My son lost his first tooth today and caught me by surprise. I asked him how much money he thought the tooth fairy would leave him and he said 2 gold coins (There is a YoGabbaGabba episode about the tooth fairy and that is what he gets.) I happen to have a few Gold dollar coins so I left those but I'm not sure if I could keep that up (I mean there are 20 baby teeth) or only do that for the first tooth and then change it later. What do you do?
Re: Tooth fairy going rate
Big Bro 7/14/13
Little Bro 2/6/17
I am SO excited because my youngest kid, who is 12, lost his FINAL baby tooth this summer. FWIW, he has known that the tooth fairy is me for a while now, but I told him I would still allow him to extort a dollar from me every time he lost a tooth.
Don't get me wrong, I was a pretty good tooth fairy when he was 5ish. But of all the imaginary creatures I've had to pretend to be, the Tooth Fairy is the one I find to be the hardest. I can't tell you how many times I've forgotten to do her job over the years. Ugh. I finally just told my youngest to stop putting the tooth under the pillow and just ask for his dollar. I couldn't take it anymore. I'd rather be Mrs. Claus any day than the fairy. I'm a really good Mrs. Claus. When I get those Santa presents under the tree, you would SWEAR that Santa was real. The tooth fairy just stresses me out.