Tooth fairy

Our house hold does the tooth fairy but we don't put the tooth under the pillow. We put it in a glass of water beside the bed because the tooth fairy doesn't wanna have to wake the child searching for a tooth under the pillow. (My oldest who's 7, is the only one losing teeth, and he's a horrible wiggle worm, so this really works for him.) My parents did this with my siblings as I. The tooth fairy leaves a dollar twenty five in quarters in the cup, along with fairy dust (glitter) around the cup, and even some sprinkled on the pillow. My children love when the tooth fairy comes. Though clean up can be a mess, it's well worth it to see them get excited over something so small and simple. I enjoy seeing and hearing all about what the tooth fairy did, and how she snuck in to the rooms, and so on.

I used to look forward to putting my tooth under my pillow and seeing how much the tooth fairy would leave me. I was happy to see any amount of money then. Now a days the tooth fairy leaves lots more than back when I was younger. It is something that I think will never get old and people will away tell their children about the tooth fairy.

From the beginning I have told my kids the truth about Santa claus and the tooth fairy and the easter bunny. Its not dissapointing to them because I just give my daughter money. I give her 50 cents per tooth and my ex usually gives her a $1 and then we go to the store and she gets to buy something for herself.

Oh,I haven't heard of the fairy before.Is it a folklore or a fairy from a book?

My kids are grown but I did it with them to. As my daughter will do the same for my granddaughter only thing different instead of quarter that I use to get she will probably get 5.00 dollars. I use to look forward to the tooth fairy and always wondered how she got the tooth without me feeling her under my pillow.

In my country it´s a rabbit. He needs the children´s teeth as he uses his so much. I don´t know if my daughters go on with the tale. At the time my children were little, kids never had the enormous amounts of money parents give them now. Gifts were for birthdays and Christmas. Now my grandsons get a present at every trip to the super. When I write this, I discover that I´m VERY old. HURRAY for the tooth fairy, for the bunny, for Santa Claus!!!

I don't remember every believing in the tooth fairy when I was little. But, my daughter does believe and we leave a dollar or two everytime she leaves a tooth under her pillow. Soon she'll stop believing. They grow up so fast.