I am not a parent but remember when I was a child and the trusty old tooth fairy would come and leave that crisp dollar bill under my pillow for the loss of my tooth. One of our nephews who is six now lost his second tooth the other night his first tooth he found a crisp 20 dollar bill under his pillow this time a ten spot. My brother and sister in-law said the 20 was because it was his first tooth but now every other is 10 bucks.
What the heck happened to the standard buck for a tooth? When I was a kid and got that kind of money for a tooth I would be knocking them out left and right. I know we have a lot of parents on here so I was wondering what your protocol is for the tooth fairy? I am curious to see if this is standard or are they continuing to spoil him rotten which they do regularly.
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Assuming they lose all their teeth before outgrowing it.
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plan accordingly cost-wise. These parents are in for 210 bucks at that rate. I'd argue that kids that age probably don't need 210 bucks but, hey, opinions vary.
Assuming they lose all their teeth before outgrowing it.
Outgrowing getting 10 bucks? As a Dad of teenagers, I can say that's pretty unlikely. :)
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I used to get a quarter two pence......
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Wiseass..still better than 100 Won!
I think we gave them 5 for the first tooth, maybe 10, and then 1 or 2 dollars for the others whatever I had at the time.
My youngest who is 8 has older siblings that were ruthless with that stuff and ruined most of it for her.
she was the kid who told all her 2nd grade classmates Santa wasn't real. My wife got some angry emails and texts over that one.
My youngest who is 8 has older siblings that were ruthless with that stuff and ruined most of it for her.
she was the kid who told all her 2nd grade classmates Santa wasn't real. My wife got some angry emails and texts over that one.
email and social media making the brave out of the wussy asses..
We did the same.
Man...I still remember when you could get yourself a delicious bowl of spicy rice cake (thuckbokki) for 100 won...but this was more than 30 years ago. Man...nostalgia!!!
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Wiseass..still better than 100 Won!
Man...I still remember when you could get yourself a delicious bowl of spicy rice cake (thuckbokki) for 100 won...but this was more than 30 years ago. Man...nostalgia!!!
This got me thinking about what I did when I was a kid and how things have changed. I remember my dad sending me to the store for a pack of cigarettes for him he would give me I think .50 cents or something like that and the store only sold them out of a machine rather than over the counter. I would put the money in the machine and the pack would come out with the change taped to the pack I think it was like .15 cents taped to the box 35 cents for cigs now they are like 6 bucks.
And the be home when the street lights come on that was a must not home within 10 minutes my ass was grass and my dad was the lawn mower.
So $5 instead of $1 sounds perfectly reasonable to me.
And we gave my daughter $5 for her first tooth and $1 for her second. She's only lost two so far, but we're giving her $1 for each.