The tooth fairy

jelly beans...........

any time of year

actually, fairies are not real

demons are demons

Easter is considered the day Jesus rose from the dead

when I grew up, and I am not THAT old, everybody knew that. unbelievers included

what has happened that just about everything now is pagan?

start by renaming the days of the week and calendar and then go from there

Dentists gave lollies to children???
When was this?

Maybe sugar free lollies?
Was it like when doctors gave cigarettes to patients. Now they just give morphine...

Ronald Reagan used to eat the black ones (licorice).
I wonder if the secret service guys would make 11pm runs down the block when the craving hit.
Lol
3am?...lol

my choice as well...also orange as a close second

we used to get these little licorice things up in Canada...have not seen them down here...but my husband used to hide the bag on me...I told him to haha

I sees em I eats em

Someone wrote in the paper today...(its mostly a listing from elderly letter writers all their gripes) that if we go to a cashless society, how are we going to pay the tooth fairy?

Can anyone explain what the tooth fairy actually does with all these childrens teeth?

I dont recall ever reading a story about it. I know the story Cinderella, and Peter Pan that featured fairies, but never one specifically about the tooth fairy.

Children often live in a pretend world of make believe,
generally they know what is real and what is make believe.

I use to have teddy bear parties, with talking teddy bears, it did me no harm.
I loved books and stories about elves and fairies and princesses, it did me no harm.
I use to pretend I was riding a horse and run everywhere!

Physiologists say the make believe play world is good for creativity and social
development for children. Having pretend tea parties, pretending to be a horse
and all the other fun things kids do, is fun, imaginative and to some degree it is
preparation for interaction in the real world.

Personally I don’t think there is any harm in parents playing along in the make believe
world, as long as the child knows the difference between what is play and what is real.

Shutting down creativity and abstract thinking, is actually a bad thing.
We need to be able to think outside the box.

YOU MEAN TO TELL ME TOOTH FAIRY AND SANTA AREN'T REAL???????????
Then HOW in the world did THIS ever happen????

Once upon a time many many many MANY moons ago I was a young, innocent child...........
I had a very wiggly tooth that was so close to coming out.......
I was walking to my room, or probably bouncing off the walls seeing as how it WAS Christmas Eve..........
Had a sippy cup in hand (I was only 4 or 5 and often had one I took to bed in case I got thirsty in the middle of the night)
I went to take a drink and somehow banged the cup into the corner of the wall which in turn banged against the wiggly tooth!!!!
Low and behold it came out!!!!!!
What an extra special morning it was when I woke up!!!!!!
Christmas Eve I got a visit from Santa AND the Tooth Fairy!!!!!

Cigarettes are a safer alternative.

Outstanding well-written post. Yes, what's the difference between reading a child a bed-time story that is real and pretending about the tooth fairy. I agree with your statement also about teaching your child the difference between what is real and what is pretend.

There is no story about the tooth fairy? Then where did this strange idea come from? Dont tell me its the coca cola company behind it again, didn't they invent Santa Claus? It seems he only ever appears in coca cola brand clothing.

Lucky you. Never got a visit from any of them. If we wanted to see santa, we had to go to the shopping mall. And buy our own gifts.

https://www.123dentist.com/a-brief-history-of-the-tooth-fairy/



Ultimately, the reason the tooth fairy legend continues to grow and evolve across cultures is that it provides a level of comfort to children. As you grow, your body undergoes many changes, but arguably the first and most traumatic for children is the loss of a tooth or two. The tooth fairy and the mouse legends like Parez help bring comfort and excitement to a traumatic experience.
Today dentists use the tooth fairy to encourage dental health, even encouraging parents to propagate the legend with the notion that a tooth that is cleaner receives a larger reward. This kind of encouragement and the notion of a tooth fairy makes dental work easier for children, and that’s a very good thing.

Is there a fairy that explains puberty?
Especially for girls. When you first see blood coming out between your legs, its very traumatic.

No but that’s the parents job.
Any decent parent would prepare
them before it happens.

Plus there is a world of difference between a 7 year old and a 12-13 year
old. Pubescent girls no longer believe
in the tooth fairy, as far as I am aware.

I doubt very much they would believe
in a menstrual fairy either. But hey you can always give it a go. 😁

My parents told me nothing, does that make them indecent? I learned from friends at school.
Mum just told me wear a pad. My big sister never mentioned it.

At seven i wouldnt have believed in any fairy. I knew it was rubbish and they didnt exist. I also kinda knew that the santa claus story was rubbish but some children insisted it was real. But they were probably brainswashed. We didnt have a chimeny and wasnt likely santa would give gifts to us when we knew it was just other people. Lol

I tested this out one day on my dad, i was going to to write a letter to santa and he said n he doesnt exisr. So I just wrote a what I would like for christmas wishlist instead because my sister kept insisting we had to buy presents for each other. Not that we had any money!

Just hint to dad that we wanted such and such. Then my sister got my dad to buy all the gifts, wrap thm so we wouldnt knkw what they were, and only open the, on christmas day. It was kind of a farce. As I grew up it was kinda tiring to have to go along with this every year!

My mum often disapproved of christmas but she also went along with it herself in that she bought other family members gifts but the thing is it was a huge thing on her to always be cooking on that day. There would be fights and dramas over the cooking. And if she didnt like a surprise gift she made sure you knew.