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<h2>Rewarding children for losing their teeth by pretending to be a tiny nocturnal fairy who snatches teeth and replaces them with cash is a strange and hilarious tradition...</h2><p>Sneaking into your child&#39;s bedroom to grab their bloody baby tooth while they&#39;re sleeping comes with the risk of them finding out that maybe you are the tiny, magical tooth-collecting lady after all. Then, of course, different parents have different tooth fairy traditions and if kids start talking at school during their tooth-losing phase, they&#39;ll probably find out the hard way that they get fifty cents per tooth but Alicia gets a twenty dollar bill, a stuffed animal and a trip to Disney World. </p><p>Coming up with funny excuses for why the &quot;Tooth Fairy&quot; didn&#39;t come last night because you fully fell asleep and forgot, or why a winged creature looks suspiciously like dad, can spiral into some funny stories for future family gatherings. So, when a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/m5veu1/tooth_fairies_of_reddit_how_do_you_do_it_without/">Reddit</a> user asked, &quot;&#39;Tooth Fairies&#39;: how do you do it without waking the kiddos? Any funny stories?&quot; people who have stealthily slipped cash under a kid&#39;s pillow were ready to share.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>1.</h2><blockquote> <p>My son refused to let Santa or the Easter Bunny or the tooth fairy in the house. He would cry and get so nervous and anxious. Santa had to leave presents on the porch. Easter Bunny left the basket on the porch. Tooth Fairy left the money in the mailbox. I still have his little letters that said Dear Santa, I love you. Please don&rsquo;t come in my house. LOL. - SandyInStLouis</p> </blockquote><h2>2.</h2><blockquote> <p>Once, my son got the bright idea to con the tooth fairy. He made Playdoh teeth and left them. As he was totally naive about this, he shared his plan with me. He anticipated untold riches! However, the fake teeth only yielded fake money - chocolate coins in gold colored foil! - BananaPeel62</p> </blockquote><h2>3.</h2><blockquote> <p>One of mine lost a tooth on Christmas Eve. We told her if the Tooth Fairy and Santa bumped into each other we would all be sucked into an alternative dimension, so she had to stay quiet in bed no matter what. - CataractsOfSamsMum</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>4.</h2><blockquote> <p>I do it at bedtime, we listen to a chapter of an audio book and she&#39;s usually passed out in 5 minutes with my arm under her pillow and wakes up in the morning with an bank transaction receipt from the National Bank of Fairies with a credit to her bank acct and a little zip pouch with a new toothbrush and the horrible smelling bubblegum mouthwash she likes - denimuprising</p> </blockquote><h2>5.</h2><blockquote> <p>Sleight of hand. We used to have a little drawstring bag for putting the tooth in, When my kids teeth fell out I would &#39;go get the bag&#39; but at the same time I would secretly wrap the money in kitchen roll and then get them to wrap their tooth in a similar piece and hand it to me to put in the little bag.</p> <p>Pretending it was the tooth I would put the wrapped up money in the bag instead, hide the wrapped tooth in my pocket, tie the drawstring and get them to place it under their pillows with the money already inside. - Tippas</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>6.</h2><blockquote> <p>When my daughter lost her tooth I completely forgot to do the swap and she told me the next morning, I made a letter from the tooth fairy explaining how she couldn&#39;t leave her money because of how messy her room was that she hurt herself trying and would come back when her room was all tidy. Gave me time to get some cash and a reason for her to tidy her room. - messicanamerican</p> </blockquote><h2>7.</h2><blockquote> <p>I tell them the Tooth fairy doesn&rsquo;t do house visits right now due to Covid, so they have to give me the teeth so I can mail it in and get the deposit electronically. - adairtd</p> </blockquote><h2>8.</h2><blockquote> <p>I have 3 kids and it&rsquo;s not hard to do it without waking them. Once the kid lost a tooth at night and we didn&rsquo;t have anything smaller than a $20 so we told him that means he lost a super special tooth. The other parents in his class heard about it and were annoyed with us bc their kids thought it was the going rate. When my middle kid got money for his first tooth he tried really hard to loosen another to make a quick buck. He swallowed it at lunch and was so upset but we paid him anyway and told him the Tooth Fairy could use magic to get it. - negcap</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>9.</h2><blockquote> <p>So one time my daughter&rsquo;s tooth fell out and the tooth fairy completely forgot that night. She was upset, but her mom explained that sometimes the tooth fairy gets busy and she will Come the next night - which will all be good because she will pay an extra 50c to make up for being late. This satisfied my daughter.</p> <p>About three months later my daughter announces that she lost another tooth a month ago, that it has been under her pillow for a month and the tooth fairy clearly owes her $15. - taxdude1966</p> </blockquote><h2>10.