Alexa's first tooth fell off!!! :D AAAAAAAAAH!! it's wild how fast they grow isn't it? her tooth fell off during a visitation with SD which SUCKS because i didn't get to keep it :(. but i dont want to dwell on that...
how many of ya'll told your kids about the tooth fairy? it hasn't even come up with my kid. I know she's over heard other kids talking about it, but she hasn't said anything about it. We do want to celebrate her teeth coming out, i'm just undecided on the tooth fairy. I just feel like if i DO tell her about it, and then the day comes that she finds out it's not true, she's going to remember that i lied to her and lying to my kid doesn't sit well with me. But at the same time i know imagining and all that jazz is part of having fun as a kid. eeeeeeek, i just dont know!
We don't do the tooth fairy. I do make a big deal about teeth though. Cae gets to pick out a special prize, like a bouncy ball or toy car. I don't lie to him.
We play the tooth fairy game, and my kids know it's me. We also play the Santa game and the easter bunny game.
Yeah I have really struggled about whether to do Santa and all that... I deciided with Santa that he might feel left out if he believes his peers over me. I have never done Easter bunny and we arent losing teeth yet. Question how do you get family to stop saying stuff like "is the Easter bunny coming to see you tomorrow.". They all act like I am crazy when I say that we haven't talked about the Easter bunny
Thanks mamas. i've discussed this with my real life friends and a lot of them have seemed to think that not allowing her to believe in all those tooth fairies and santa things is really mean of me. They've made responses to me as if i'm depriving her of kid fun stuff. So it's real cool to hear that you guys feel the same.
Alexa started hearing about santa when she started preschool at about 3 years old. Instead of getting excited though, she was like "A stranger coming in to my house at night?!!!?" and she refused to sit on his lap for a picture when he came to her school because he was a stranger. But i totally supported her and i did reveal the truth that santa was just make believe and doesn't really exist. (and about how she was right about sitting on a strangers lap) And even still some people were not into the idea that she wasn't going to have the excitment of believing in santa. But like you said mamabutterfly, she did turn it into a kind of game last year. She knows he doesn't exist but we had fun pretending.
We took her to the store yesterday and let her pick something out as a prize for her missing tooth. :D
Missiy, maybe you could do what mamabutterfly was saying. Let your kiddo know it's you and it's make-believe, but still have fun pretending??? When i told lex the truth about santa, i told her that there are some kids who really do believe in him. I told her that it was okay for her to tell those kids she does NOT believe in santa, but to let them believe if they wanted to. Maybe you can go over that with your son so when kids OR adults approach him about those things he'll understand that there are just some people who do believe and that it's fine.
Yeah that's a good point, thanks! I have already seen him disregard things I have told him in order to believe other people... (I am big on words like firefighter instead of fireman, and letting him know that ANY PERSON can do any job etc and he has told me as a 2 year old no only boys) So I feel like either way I am going to be the bad guy whether I let him believe all this stuff or not, you know? I don't want to lie to him about santa etc but I also do not want to be a grinch who doesn't believe in holiday magic when everyone else is telling him it's true. So I am following his lead pretty much. He is really interestedin the difference between real and pretend right now... so that works to my advantage. Thanks for the input!