[mckenna]

my four year old (he will be 5 in 2 months) has a loose tooth and the new one is already coming in. he is way to young to be doing this (according to his mommy who is not ready for him to grow up). last night when i was trying to explain the process to him so he won't be scared if it falls out at school, i managed to scare him to death!! after he was in bed for a while he calle out to aske if the fairies would be coming for his teeth after he fell asleep!

how old was your child when he/she lost his/her first tooth???

[waitinginnj]

I thought that most kids were closer to 6, but I don't know. My daughter, 4 1/2, is obsessed with her teeth falling out. I think that she caught on to the tooth fairy concept from her cousin.

Tell him some kids would be jealous.

Maybe if you got him one of those pillows for him to put his tooth in, he would realize that the tooth fairy comes after it falls out?

Good Luck - and happy tooth fairy to you!

[nsanders]

DD didn't loose her first one until 7. Late. DS, who is almost 3 1/2 is about to lose one of his top front teeth. Ugh. It is already a crown. He had dental caries (baby bottle rot) when his top teeth came in from the bottle being propped in his nursery. I think.

I guess the age just depends on the teeth coming in behind them. I bet there are other kids at school who have lost teeth. Let them tell him how much they got from the tooth fairy. That might excite him.

Lol- We are going out of town and all 3 kids have a loose tooth. DD 7 may finally lose a top, DD 11 has her very last baby tooth coming out (the only one I will get to save for her, and poor little DS might lose his crown. Hopefully, the tooth fairy can wait until we get back.

[Nevada Jen]

My daughter lost the first 4 at early age 5. She is now going on 8 and still has the rest of her baby teeth. She is petrified of the footh fairy coming in her room at night while she is sleeping. Can't say I blame her. The thought of a grown human with wings standing over me and messing around by my head while I sleep would put me over the edge also. We put her teeth in a heart shaped box and leave that in the garage so the tooth fairy does not even need to come in the house.

Jen

[Lovebug]

GREAT idea, Jen!!!!! I'll have to try to remeber that one!!!!

--Renee

[allanacw]

Jen, wish I knew your suggestion a few weeks ago when Shawntay lost her first tooth (she's six). Picture it: me, crawling under her bed with a flashlight, trying to find the tooth that I had accidentally knocked out from under her pillow when trying to retrieve it. Luckily, she slept through the whole thing. I eventually gave up and found the tooth the next day.

Sigh. I'm getting a box for next time!

[mckenna]

i am happy to report that the tooth has finally come out!! about 11:30 last night my son came to my room to announce he thinks he may have gotten the tooth out. we put it in a baggie and i informed him that his tooth came out to late for the tooth fairie to add him to her schedule, so we would have to wait till the next night to put it under his pillow.

so what is the going rate for a tooth these days???

[Kelli]

McKenna, my dd is 4.5 and lost her first one (bottom front) almost two weeks ago. The new one is already coming in. I'm also interested in knowing what the going rate is.

[4baby02]

My dd is 6 and lost her first tooth on Saturday!.....Well the tooth fairy left her $5........boy I remember when I got $.25 as a kid!

I told my dh (he was the fairy but may be fired!) what does he want to go broke? He justified it by saying it was the first tooth..... Lets see when tooth #2 comes out!

[lisa in venice]

Just visited the Dentist last week and he told me that anywhere from age 4 to age 8 is the time to loose the first tooth. Girls tend to be closer to 4/5 and boys older. My older dd lost the first tooth in Kindergarden at 4 1/2 and ds didn't loose a tooth until he was 6. My younger ds is nearly 7 and hasn't lost one.

lisa

[Ians mom]

Around here the first lost tooth gets a special treat. My ds got a sticker book he had been wanting and my dd got a pair of Barbie hiking boots.

After that it is $1 per tooth. Inflation is crazy in the tooth fairy world. We used to get a .25 pack of sugarfree gum when I was a kid

[mckenna]

i think the tooth farie is bringing a pack of sugar free gum and $2. he is so young, he will probably be more excited with 2 $1 bills than 1 $5 bill.

[mommy3]

Our tooth fairy (like the one that came to my house growing up) never was a scary concept, thankfully. She always leaves little tiny notes (about 1" x 2") written in handwriting that doesn't look like mom's at all (it often gets compared as my children get older, hmmmm). We'd leave the tooth in a special fancy bowl on their dresser and they'd get to keep their teeth. My children also learned that, like Santa, you only got money from the tooth fairy (silver dollars the first time and then a paper dollar or two) IF you believed in them. We always enjoyed the magic idea, just went with the flow, so these special ideas live a long time in our house! Magic seemed easier to handle always than "a big life-sized fairy" coming into our rooms, I agree! (Both of my older children still keep the teeth in a little jar!). susan

[sandymomof2]

If you don't want to do money for the tooth fairy, I found a really neat idea for little girls. I actually saw an article in the paper about this when dd was just an infant, and have saved it. It's a crystal bracelet where the tooth fairy adds a pearl for each tooth. Google or search on ebay for "dreampearls" (no space). I just bought one off of ebay for less than the retail sight, and it's really pretty.

[Kelli]

Originally Posted by mckenna

i think the tooth farie is bringing a pack of sugar free gum and $2. he is so young, he will probably be more excited with 2 $1 bills than 1 $5 bill.

Well, it sounds like dd's fairy wasn't far off the going rate. All "the fairy" had were two singles in her wallet at the time, so that's what dd received. She loved it and was carrying them around the whole next day.