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Dylan's first tooth fell out...

By codemonkey uk (Wed Oct 15, 2008 at 03:38:20 PM EST) (all tags)

Such a life milestone! Not really anything more to say about it. Little boy, 7 years old, gappy smile. Looking forward like mad to seeing him and taking a few photos.

Not sure about the whole "Tooth Fairy" thing. I hate to lie to the children about make-believe stuff, but not playing along with the old myths seems like robbing them of some of the fun of their youth...

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It's easy. by muchagecko (2.00 / 0) #1 Wed Oct 15, 2008 at 04:17:17 PM EST

Kids really like to pretend. So just tell him that everyone pretends that there is a little Tinkerbell fairy that gives kids stuff and takes their teeth.

My kids have always had fun with pretending all the holiday characters (Easter bunny & Santa). Years ago my daughter actually joined in the fun and put gifts under the tree from Santa. It was awesome!

My kids trust me. I never lie to them and I think they need that.

A purpose gives you a reason to wake up every morning.
So a purpose is like a box of powdered donut holes?
Exactly
My Name is Earl

My dad lied to me incessently by nebbish (4.00 / 1) #3 Wed Oct 15, 2008 at 04:37:41 PM EST

He was always doing stuff like calling me into the garden then sighing and telling me I'd just missed a monkey jumping through the trees. It was great! Real fuel for the imagination.

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It's a good thing you aren't an Aspie. by muchagecko (4.00 / 2) #4 Wed Oct 15, 2008 at 04:59:48 PM EST

It seems that my kids need precise accurate details.

I can't even round up or down on the time. My son will always correct me.

A purpose gives you a reason to wake up every morning.
So a purpose is like a box of powdered donut holes?
Exactly
My Name is Earl
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: A reminder if needed by nebbish (4.00 / 1) #5 Wed Oct 15, 2008 at 05:07:08 PM EST

That kids are all different. Maybe doing stuff like my dad did just seemed right with me.
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For at least 5 years by Breaker (4.00 / 1) #15 Wed Oct 15, 2008 at 09:23:01 PM EST

My Dad convinced me that the broken green glass I found in the garden soil was in fact, massively valuable Jade. Probably from the Roman era, so it'd be especially valuable.

Fuck knows how he managed to get us in the car to go shopping without it, and on the rare few occasions I remembered to bring my green treasure with me, "it'd take too long for the jewellers to value it, and we need to get home"

"And, it'll probably be worth more later on. Jade appreciates with time, you know, so the longer we leave it the more money you'll get".

I was at least 14 before I sussed this lie.

My Dad is fucking ace. Read one of the Robert Rankin stories, which is prefaced by an account of when his terminally ill father trolled the local priest into thinking he was an old skool whale hunter with a harpoon and some salty tales behind it. It's not often a son gets to laugh at his own father's funeral, but this one was genius.

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What's the going rate for a tooth nowadays? by nebbish (2.00 / 0) #2 Wed Oct 15, 2008 at 04:34:17 PM EST

I know how you feel, but believing in fairies and stuff is one of the magical things about childhood. It won't affect him adversely, and it's good for the imagination too.

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Mine get a quid by hulver (2.00 / 0) #9 Wed Oct 15, 2008 at 06:21:01 PM EST

I'm always reminded of this.

I've also got a box with all their teeth in it. I can't throw them away. Is that weird? It's even got the IOU in it that D2 wrote when one of her teeth fell out at school and she couldn't find it.

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: Top cartoon :) by nebbish (2.00 / 0) #10 Wed Oct 15, 2008 at 06:24:33 PM EST

My parents probably kept my teeth then lost them
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LO by yankeehack (4.00 / 1) #11 Wed Oct 15, 2008 at 06:35:55 PM EST

Over the summer she lost like 5 teeth in a row within a few months (and she lost two teeth at camp). She pretty much cleaned up then at a $1 each.

Although for the last molar she got $3 - she's just about lost all her teeth at this point.
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You know what is funny? I voted for McCain in 2000 and Obama in 2008. (And let's not forget Edwards in 1998.)
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Haven't you seen the news? by Tonatiuh (4.00 / 1) #24 Fri Oct 17, 2008 at 05:30:21 AM EST

The global teeth market has collapsed, the tooth is at its lowest against the dollar, the dong and the real, it appreciated against the Mexican peso (what doesn't?)

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Wow, First one?? by littlestar (2.00 / 0) #6 Wed Oct 15, 2008 at 05:10:01 PM EST

That's nuts. Or, actually, it's not nuts, my kids are nuts. Popsicle has already lost two teeth (she's five and half) and all four front tops are loose now.

I have never had any issue with the tooth fairy myth (as I have with the Santa one in the past). It's just whimsical frivolity. There is no real deep meaning, it's just playful silliness which is delightful for all. Any fiction is a lie, but clearly there is a place for make believe.