</h2><blockquote> <p>My youngest had the idea that the tooth fairy wears a blue sparkly dress. He would ask me if I was the tooth fairy so I let him look through my closets. No blue sparkly dress. Next summer was my parents &quot;turn&quot; for a visit and what does my son find in my mama&#39;s closet? A blue sparkly dress! Grandma&#39;s the tooth fairy! - Danivelle</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>11.</h2><blockquote> <p>My daughter (younger than my son) saw her big bro getting loot for his newly lost tooth. She was maybe 3 years old and wanted in on the action.. I caught her putting something under her pillow one evening and said, honey what are you hiding under your pillow? She looked at me and whispered &ldquo;magic coins&rdquo;. I said uhhh, what? She had placed Chuck E. Cheese tokens under pillow and when I asked why, she said that if she left some money that a secret fairy would come and leave her some teeth.</p> <p>Of course, that night I chipped small pieces off a block of Parmesan cheese and dipped them lightly in ketchup &ldquo;blood&rdquo;, placed in a bag and made the exchange.</p> <p>A much better deal than being out a five spot every time my kid sheds a tooth. - Ok-Personality9386</p> </blockquote><h2>12.</h2><blockquote> <p>I once gave my kid fifty cents worth of dimes...He wanted his tooth back. I told him to write a note to the tooth fairy and he got his &quot; refund.&quot; - copperfrog42</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>13.</h2><blockquote> <p>The tooth fairy didn&rsquo;t have any coins for our 6 year olds tooth. She took it from said 6 year olds money box.</p> <p>And yes, the tooth fairy feels guilty af. - mediastoosocial</p> </blockquote><h2>14.</h2><blockquote> <p>Sneaking into the kids room in the wee hours.</p> <p>&quot;I know the tooth fairy is you, dad. . . Can I still have the money?&quot; - Blacklight_Fever</p> </blockquote><h2>15.</h2><blockquote> <p>Years ago, my son decided he was going to catch the tooth fairy on camera by setting up his tablet to record in his room. When I walked in, I saw what he had done and walked over to it and knocked it face down. See, his tablet recorded in 30 second increments. So standing behind the tablet, I took a picture with flash on so it would light up a room like the tooth fairy. Counted to 30 and stepped out. The next morning I scrolled to find the places with me in it and deleted them before he woke up. The result was a few dollars under his pillow and a video with a flash of the tooth fairy showing up. He was so excited! - Griffle78</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>16.</h2><blockquote> <p>My son is extremely sentimental and cried when it was time to go to bed and put his first tooth under the pillow. He said he was going to miss it. I told him he didn&rsquo;t have to give it to the tooth fairy so he chose to keep it, lol. He slept with it next to him (I put it in a baggie) for 3 or 4 days after that. - pixamour</p> </blockquote><h2>17.</h2><blockquote> <p>My son tried to con the tooth fairy by cutting out triangles of white felt and passing them off as crocodile teeth. - taxdude1966</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

17 parents share their funniest story about pretending to be the 'Tooth Fairy'

Rewarding children for losing their teeth by pretending to be a tiny nocturnal fairy who snatches teeth and replaces them with cash is a strange and hilarious tradition...Sneaking into your child&#39;s bedroom to grab their bloody baby tooth while they&#39;re sleeping comes with the risk of them finding out that maybe you are the tiny, magical tooth-collecting lady after all. Then, of course, different parents have different tooth fairy traditions and if kids start talking at school during their tooth-losing phase, they&#39;ll probably find out the hard way that they get fifty cents per tooth but Alicia gets a twenty dollar bill, a stuffed animal and a trip to Disney World. Coming up with funny excuses for why the &quot;Tooth Fairy&quot; didn&#39;t come last night because you fully fell asleep and forgot, or why a winged creature looks suspiciously like dad, can spiral into some funny stories for future family gatherings. So, when a Reddit user asked, &quot;&#39;Tooth Fairies&#39;: how do you do it without waking the kiddos? Any funny stories?&quot; people who have stealthily slipped cash under a kid&#39;s pillow were ready to share.1. My son refused to let Santa or the Easter Bunny or the tooth fairy in the house. He would cry and get so nervous and anxious. Santa had to leave presents on the porch. Easter Bunny left the basket on the porch. Tooth Fairy left the money in the mailbox. I still have his little letters that said Dear Santa, I love you. Please don&rsquo;t come in my house. LOL. - SandyInStLouis 2. Once, my son got the bright idea to con the tooth fairy. He made Playdoh teeth and left them. As he was totally naive about this, he shared his plan with me. He anticipated untold riches! However, the fake teeth only yielded fake money - chocolate coins in gold colored foil! - BananaPeel62 3. One of mine lost a tooth on Christmas Eve. We told her if the Tooth Fairy and Santa bumped into each other we would all be sucked into an alternative dimension, so she had to stay quiet in bed no matter what. - CataractsOfSamsMum 4. I do it at bedtime, we listen to a chapter of an audio book and she&#39;s usually passed out in 5 minutes with my arm under