When To Spill It On The Tooth Fairy

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When To Spill It On The Tooth Fairy

January 21st, 2009 by Mommie

Last night our daughter pulled yet another tooth out of her mouth. She’d been messing with it for some time, trying to wriggle the little thing from her mouth. But for us, it wasn’t as exciting as her first, or even her second. While we were happy that she pulled it without a huge ordeal, we must not have been impressed enough to remember being the tooth fairy…

I was supposed to remind my husband to put make the cash switcheroo, but I’m lucky if I can remember to turn off the oven, or let the dog out of his crate in the morning. Thus the switch wasn’t made and she awoke to a big surprise… the tooth fairy didn’t come.

So at 6:30 in the morning I hear a crying kid and my husband comes in to let me know I’d forgotten to remind him about it the previous night. I told him to tell her that she has to put it in an envelope or the tooth fairy won’t know what it is. I guess she had put it in a little toy box under her pillow. That seemed to calm her down.

Then the thought came “How long do we keep up the fiasco?” I asked my husband and he didn’t have a clue. I have a suspicion that she knows Santa isn’t real, as she let something slip about Daddy and Santa. I’m wondering if she knows about the tooth fairy too?

Looking around at others opinions, there are those that think it’s mean to tell kids there is a tooth fairy, as that’s lying. There are those that never tell their kids there is no tooth fairy, they just keep up the fiasco. And then there are those that just tell their kids around 7 or 8.

To be honest, I’m under the viewpoint that she can be told, but we’d still give her money for her teeth. Just like if she figured Santa out, she’d still get a Santa gift. The only thing that would worry me is her telling her younger two brothers. My mom loves to tell the story about how I told our next door neighbors children about Santa when I was little, so I’m sure she’ll hear something or other at school.

What are your views? Is there a good age to let them know?

5 Responses

Mrs. Mecomber writes:
January 21st, 2009 at 7:03 pm

I never did any tooth fairy for my kids. Since they didn’t go to public school, they had no idea it existed, lol.

I gave my kitten a big can of tuna, though. I’m spoiling the critters in my old age. lol
Nessa writes:
January 22nd, 2009 at 11:51 am

Thinking about it, I can’t remember telling any of my kids there wasn’t one. They just figured it out at some point but still got the cash. It seems to me that they were all between 6-8 when that happened though if that helps. Most likely someone in class is going to tell her anyway when she goes to school and mentions it. Kids do that and i bet if she doesn’t already know she’ll be wanting to talk about it when she gets home. Goooooood Luck.
nipsy writes:
January 26th, 2009 at 6:53 am

Ha! There were so many times I forgot to leave the money. So I would sneak into their room when they went for breakfast, or the bathroom and I would hide it further in their bed and tell them they must have moved too much in the night!!
1stopmom writes:
January 29th, 2009 at 10:36 am

The tooth fairy has forgotten to come a few times at my house too. Usually I have to send her a quick email to make sure she stops by again. My 9 year old and 6 year old still beleive in the tooth fairy and santa. I am thinking I might be able to go one more year with my 9 year with the whole Santa thing. It gets hard when other kids tell him he is silly to still believe. I like letting them have this little fantasy. My 6 year still believes a blue dot on her forehead when she lies! I think kids will let you know when they are too old.
Maureen writes:
February 6th, 2009 at 2:03 am

We have a little toothfairy pillow that the kids put their tooth in and the toothfairy leaves the money in. So there is no pretending the money came and they didn’t see it. I have been known to insist that they got up too early and the toothfairy came after they got up. The toothfairy also can’t come sometimes for a variety of reasons. We’re absolutely awful about forgetting the toothfairy thing with our fourth child. We spilled the beans earlier with him, partly because he is persistent in asking questions about the toothfairy.