Help needed - tooth fairy

There's no such thing as a Giant Peach, a Magic Finger, a Saucepan Man, a Tiger who was tame enough to come to tea, a Gangsta Granny either.

Well, there might be a Gangsta Granny

My mum was being tooth fairy when my nieces were staying, she said she completed the transaction just fine, then stumbled on my old dolls' house when she was leaving the bedroom, ended up crashing around and woke them both up. She dropped the tooth somewhere couldn't find it in the dark. They still remember that 40+ years on.

I was camping with my gc when the tooth came out. Great excitement because the tooth fairy would come that night. Except I had no change whatsoever on me. So I own up to telling her another lie and that the tooth fairy made a list each day of people she would have to visit so she could go to the ATM to get the money out. As her tooth had come out at 6.30 she had missed the list today and would probably be on to morrows list. Understood and peace.

A woman I used to know told my dd at only five that there was no FC. I got my own back by telling dd that X had probably been so naughty when she was little that FC never came, so no wonder she didn’t believe in him. Should add that X had form for yelling/effing and blinding in public, as dd had witnessed, which certainly helped - it worked like a charm.

Having loved all the FC excitement as a child, I would have hated for it to be denied to my own children. And I must say it never occurred to me when older that my folks had ‘lied’ to me over FC or the tooth fairy. I was well aware that it was rather a case of not denying me that little bit of young-childhood magic and excitement.

Our boys still had presents left at the end of their beds but they knew they were from family, friends and us. I don't think they feel they have missed out at all. Again they put lost teeth under their pillow and got a coin but they were never told it was a fairy who delivered it. They knew it was us.

Did they believe that a baby who was the son of God was born in a stable in the middle of winter, shepherds were tending their flocks on the hillsides in the deep midwinter, in angels and kings?

I’m not even going there. Politics is bad enough, but religion? No way.

As a Humanist I say - Each to their own.

If it is lost then of course the Tooth Fairy took it to make a beautiful necklace. The tooth fairy took all of our childrens teeth from under their pillows to make necklaces.

Ooh necklaces made out of children's teeth...I think you've invented another Horror franchise

You would be surprised how many children know the truth and keep up the pretending to keep the magic alive for their parents x

V3RA - "what's it got to do with you?" - thanks for remembering and posting that!

Callistemon we do celebrate the birth of Jesus at Christmas - of God coming to earth in human form.The children knew when they were young that pictures on Christmas cards were a sanitised version of what likely happened but that it represented the essence of God incarnate and that was what we were celebrating.

That is fine; so do my DGC momb but many would dismiss that as another fairy story.

I used to write tiny little letters from the tooth fairies and sign each one with fairy names - they loved getting them. All three have survived the trauma of finding out there’s no tooth fairy (or Santa or the Easter bunny) and grown into well adjusted adults and teenager.