One Flakey Fairy

This was cute.

I remember the tooth fairy forgetting when I was little. My mom just said, "well you woke up early. Maybe you're just one of the last stops she hasn't made yet."
Sure enough, the dollar was there after I took my first bathroom visit and brushed me teeth.

I can name several. My friends at school stopped trusting their parents to tell them the truth when they found out, my parents stopped believing their parents were telling them the truth about anything when they realized their parents were lying, it creates lack of trust that your parents will be honest with you. Plus as I have said before we teach our children not to lie and then we lie. How does that make sense? How is it fair to punish our children for lying if we lie to them? I thinks it's a bad idea all around to lie to your kids. They need to know they can trust you to always be honest.

thanks for the giggles!

I know I've forgotten a time or two, but thankfully (or maybe not so thankfully) my daugther knows that the tooth fairy is me so she just gets upset at me. I've gotten to the point where I don't care if she's asleep or not, so long as she gets her money.

RebeccaG: I have sooooooooooooooooooo done that! hee hee! And the floor thing, did that too!!! Both of these were times when my hubby was going to "take care" of playing tooth fairy. Needless to say, he no longer plays tooth fairy or santa or easter bunny!! hee hee! (I think he set me up!!! :)

My son sleeps like a log, so I always had him put the tooth in an envelope, and I would exchange the envelope under the pillow for one with the dollar. The one time I forgot (fell asleep at like 9), and had to face the pitiful sad child, I was able to pull a switch, I send him out for a minute, and "found" the envelope on the floor under the bed. I told him "Look, here it is, she must have dropped it! I bet the dog startled her, and she forgot the tooth too." Worked like a charm.

RebeccaG: I have sooooooooooooooooooo done that! hee hee! And the floor thing, did that too!!! Both of these were times when my hubby was going to "take care" of playing tooth fairy. Needless to say, he no longer plays tooth fairy or santa or easter bunny!! hee hee! (I think he set me up!!! :)

Wonderful!

This is a great story. I forgot once too. We put it back under the pillow for the next night and she showed up. By now she knows better but at 14, my daughter is still losing teeth and she always asks me " how much do ya think i can get for this tooth" ( Ha!! like i'm just gonna give her money.) But we play the game anyway and I usually give her a couple dollars just to have. Its just for fun and i kinda miss her being little.

I know of no child who was seriously messed up from being "lied to" about Santa and the tooth fairy. Kids become messed up adults because of all of the OTHER things we do to try to protect them.

Awe....I love it!

aww how adorable. :)

been there done that. what got me was when my daughters best friend got a barbie from the tooth fairy. so of course she expected a barbie for her next tooth. my son got a hot wheel. we had some exspensive teeth.

This is why my parents had a strict no lying policy. If you don't lie to your child and teach them the tooth fairy, the easter bunny, santa claus, and whatever other fictional characters are out there than you don't have to worry. And it doesn't make any of those occasions less special. Christmas was still my favorite time of year even though there was no santa. I still got a dollar for loosing my tooth even though there was no tooth fairy. We still did an egg hunt even though there was no easter bunny. I like how people say that it's just letting your kids "use their imagination" when your the one telling them that story. I thought using your imagination was making up your own story. But instead it's kids using their parents imagination. I always found that ironic.

I did this one time also and when my son was in the bathroom in the morning I stuck an envelope with some money in it in his toy chest with a note that read "Couldn't find the tooth, your room is a mess, leave it on the kitchen counter and I will pick it up later!" The little monkey fell for it AND he cleaned his room!!! LOL!

My oldest daughter told my middle daughter this after it happened to her, "The tooth fairy likes to come when you are at school." Glad to know I'm not the only one. :)

Jocye did you hear your statement "For all of you who think you shouldn't lie to your child about the tooth fairy, shame on you: since when is it a virtue to lie? We teach our children not to lie and yet we lie to them how does that make sense. And they don't NEED to believe in all these fictional characters. Like I said before I find it ironic how people say it's "letting them use their imagination" when it's the parents lying to them. I would call that the parents imagination not the kid. Kids don't need to be lied to to remain a kid. I wasn't lied to and my childhood was very happy. I still loved every occasion just as much as the other children. Even losing my tooth because our parents gave us money for it. Lying to your child doesn't make their childhood better it just makes them doubt you ever tell the truth when they find out you lied to them about all those different "people". It breaks the trust barrier of your child. They begin to wonder what else you have lied about. Which is why my parents had the no lie policy. They wanted us to know that no matter what good or bad they'd tell us the truth. That way we would always respect them and trust them. And yes both my parents were lied to as children about these things and they know how horrible they felt when they found out their parents lied and they never wanted us to go through that.

I forgot once! Embarassing Mom moment!! I had hubby quickly run up and place a dollar under the bed as if it had fallen on the floor during the night, and the tooth fairy must have dropped the tooth.

Since then, I have a supply of dollar coins on hand and put one by my sink whenever a they lose a tooth. It reminds me to put on my wings as I'm getting ready for bed.

Well my children wont/don't go to preschool. And as a child in kindergarten I never felt sad not to believe in santa. I never felt left out. My friends didn't alienate me or anything we had fun. They knew I didn't believe and I knew they did. We never picked on each other for it though. The most that was ever said was once one of them said "if you don't believe you won't get any toys from him" and I said "that's fine I get plenty from my parents" (at that time I thought that we got tons but I found out later that we didn't really because there were five of us and mom and dad didn't have tons to spend. But they made it so fun and we each got one "big" toy so we thought we got tons. Plus those stocking with all the candys and dollar tree toys and stuff. We had fun.). We still celebrated chirstmas so I still had tons of fun with my classmates. Making ornaments and christmas presents. It was fun. Christmas was my favorite time of year.

Excellent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Will keep this in mind in the years to come as my kids start losing their teeth! Funny! Great Blog!

I forgot, too. Two days in a row. It was brutal! I also told my daughter that the tooth fairy must have been really busy the past couple of nights, but he (we have to refer to Roy, the tooth fairy from The Santa Clause) would probably make a special trip while she was at school. It worked. I had to run like crazy and use some special ninja skills to get a dollar under her pillow when we got home from work/school without her catching on, but it was successful!