Slightbrreze jnr lost his first tooth today so we will be expecting a visit from the tooth fairy tonight. Anyone shed any light on th going rate for a tooth, and is it a higher 'first time' rate for the first one?
Cheers!
50p
One of the shiny new ones.
£10 a tooth mate 😛
Seriously though I used to just get 50p or £1, that was about 15 year ago though so rates might of increased
£1 in this part of Bedfordshire.
We gave £2 for the first and £1/tooth thereafter.
Do make sure they don't hide the tooth too well ("The tooth fairy will be able to find it inside the pillow case I'm sure") as you end up trying to strip the bed without disturbing the childs sleep.
£2 a tooth. £1 if its had a filling. Thats Yorkshire rates.
Tooth faries, Father Christmas, COE or catholic schools, harry Potter... then parents wonder why their kids run of with some nutty sect when they go to uni.
It's dreadful isn't it, Edukator.
I've never seen my son so deflated as when I innocently replied 'That's because they're puppets.' when asked why he could see a bit of string attached to one of the Thunderbirds.
Kids just really want to [i]believe[/i] stuff.
The trick is making sure that they understand that it is a [i]belief[/i] not a [i]fact[/i].
My son's 15 now and he doesn't believe in the tooth fairy or Thunderbirds anymore.
He does seem to have an irrational belief that I'll buy him the bass guitar in the charity shop down the road, though.
Kids just really want to believe stuff.
Some do, I'm sure. I was as sceptical then as I am now 🙂
hard cash under the pillow seems to push any initial scepticism off the agenda 😉
50p is enough
My kids believe in everything, like faeries, goblins father Christmas etc its lovely I hope it never ends
2 euros, 1 from the tooth fairy, the other from ratoncito perez (Spanish equivalent). Funnily enough despite no longer believing in either my kids still expect the cash 🙄
My 5yo son's already telling his friends that Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy aren't real 8)
Edukator are you a teacher by any chance?
Oh, an about £1 is the going rate in the NW.
I'm convinced that the Mentalist and all the other (mainly American) supernatural, superstitious and religious guff that fills the small screen results in a good many adults having a very tenuous relationship with reality. Add all the old wives' nonsense, computer generated images and some people live in dream world where they'll do anything in the name of irrational belief (think creationist America or Saudi Arabia).
I was a teacher and still accompany kids on language exchanges, Coyote. Whilst the majority of kids survive being lied to and deceived by their parents and adults in general I've seen some kids that live in a world of fear built on religion and superstition. This may be a convenient disciplnary tool for their manipulating parents/teachers but I fear some carry their fear and superstition into adult life.
As a young child I came to the conclusion I couldn't believe a word my parents or most adults said, I've made sure my own son hasn't reached the same conclusion. Lie to children at your peril - it will make them vulnerable to manipulation you may not approve of.
£1 here, unless they pull their teeth out too soon (5 in one go) then have a vamp gob for two years, they get nowt!
Tenner.
He does seem to have an irrational belief that I'll buy him the bass guitar in the charity shop down the road, though.
I also believe you will buy it too 😯
Edukator - you know "The Mentalist" is about someone who doesnt believe in "mediums" and such bunkum? I quite like it, a cross between sherlock holmes and sigmund freud 🙂
Oh and BOT, friends round to stay this weekend and their Jr lost a gnasher. 50p was the going rate.
More magician or illusionist but still performing the apparently impossible. I watched one episode most of the way through and won't be watching another.
How many daily papers still have the "stars" in? "Mediums" make up a significant part of the small ads in my local free paper. Do you want your children to be consulting a medium and basing important decisions on what they say?
the apparently impossible
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I think you might have watched something else...you sure it wasnt [url= http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412175/ ]"Medium"[/url] rather than [url= http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1196946/ ]"The Mentalist"[/url]?
It was definitely the Mentalist that your link describes as a "A well-known psychic". 8)
Edit: your link to the Medium is evidence to support my theory that people are over-exposed to superstitious nonsense on TV
Although not an officer of the law of any sort, he uses skills from his former career as a successful psychic medium (which was a ruse, as he does not believe anyone actually has psychic abilities) to help a team of CBI agents solve various crimes, with the hope of one day bringing Red John, the murderer of his wife, Angela, and daughter, Charlotte, to justice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_mentalist
Thhhhrrrrppppppppp!!!!!! 😛
And after reading that quote you're still not ashamed to admit to watching it? 😉 Improbable, implausible American nonsense. Whatever happened to realistic stuff like Dallas and Baywatch? (should I add a smiley there in case anyone believes everything they read on STW)
There were certainly elements of Baywatch that weren't real 🙂
Crikey. What's it like up there on your high horse?
OP: £2 a tooth
Has Crikey's post been censored? I can't see it.
bdum tish.
£2 a tooth here.
Our eldest knows who the tooth fairy is but still believes in Father Christmas.
carlosjnr mk1 lost his first tooth 3 weeks ago , he got £1 for it and was made up.
A silver sixpence for the first tooth.
£2 for first tooth , £1 each after
Just make sure 'tooth fairy' doesn't 'forget' to exchange tooth for cash 😯
Not like what happened here last week
I'm with Stratobiker, good old fashioned sixpence 🙂
Well don't you sound like a right old barrel of laughs?