The tooth fairy is dead
at least in our house. How long until Santa suffers the same fate?
I knew that this would be the year, or the last year, for Santa in our house, but I thought perhaps, the tooth fairy, being so newly introduced, would last longer. Perhaps the idea of a fairy, always a male in James’ mind, collecting teeth for money was just too much to be believed.
James lost his fourth tooth (although the first two were together) today and nearly immediately began to question, “But is the tooth fairy real or do people just think he is?”
I used my usual duck and dodge, “What do you think?”
“I think it’s just a person who gives me money.” Sly look.
Nailed. We had the obligatory “don’t tell your friends” talk. I mentioned he would have to be careful of his cousins, since they were so very young, they would believe for a long, long time.
Wow! I often wonder when M will stop talking about Santa and stuff. I seriously think she does not have a clue yet and she is ten. We debate tellign her but I don’t know.
Congrats on losing the fourth tooth. He is growing up and seems to have this tooth fairy thing figured out. So, do you still put the money under there?
My parents still give my younger a stocking from santa. My sister insists on it. She is twenty seven and still wants to believe in Santa. Cracks me up.
Wow! James is too smart for me . . . Baby Boy believed in Santa and the Tooth Fairy (and the Easter Bunny and other similar characters) for a lot longer than that.
Of course I was fully committed to “believing” that he believed up to the year that I was cleaning out his closet and he had written himself a list of all the gifts that “Santa” had already hidden under my bed so he would know what to buy himself with his own money.
That darn boy! Shoot!
Just thinking about that day still brings tears to my eyes, and burns me up all at the same time. I was so sad and mad all rolled up into one.
Sad because he was all grown up and didn’t believe anymore, and mad because he was snooping under my bed and found the gifts.
Kids!
gasp. I am not ready to let go of magic!
I’m not ready to let go of the magic either!
As the author of a picture book about a very big-attitude tooth fairy with high-tech gadgets, one of the questions I get from school kids when I do school visits is: “Is the tooth fairy real?”
One little girl went so far as to say, “Is the tooth fairy real? Please, please tell me pretty please with a cherry on top!”
Calling her up to stand with me in front of 300 kids ranging from Kindergarten to fourth grade, I looked at her and said, “Yes, the tooth fairy is real. But like all fairies, she simply disappears when YOU stop believing in her.”
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. I could never tell a kid otherwise — because I still believe in the tooth fairy myself!
Sheri Bell-Rehwoldt
Author, You Think It’s Easy Being the Tooth Fairy?
12,000 copies sold!
http://www.4kids.Bell-Rehwoldt.com
Sheri Bell-Rehwoldt
Author, You Think It’s Easy Being the Tooth Fairy?
12,000 copies sold!
http://www.4kids.Bell-Rehwoldt.com