Tooth Fairy

[MomToOne]

DD told me that a kid in her class get $20 for EVERY tooth he looses and she said his family must have a personal tooth fairy!!

I told my daughter that there are actually a lot of different tooth fairies - you get stuck with the one assigned to your "route", whoever they are. And they get to decide what to bring, so some bring toys, some bring art supplies (don't know what that parent in my kid's class was thinking!), some bring lots of money, some bring only a bit of money because they are more practical. Guess we got one of those cheap ones, because ours leaves $2 per tooth and that's it.

 

[monorailsilver]

The tooth fairy has always left a $1 sack-a-ja-way-ah (we-ah).

Actually when my oldest lost her first tooth it was probably a dollar but that was 4 years ago & I really don't recall. My ds is 6 & he has 2 wigglys but he won't wiggle them.

From now on they all get one gold coin.

 

[tmarquez]

The tooth fairy brings 1 gold dollar coin for each year (5 coins if you are 5 years old, etc.) and some sort of dental care item (like a new toothbrush, cool floss, etc.).

 

[kaywoody]

The tooth fairy at our house leaves a gold dollar and whatever change happens to be in the TF's purse! Sadly, occasionally a lost tooth has snuck up on the Tooth Fairy who didn't have a gold dollar on hand, so she had to wait until DD goes to sleep, raid her piggy bank for gold dollars, replace it with a regular bill, and then put it in the ziplock bag with the other change. I can tell you that the tooth fairy feels very bad when this has happened, and now has stocked up with several gold dollars- just in case! And she has now replaced the gold dollars back in the pig!

 

[PinkRhombus]

$5 first tooth lost
$1 each addl tooth

 

[pilesoflaundry]

$1 usually. If they yank it out too early they only get .50

 

[sparkyboy]

$5 for first tooth plus new tooth brush
$1.00 for others--usually 4 quarters from Hawaii or Florida
Also, the tooth fairy makes a telephone call to check up on each child (at least for the first and second tooth)

 

[GOOFY4DONALD]

The tooth fairy leaves a dollar around here.

Hopefully your tooth fairy won't forget and fall asleep, and then the tooth fairy has to sneak into the room and hide the dollar on the floor or under a toy or something - "Hey Look! There it is! It must have fallen down!"

This just happened at my ouse..actually the last 3 times. That darn tooth fairy

 

[mjkacmom]

Our TF gives $20 for the first tooth ONLY because my oldest lost her tooth at 9 pm, and we only had twenties! After that, $1.

 

[Tiger926]

My kid read a Junie B. Jones book and the theory in the book is that the Tooth Fairy recycles teeth and gives them to babies that need them, since Junie lost her first tooth the same day her baby brother Ollie got his first one. Kind of an "Eeew!" theory, but my DS bought it!

The Tooth Fairy doesn't take teeth in our house - neither did she for my sister and I. We are scrapbookers, so we are keeping our teeth (they sit in a silver tooth fairy box).

Not sure why people ever came up with the idea that teeth had to "go" someplace? Kids like keeping their teeth around here.

Tiger

 

[MomToOne]

Our TF gives $20 for the first tooth ONLY because my oldest lost her tooth at 9 pm, and we only had twenties! After that, $1.

At our house, if you lose your tooth in the evening or even late afternoon, this statement is usually heard: "it's probably too late for the tooth fairy to get you on their schedule for tonight and you'll have to wait until tomorrow".

 

[Tiger926]

At our house, if you lose your tooth in the evening or even late afternoon, this statement is usually heard: "it's probably too late for the tooth fairy to get you on their schedule for tonight and you'll have to wait until tomorrow".

Yup, or you can say that sometimes the Tooth Fairy has to miss a house as she got held up, so she will for sure be back tomorrow.

It's all about setting up reasonable expectations beforehand, and then kids are prepared for all scenarios!

Tiger

 

[pilesoflaundry]

At our house, if you lose your tooth in the evening or even late afternoon, this statement is usually heard: "it's probably too late for the tooth fairy to get you on their schedule for tonight and you'll have to wait until tomorrow".

My tooth fairy handed out an IOU hand written in that case The next night she came back with enough money for all.

 

[TxRabbit]

In our house, every tooth gets something different...

First tooth got one each of these coins, dollar, quarter, nickle, dime, penny. (You got to get expectations low...)

Second tooth got a $2 bill. (This was interesting because DS had never seen one before...)

Third tooth got 3 half dollars. (This was new too, but DS had heard of them, but he had been told that they were big kid money by his teacher because they didn't have to worry about 50 cent pieces in their money segment in math.)

Fourth tooth was lost AT WDW...Thanks to the lovely CMs at BC, Tink took over for the tooth fairy (because Tink is so territorial and all, and won't let the Tooth Fairy into WDW), and Tink left a card from Goofy who totally understood about missing teeth, a photograph signed by Goofy, Mickey, etc., and a Goofy pin for PP&P.

I was informed that Tink was much cooler than DS' tooth fairy...

I can't quite recall what happened for teeth five through eight...but if I remember right, Five got a five dollar bill and Eight got Eight different State quarters. Somewhere along the line here, DS was told by a classmate that their parent's were their tooth fairy. DS asked us if we were his too. We admitted we were, and was he disappointed to learn that? We didn't care that he knew now, we thought it was fun and we would keep doing it. DS was fine (he has never believed in Santa, he asked us about it when he was 3 and we told him the truth...but we still "DO" Santa), he was happy to hear that knowledge didn't make the game obsolete.

We're at that break now...not sure WHAT we are going to do when we start losing again.

 

[naomi78155]

OP here,

Great responses. There are a lot of creative tooth fairies out there. I haven't decided yet, but I did order a cute pirate with a tooth treasure chest to put the loose tooth in.

 

[ShannonMB]

Our tooth fairy leaves $5 per tooth, and she takes them. DD usually gets to sleep in our room on the night the tooth fairy is coming, because even though she knows the tooth fairy is a nice, friendly fairy, it creeps DD out that some *fairy* is coming in her room and putting something under her pillow while she's sleeping. Gotta say I can't blame her there! She's fine with Santa and the Easter bunny coming in the house, I guess because they don't go in her room.

 

[shannon1119]

It was always $1 a tooth...unless the tooth fairy fell asleep and then she felt guilty so they got extra. The kids used to hope she 'fell asleep' so they'd get more...sigh

 

[design_mom]

$2 for the first tooth here... and $1 for the rest. We have neighbors whose tooth fairy gives $20 per tooth, too.

 

[weluvjasmine]

My 4 yr dd lost her first tooth about a month ago, the tooth fairy left $20. I few it as a rite of passage and the first lost tooth is pretty special (and between 3 of us we only had a $20 bill). Around Easter, she lost her second tooth and the tooth fairy left $2.

 

[mrs.sammich]

I'm the excited one in our house when the tooth fairy visits. My son was a bit bummed that she just left money. He was the first of all his friends and cousins to have a visit, so there were no expectations, but 'just money??' She left a five for the first tooth and a gold dollar for the second. I think she's 'the bomb' for leaving the gold coin, but it's lost on that boy... Maybe she'll be more creative at our house if she reads this thread. I'm sending her an email with this link.