I used to live in a really fancy neighborhood, so of course, my kids' friends were getting serious money, etc. I treat the tooth fairy like the mail carrier…there are different fairies and the fairy that worked our block gives out handwritten notes that could be exchanged for (an ice cream cone…a Robeck's juice…a yogurt…)

I don't even go down the money path because there's always some kid who gets more, and as they get older they do understand money more and it can be annoying.

We are one percenters in a fancy house in McLean and our spoiled kid gets a $1 gold coin for each tooth. Grandma needs to tone it down. And I let a lot of things slide with my mom and MIL but would draw the line here.

Where is your husband in all this? Why isn't he also being called cheap,and why ddoesn't he respond to his mother?

1) your husband needs to tell his mother to back off.

2) if he won't and she won't, tell them MIL is ruining the tooth fairy for you kid, then tell kid the truth about the tooth fairy.

3) $25 is insane.

This is not a tooth fairy problem, it is a grandma problem.

My almost-9 year old is always happy to get a gold dollar coin when he loses a tooth, although he is under no illusion that a fairy brings it. It's not a lot, but the "gold coin" aspect makes it special. He has friends that get larger amounts, lego sets, etc. from the "tooth fairy," but he really likes the gold coin tradition.

Perhaps grandma could learn from her granddaughter that it's not the dollar amount that matters here.

Ridiculous. For us it was always some kind of "special" money -- a fifty cent piece or silver dollar.

Seriously some perspective.

My ds lost a tooth last week. I had a one and a five. I was going to leave a 5 and dh about had a heart attack.
This was ds 4th tooth and every other tooth we left $2.
Dh scrounged enough quarters to leave $2.
I posed this question on FB and apparently the general consensus is that $5 is insane!

AU Park - last week my daughter got a quarter and was thrilled. She went to the gum ball machine and enjoyed it.

We only EVER do a $1 coin. It makes it special because it's a gold coin and it doesn't get too expensive - and we live in McLean. $25.00 is just nuts for a tooth.

Anonymous wrote:If she leaves the $25, tell your kid it was the orthodontia fairy. The fairy leaves that money for kids to save up for braces. Go open a savings account with it.

The end.

+1

Anonymous wrote:She already had her shot to play tooth fairy. Now it's your turn and your rules.

+1 Anywhere between $1-$5 (coins are most favored by the tooth fairy on our street) is the going rate here. When I was little, I got a dime or an quarter for the first ones and a dollar for molars (1970's).

When my youngest was in 1st grade, I was volunteering in the classroom when they were learning about money. They all had their coins out on the table. I wondered aloud where I could get dollar coins and one of my DC's classmates said, "Ask the tooth fairy, she has tons of them.

Also, the tooth fairy was so forgetful at my neighbor's house that one time she came and put money under everyone's pillow because she couldn't remember who she owed what.

Take the money

MIL is ruining the concept of the tooth fairy. What a bitch move all around.

What news this morning, OP?

Is your husband with you? He needs to put on his big boy pants and tell his mother to back off.

If she leaves the $25, tell your kid it was the orthodontia fairy. The fairy leaves that money for kids to save up for braces. Go open a savings account with it.

The end.