then trots out asking for his tooth to put raedy for tooth fairy!!! So i hunted upstairs for one of the many all my ds's have had come out (yes...the toothfairy let me keep them all!)....so i found a similar sized one and he put that by his pillow!

then a few years back...i discovered at 1am to my horror that we had no money in the house to put from the toothfairy.... so there i was crawling round looking in toyboxes etc...under chairs...inside settee cushions....for odd coins...!

BTW...ds3 reckons some children get £2 for every tooth...my reply...."that's good"!!!!!

got away with it... as he is still not too 'money aware'...and is fooled by a handful of sparkly new coins...even if they only ad up to £1.10!!!!

It didnt take too long to fall out then. Im glad your ds took it well