her pillow and wakes up in the morning with an bank transaction receipt from the National Bank of Fairies with a credit to her bank acct and a little zip pouch with a new toothbrush and the horrible smelling bubblegum mouthwash she likes - denimuprising 5. Sleight of hand. We used to have a little drawstring bag for putting the tooth in, When my kids teeth fell out I would &#39;go get the bag&#39; but at the same time I would secretly wrap the money in kitchen roll and then get them to wrap their tooth in a similar piece and hand it to me to put in the little bag. Pretending it was the tooth I would put the wrapped up money in the bag instead, hide the wrapped tooth in my pocket, tie the drawstring and get them to place it under their pillows with the money already inside. - Tippas 6. When my daughter lost her tooth I completely forgot to do the swap and she told me the next morning, I made a letter from the tooth fairy explaining how she couldn&#39;t leave her money because of how messy her room was that she hurt herself trying and would come back when her room was all tidy. Gave me time to get some cash and a reason for her to tidy her room. - messicanamerican 7. I tell them the Tooth fairy doesn&rsquo;t do house visits right now due to Covid, so they have to give me the teeth so I can mail it in and get the deposit electronically. - adairtd 8. I have 3 kids and it&rsquo;s not hard to do it without waking them. Once the kid lost a tooth at night and we didn&rsquo;t have anything smaller than a $20 so we told him that means he lost a super special tooth. The other parents in his class heard about it and were annoyed with us bc their kids thought it was the going rate. When my middle kid got money for his first tooth he tried really hard to loosen another to make a quick buck. He swallowed it at lunch and was so upset but we paid him anyway and told him the Tooth Fairy could use magic to get it. - negcap 9. So one time my daughter&rsquo;s tooth fell out and the tooth fairy completely forgot that night. She was upset, but her mom explained that sometimes the tooth fairy gets busy and she will Come the next night - which will all be good because she will pay an extra 50c to make up for being late. This satisfied my daughter. About three months later my daughter announces that she lost another tooth a month ago, that it has been under her pillow for a month and the tooth fairy clearly owes her $15. - taxdude1966 10. My youngest had the idea that the tooth fairy wears a blue sparkly dress. He would ask me if I was the tooth fairy so I let him look through my closets. No blue sparkly dress. Next summer was my parents &quot;turn&quot; for a visit and what does my son find in my mama&#39;s closet? A blue sparkly dress! Grandma&#39;s the tooth fairy! - Danivelle 11. My daughter (younger than my son) saw her big bro getting loot for his newly lost tooth. She was maybe 3 years old and wanted in on the action.. I caught her putting something under her pillow one evening and said, honey what are you hiding under your pillow? She looked at me and whispered &ldquo;magic coins&rdquo;. I said uhhh, what? She had placed Chuck E. Cheese tokens under pillow and when I asked why, she said that if she left some money that a secret fairy would come and leave her some teeth. Of course, that night I chipped small pieces off a block of Parmesan cheese and dipped them lightly in ketchup &ldquo;blood&rdquo;, placed in a bag and made the exchange. A much better deal than being out a five spot every time my kid sheds a tooth. - Ok-Personality9386 12. I once gave my kid fifty cents worth of dimes...He wanted his tooth back. I told him to write a note to the tooth fairy and he got his &quot; refund.&quot; - copperfrog42 13. The tooth fairy didn&rsquo;t have any coins for our 6 year olds tooth. She took it from said 6 year olds money box. And yes, the tooth fairy feels guilty af. - mediastoosocial 14. Sneaking into the kids room in the wee hours. &quot;I know the tooth fairy is you, dad. . . Can I still have the money?&quot; - Blacklight_Fever 15. Years ago, my son decided he was going to catch the tooth fairy on camera by setting up his tablet to record in his room. When I walked in, I saw what he had done and walked over to it and knocked it face down. See, his tablet recorded in 30 second increments. So standing behind the tablet, I took a picture with flash on so it would light up a room like the tooth fairy. Counted to 30 and stepped out. The next morning I scrolled to find the places with me in it and deleted them before he woke up. The result was a few dollars under his pillow and a video with a flash of the tooth fairy showing up. He was so excited! - Griffle78 16. My son is extremely sentimental and cried when it was time to go to bed and put his first tooth under the pillow. He said he was going to miss it. I told him he didn&rsquo;t have to give it to the tooth fairy so he chose to keep it, lol. He slept with it next to him (I put it in a baggie) for 3 or 4 days after that. - pixamour 17. My son tried to con the tooth fairy by cutting out triangles of white felt and passing them off as crocodile teeth. - taxdude1966 

Rewarding children for losing their teeth by pretending to be a tiny nocturnal fairy who snatches teeth and replaces them with cash is a strange and hilarious tradition...  Sneaking into your child&#39;s bedroom to grab their bloody baby...