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Emergency: Can tooth fairy leave child money AND her tooth??

hgrogershgrogers
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My daughter just lost her first tooth today and she is so excited!  She has carried around the tooth all day & shown it to everyone with such pride. She is ecstatic for the tooth fairy to come, but when it came time for her to put her tooth under the pillow for the tooth fairy to take in exchange for her gift, she asked if we can ask the tooth fairy to leave her tooth along with the gift since she was so sad to get rid of the beloved tooth.

Dh & I always though that the tooth fairy tradition was that you leave the tooth in exchange for money/gift - a quid pro quo. But we also don't want her to be upset about the tooth. On the other hand, we don't want to start a pattern of her keeping every baby tooth. we thought that as the " Tooth Fairy" we would get to keep them all and give them to her someday when we tell her we were the tooth fairy. we also don't want to start this as a tradition and then have our two younger daughters sort of automatically follow this (as they always emulate their older sister)

 

We also don't want her to cause a revolt among her friends when she tells them that the Tooth Fairy let her keep her tooth...

 

She is already asleep with tooth under her pillow right now so we need to decide what to do in next two hours - please help!! we are going to give her the cash - so do we take the tooth or leave it? we honestly think she'll forget about the tooth once she sees the cash, but you can never be sure!

 

 

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Re: Emergency: Can tooth fairy leave child money AND her tooth??

  • Littlejen22Littlejen22 member
    The tooth fairy will do whatever you want her too:)
    Jen - Mom to two December 12 babies Nathaniel 12/12/06 and Addison 12/12/08
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  • Angela814Angela814 member
    DD1 wrote the tooth fairy a note asking if she could please keep her tooth. The fairy left her the money and the tooth.
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  • MesmrEweMesmrEwe member
    The tooth fairy leaves the tooth at our house!!!  DD's cousins just think it's the "Minnesota Fairy" that does things differently up here LOL...
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  • neverblushedneverblushed member
    Angela814 said:
    DD1 wrote the tooth fairy a note asking if she could please keep her tooth. The fairy left her the money and the tooth.

    The tooth fairy has done this at our house as well.  We also had one sad situation where a tooth was dropped on the carpet between the dining room and the bedroom and NO ONE, not even the parents could find that little sucker.  My DD wrote a note explaining the situation, and the tooth fairy still left her the money!

    My DS decided once that he wanted to keep his tooth instead of getting money.  So that time, he didn't put it under his pillow and the tooth fairy stayed away. 
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  • jlw2505jlw2505 member
    I always take the tooth and toss it.  Sorry but I see no reason why you would save baby teeth.  What will you do with them later on.  Honestly though, its your family and do whatever you want to do but know that what you do will become the tradition for your family.
    Jenni Mom to DD#1 - 6-16-06 DD#2 - 3-13-08 
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  • jerseygirl81jerseygirl81 member
    My Tooth Fairy let me keep my first tooth. My mom saved all the rest and gave them to me, which I thought was totally gross. She kept them for 10 years! I still don't know why she did that.
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  • MesmrEweMesmrEwe member

    To answer the ???  on keeping a tooth... 

    Because there are times it has been discussed in other ways...  Just as parents should keep an updated photo, and possibly a copy of their fingerprints, of their kids in the TOTALLY unlikely event that a child disappears or runs away, the same is true if you can keep a DNA sample, even if it seems silly/gross to keep a tooth...  The chances of a parent's worst nightmare are small, it's similar to having a fire extinguisher on hand "just in case"...

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