Tooth Fairy accomodations: great tips from the comments
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I wrote earlier this week
about the tooth fairy slacking off quite a bit, forgetting to pick up teeth and deliver the goods to two sleeping girls
in particular. In the comments several people had some suggestions for helping 'The Tooth Fairy' remember to pick up the tooth. I had never considered anything but tucking the tooth under a pillow. But since the 'Tooth Fairy' is often really tired at the end of the day, she sometimes doesn't remember to check under a pillow - out of sight, out of mind.
Belinda suggested having the newly de-toothed child write a note about losing the tooth to stick on the bedroom door frame before bed. So that as the 'Tooth Fairy' stumbles to bed she might be reminded.
Katie's family used (and still uses) a special Tooth Fairy saucer from the china cabinet which stayed on the kitchen counter to help the Tooth Fairy collect the teeth.
I really like this idea since once, the 'Tooth Fairy' was caught red-handed with glitter and a quarter in her hand as she attempted to extract the tooth from underneath my very light sleeping daughter's head. Since our 'Tooth Fairy' looks remarkably like me, I stuffed the glitter in my pocket and pretended I was 'just checking to see' if the Tooth Fairy had made it. And OH MY GOSH! She did! Here's your quarter! Smooth.
Meg has a great suggestion to explain a Tooth Fairy's missed visit, I'm sure I'll have to use at some point in the future. Her niece got a note from the Tooth Fairy thanking her for her clean room, because sometimes the Tooth Fairy has tripped on a toy while working in the dark and broken a wing. This makes her miss work as you might imagine.
A clean room and a Tooth Fairy visit remembered? Perfect.
Photo from Big-E-Mr-G.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Angela Fay 3-31-2006 @ 3:40PM
We always put our lost tooth in a special wine goblet filled with water on the dresser. In the morning we'd find a quarter in the glass. In retrospect it probably cleaned the tooth up a bit (my mom kept them all) and doubled as a reminder to the fairy when were checked on at night. The bonus? When my friends all started getting dollar bills my mom explained that the tooth fairy on our route didn't want to get the money wet, so we capped out at fifty cents.
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Anne 3-31-2006 @ 10:20PM
Funny that this article came up. I got a packet from my sons class today that talked about what happens when the tooth fairy forgets.
They had some good suggestions:
1. Tie some dental floss around your toothbrush so you *ahem* the tooth fairy has a reminder.
2. If you do forget, help your child 'look' for the money and drop a dollar bill (crumpled) on the floor and blame it being on the floor cause your child tosses and turns too much. Say she must have dropped the tooth when she was putting down the dollar and didn't realize it.
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Hall 4-02-2006 @ 4:13AM
No help here on remembering to do tooth fairy duty, but I do have a suggestion in case the tooth in question ever gets lost. My daughter wouldn't let us pull a dangling tooth... it hung by a thread for weeks. It finally left her mouth while at McDonald's with her grandfather, whether in the play structure on while eating, we'll never know. After they had looked and looked, her grandfather, god bless him, told her that his grandmother told him that the tooth fairy will take a bean in place of a tooth if need be. Hysteria abated, the bean was put under the special tooth fairy pillow (much easier to deal with than the one under the head)... and it turned out to be true. The bean was replaced with money in the morning. Imagine that.
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Jana Long 4-16-2006 @ 7:20PM
We also put special coins in the tooth fairy pillow (http://www.cherishedchildhood.com/products/childhoodcherished/thetoothfairytreasuresbox.htm) and also foreign money -- since the Tooth Fairy goes all over the world. This is a great help when the kids are comparing money -- they don't really know the "value" of the foreign currency
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sanjana 6-20-2006 @ 4:26PM
hi
toothfairy h ru
i hope you are fine. i am also fine here. can you plz give for me a magic plz. i wan't a real magic plz. if i like you i would have a magic.
from sanjana
plz can i have your magic plz.
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