Tooth Fairy
I recently wrote about how my daughter at 4 years and 6 months old had a loose tooth. Last night that tooth fell out!
This was a surprise me because although it was loose, I thought I had a much longer time before it would be loose enough to fall out.
I had nothing prepared!
When I was little, my tooth fairy left us silver dollars, a tradition I wanted to continue, but I didn’t have silver dollars just laying around and of course her tooth falls out on a Sunday night with no prospects of getting any!
How much money do you leave for the tooth, especially the first?
We decided on ten dollars for the first tooth, so my husband had to go out and break a $20.00.
How much do you leave for all the other teeth that are going to fall out?
Do you keep the teeth that fall out? It seems gross to keep teeth that fell out but since we had a tooth box that the kids got when they were first born, I decided to keep that first tooth in the box and date it. After all as a teenager I kept a wisdom tooth I had pulled in my purse to gross people out with, so maybe she would like to do the same in the future.
This was all new territory for us as parents, and now we have a very happy girl walking around with a fist full of dollar bills and is every bit as cute as she was yesterday with one less tiny tooth.
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August 6th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
Oh my. I just brought my 3 anklebiters to the dentist, and my 4 year old has 2 loose teeth as well. I asked the hygenist if she was a little young for that, and she said no. So here I am, preparing for the beginning of another stage in their big little lives- the tooth fairy!
I have no idea how much to give. I suppose I should have some cash on hand, just in case it happens TODAY!
August 6th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
Wow! $10 for a tooth! That’s some inflation!I was thinking a dollar, maybe two.
August 7th, 2007 at 12:19 am
Shrug. My oldest is nearly 5 and still has all his teeth. No loose ones at all. I haven’t even thought about what to do when he starts losing them.
August 13th, 2007 at 8:31 am
[...] Since we have had many tooth related talks in our house lately we are more aware of brushing our teeth well and trying to relay that to our children. Of course my children are too young to brush their teeth by themselves just yet, but even I have a hard time remembering just how long I have been brushing my teeth. Are you supposed to brush for two minutes? One minute? My electric toothbrush has an automatic turnoff and now here is sort of the same idea to get kids brushing. [...]