Real life MMD: Is the Tooth Fairy subject to inflation?

Talent

12 years old.
Tooth fairy.
Nuff said.

pennypinchUK

Be grown up, make your own decisions and pay what you think is right and what you can afford. This is a moral dilemma?

billco

So the lil guy wants to make some cash, nothing wrong with trying.

To the mother give him £10 of you think you can afford it but remember he has 20 more or so to go.

billco

omg it really did take me 10 minutes to type that post out...

andysuth

I'm surprised you haven't set up a survey for this issue.

It is a issue that parent's worry about being too generous or not generous enough.

I think in hind sight I'd have started at 50p and then you have the option of going up in price, but it's hard to explain why the tooth fairy drops from £2 to £1 when finances are tough.

-AS

shzbaby

So going by £10.00 per tooth, on average children lose 20 teeth = £200.00... and thats per child!!

hippygran

Our tooth fairy always left my sons a £1 coin (quite generous really as this was 25 years ago now).

Too generous as it turned out!

Number 2 son suddenly seemed to be losing a LOT of teeth! WHY? Well he was buying them off kids who only got 20p from their tooth fairy, was putting their teeth under his pillow, and splitting the £1 50/50 with them!! :rotfl:

So.............NO...........don't start giving him a tenner, or he will suddenly start losing an awful lot of teeth!

My son wasn't 12 by the way, was only about 5 or 6!

Ebenezer_Screwj

Why is this a moral dilemma ? I have never heard such nonsense . . . tooth fairy ???!!! Get real.

emmieang

At the grand age of 46 I still have a baby tooth, though I am not expecting the tooth fairy to come any day soon.
My daughter is 11 and we no longer give anything for teeth but she is still losing them and so the dentist tells me will continue to do so for a while.
Nice story but I think the other parents are being had, if they don't believe then they shouldn't get.

sarah01uk

£10 is far too much! ALthough my parents (dentists!) used to 'ask the tooth fairy' to leave me a little present instead of money anyway

I think whether he believes or not is irrelevant - shouldn't have the privilege withdrawn just because he's smart enough to have worked it out!!

I've 24 and santa still brings me a stocking

xx