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

Brian_Steele

My kids get 50p or £1, depending on what the tooth fairy has in his or her pocket. My kids (three so far have entered the tooth fairy phase) have never complained, although the current child has commented that one of his friends gets a fiver.

My kids go to private school with a lot of kids who have more money than sense (actually it's the parents) - iPhones in Year 3, that kind of thing - and we are not short of a few quid, but our kids are being brought up to understand that money doesn't grow on trees.

As someone else has commented, they don't dare complain, as if they do, they are admitting they know the truth about the tooth fairy and the money might dry up!

Lexis200

fairynuf wrote: »

I'm now convinced these dilemmas are made up. You're telling me that 12 year old children are losing their first teeth now! If not how much money did the tooth fairy give them for the other teeth they have lost. This is utter nonsense!

My 11 year old has just had a baby tooth extracted as it wasn't budging despite the new one being well on it's way. From what I could gather from the dentist it's not usual but it does happen.

Mine get £1 per tooth, eldest had £2 for the last one as he had to have it pulled and the tooth fairy knows that. He grinned at me like a loon when I explained it so clearly knows it's tosh, but why tell them? Let them work out on their own that you've been lying to them from day 1

drjustice

12 years old ,dose he still believe in santa and the easter bunny ,he is either backwards or taking you for a ride

chrisrory

I assume your child is also 12, at this age you have to consider if they believe in the tooth fairy, perhaps you should do what I used to do with the kids, leave the tooth under the pillow for varying lengths of time and stick to £2 coin, and tell your sons friends parent to live in the real world and stop forcing up costs.
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Busybee13

Oh my goodness, £10! Some recession we are in! I ask my daughter what she hopes the fairy might bring, a gold or silver coin, and she either gets a 50p or a £1 coin. £10 is ludicrous for such a young child, and yes, that is definitely peer pressure if the friend is honestly getting £10 for one tooth.

pickletiger

In our house the tooth fairy used to leave what ever she had in her purse - up to 20p for a back tooth - one time she left a stack of pennies as that's all she had! Another time she wrote and left a letter in miniature writing because she was on her holidays and hadn't had a chance to go the fairy bank!
My daughter said I knew it was you - the obvious way to catch the "tooth fairy" out was not to tell mum that the tooth was under the pillow!!
I'd have passed out as a child if I'd received a £1 let alone a tenner!!

Learning_Curve

The tooth fairy puts 50p per tooth under my children's pillows. I don't feel they need more, they get treats bought for them at random times and have plenty of toys, magazines etc. Children need to learn that you have to earn money in life, you don't get anything for doing nothing unless you are hideously lucky.

Children are way too materialistic these days and I won't buy into that, my children have their heads screwed on and I always find a viable explanation if they tell me they've seen other children with 'x' amount.

£10 is a joke :rotfl:, if it's true, then that child's parents aren't thinking straight and are clearly more keen to outdo the other children's families in the playground than they are to teach their child the value of money and age-appropriateness. Don't bow to peer pressure! I thought we were in a recession...

milvusvestal

From what you say, it seems pretty clear that the parents of this other child have no concept of the value of money. It will certainly do him/her no favours believing that £10 is nothing to crow about.

In situations such as this, rewards for children are getting completely out of hand. All they do is inflate their expectations to such a degree that even the most minor events have to have some monetary attachment. Goodness knows what such children will come to expect when their birthdays come around, particularly their 18th.

Be someone who restores a concept of reality to your offspring, and ignore what someone else's parents do. That way, you won't store up problems in the future, and your child will have a better understanding of the value of money. No more than £1!

mskyrme

My daughter is 6 and the tooth fairy gave her £2 for her first tooth and she will get £1 for each tooth thats falls out (as long as they are nice and clean) and maybe a bit more for her first molar that falls out.

cathsuth

Good God, no! That'll be £200 for the full set! Way too much..