She needed advice on what to do if the Tooth Faerie fell asleep before switching out a tooth for a reward.
As it turns out, the very same thing has happened here. In fact, I have a whole list of Tooth Faerie Failures, including:
1. Falling asleep, tooth still under pillow in the morning
2. Unexpected tooth loss resulting in no cash, so the Tooth Faerie left a note redeemable for cash. (I thought that was pretty clever. Daya did not.)
3. Having to surrender my leopard nail stickers in place of cash.
4. Less-than-expected amounts of cash.
The Tooth Faerie has been inconsistent, to say the least. Daya knows it is me. I had to tell her last year and she was really mad at me for spoiling it. Usually I'm pretty good at my role of Mythical Being- but even I had to fire myself from being the Tooth Faerie.
Jenn's kids still believe in the Tooth Faerie. So I told her to tell them not to talk to Daya about it. She might still be bitter.
The Tooth Faerie bubble burst for me when I was in first grade...so I am shocked Jenn has been able to keep it going for so long.
Back when Daya got her first wigglers (she calls the teeth coming in "growers"), I asked around for the going Tooth Faerie rate. The answer was almost unanimous.
$5 a tooth! The kid gets $120 just for all their teeth to fall out of their head! Talk about inflation. I got a quarter, maybe a dollar when I was older.
I am a really bad Tooth Faerie.
I think you are a very generous tooth fairy. The only time my children got folding money is when I didn't have change. ha... times have changed. I had this tooth fairy discussion with my neighbors granddaughter last evening. She is in kindergarden. She says she gets either a dime or a quarter for her teeth. I guess our tooth fairies are small town, small wallet fairies. ;)
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