Tooth Fairy's going rate

[Anonymous]

I posted this in the general parenting forum too, but have not gotten any responses today. So, maybe that's too dominated by people with babies. So, my 5 year old has a loose tooth -- how generous is the Tooth Fairy these days anyway? I'm also curious what you've told your kids about the Tooth Fairy. Mine is a skeptical little guy, so I'm sure he'll know I'm teasing him, but I think it might be fun to lead him on anyway -- part of the magic of childhood and all. Did your kids have fun with it, and when did they really outgrow it? Thanks.

[Anonymous]

My kids' toothfairy leaves a quarter. That's 20 cents up from what she left me. However, my stepdaughter's toothfairy left her a whopping $20!

[Anonymous]

My 9 year-old neighbor told me that the tooth fairy leaves her $1.

[Anonymous]

Wow, I'm the OP, and I got a quarter 30 years ago. I guess maybe inflation in prices has been offset by population growth, so the Tooth Fairy's demand for teeth is not high

[Anonymous]

We don't do the tooth fairy. My son thought it was dumb.

He got a quarter or so for the first few, and then wasn't into it.

[Anonymous]

Our tooth fairy leaves a dollar.

[Anonymous]

Our guy (7) totally buys in to the tooth fairy. We have really tried to preserve a traditional childhood for our children and lots of the parents of peers at his school (independent) must be the same way as its working. He got $10 for the first tooth (Fairy had been a party drinking Champagne) and $1 for every tooth since then, except $2 for the tooth that had to be pulled by the dentist.

[Anonymous]

I leave $10 per tooth ...last year, my son, then age 7, who asked me one day if the tooth fairy was real or the fairy was "just people's parents." I didn't want to burst the bubble (he has a younger sibling), but I didn't want to lie. So I said,"what do you think?" He laughed and said, "the tooth fairy is real, because there is no way you would pay me all that money for my used teeth!" So you never know what they are thinking ....

[Anonymous]

When I was a kid I got silver dollars or JFK half dollars. I remember thinking it was fun and special to get unusual coins.

[Anonymous]

Our 7 yo gets a $1 for a tooth. We had those special dollar coins, but he lost one too quickly and 4 quarters were appreciated just as much.

[Anonymous]

What does the "tooth fairy" do with the teeth she buys? I've always meant to ask my mom thinking she must have a vast baby tooth collection somewhere. Seems a little morbid but throwing them away just seems wrong.

[Anonymous]

MY MIL saved them all, gave them to my husband a few years ago, and he promptly tossed them.

[Anonymous]

The tooth fairy leaves a dollar. Someone in my son's class got 5 dollars and I told him that the tooth fairy must have been pretty sleepy herself when she left that because usually it's only a dollar. LOL!

[Anonymous]

When I was a young teenager borrowing some jewelry from my mom I discovered her cache of our baby teeth. I was at first intrigued (a final confirmation of the tooth fairy not being real) and then disgusted and now think it was pretty cute that she still had them. I keep my son's in one of those Silver "frist tooth" boxes someone gave us whne he was born and hide it in my dresser drawer, just like my mom.