I must say kids expect a lot from the tooth fairy nowadays, or at least mine did (and who knows where she got it, we certainly couldn't figure it out). Popsicle was thinking she was going to get money AND a toy, she was actually UPSET when she only got money for the first tooth. It was a bit ridiculous, and although I thought !!what the hell!!, appreciate what you got kid; I also felt bad. Isn't parenthood insane. Turns rational, logical folks into wieners.

Anyway, we now have it to writing the tooth fairy a letter if you're expecting something different for some reason. And, likewise, the tooth fairy has written Popsicle a note. For me it's a great lesson anyway, as we are working on writing letters and sentences right now anyway, so having Santa and the Tooth Fairy to write to is great for me.

Anyway, good luck, hope it goes well with your first tooth fairy experience.

*twinkle*twinkle*

Dylan is developmentally delayed by codemonkey uk (2.00 / 0) #8 Wed Oct 15, 2008 at 05:24:44 PM EST

In all areas, teething included.

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developer of ... ?
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Mine is six and a month by ucblockhead (2.00 / 0) #16 Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 01:03:08 AM EST

Not so much as a single loose tooth.
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It varies. by Merekat (2.00 / 0) #17 Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 03:08:58 AM EST

I was 14 by the time I lost my last baby tooth.

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Heh by hulver (2.00 / 0) #23 Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 09:12:04 AM EST

I've still got 3 of mine.
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: Yeah, but we all know you are a teenager.... by Tonatiuh (2.00 / 0) #25 Fri Oct 17, 2008 at 05:32:48 AM EST

... running a website from your basement, or did you think we believe all that stuff about you having an adult life?

You put your guard down just this instant and we have caught you now.

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My daughter is normal in every way by Phil the Canuck (2.00 / 0) #20 Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 07:30:49 AM EST

...and she just lost her first tooth during the summer, age 7. All her teeth are coming in normally, just slowly. As my mom always said, "the quicker they grow in, the quicker they start to rot".

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Something normal by littlestar (2.00 / 0) #22 Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 08:28:05 AM EST

As I said, Popsicle has been way early with all things teeth concerned. I think between six and seven is when you are "supposed to" lose your first tooth. So, there ya go, not delayed in all things. My dentist was aghast that Popsicle had teeth out already, it is unfortunate, I also feel the sooner they are there the sooner they can be messed up. Luckily, since Popsicle had her first cavity and had it fixed we have been MUCH more fastidious about brushing. Hopefully it sticks.

*twinkle*twinkle*

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(Comment Deleted) by greyshade (2.00 / 0) #7 Wed Oct 15, 2008 at 05:10:11 PM EST

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I just offered cash by lm (4.00 / 1) #12 Wed Oct 15, 2008 at 06:49:56 PM EST

``I'll give you a buck if you give me your tooth that just fell out.''

`Okay.'

Neither of my daughters seemed particularly deprived from cutting out the mythic middlefaerie. But who knows. Maybe fifty years from now when they're talking to their grandkids they'll say, `the only thing I really regret in this life is that the tooth fairy didn't come to my house.'

There is no more degenerate kind of state than that in which the richest are supposed to be the best.
Cicero, The Republic

lying to kids, according to Terry Pratchett by clover kicker (4.00 / 2) #13 Wed Oct 15, 2008 at 07:00:32 PM EST

"You're saying humans need ... fantasies to make life bearable."
"NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE."
"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers?"
"YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES."
"So we can believe the big ones?"
"YES. JUSTICE. DUTY. MERCY. THAT SORT OF THING."
"They're not the same at all!"
"REALLY? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET YOU ACT, LIKE THERE WAS SOME SORT OF RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED."

Attn: codemonkey and flwrgrl by Breaker (2.00 / 0) #14 Wed Oct 15, 2008 at 08:54:28 PM EST

YOUR BOY HAS BEEN KISSING GIRLS WHICH IS WHY HE IS LOOSING TEETH.

GIRLS! WITH GIRLGERMS!

tooth fairy by Merekat (4.00 / 1) #18 Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 03:10:23 AM EST

No harm in it, as long as he doesn't go off to secondary school still believing:)
My question was what were fairies doing with the teeth? I decided they were probably building little tooth igloos.

: I know by priestess (2.00 / 0) #19 Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 05:51:06 AM EST

They're all fat sugar-hogs and their own teeth keep rotting away so they come in an take spares from the humans. You should see those tooth fairies, three hundred pounds of wobbling blubber and a mouth full of uneven higgledy piggledy teeth, smiling a gruesome smirk and dribbling sugar-spittle all over your sleeping face as they reach under your pillow, grab your tooth and violently smash it up into their own jaw.

Disgusting vermin.

Pre...........

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: Haven't you by komet (2.00 / 0) #21 Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 08:08:40 AM EST

watched the documentary?

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