Remember the Tooth Fairy?
"I have a funny Drew story for you, Uncle Bob...
"To fully appreciate this story you have to put yourself back into the first grade mindset... where the Tooth Fairy is as real as your mother! He has told me that the grandmother of one kid in his class "actually knows the Tooth Fairy" - "like, she's talked to her!" It amazes me that he is so smart, yet believes the story so completely and unashamedly! Of course, up until now he hasn't had any personal experience with the Lady. His knowledge has been based completely on classroom hearsay... but he has been waiting and waiting for his chance. Its been especially torturous because he is one of the youngest in his class and everyone else has already lost a few of theirs. He's had a couple loose for a while now, but for as much as he's wanted to lose them, he's at the same time been afraid to wiggle them too much in order to speed up the process. (doesn't like blood)
"Well, last night he lost his first tooth while brushing his teeth - spit it right out into the sink! Easy and painless - a moment of sheer joy! He ran and put it under his pillow, after showing it proudly to each one of us, and as quickly as he could went to sleep on top of it.
"This morning he was very happy to find an envelope with a note from the Fairy and a $1 bill inside. After he bragged a little about it to Molly, he thought for a minute and said to me, "Hay, maybe when I loose one of these teeth," (pointing to his big top middle teeth) "I'll get a $5 bill!" (the one he had lost was just a little bottom one). Apparently the bigger the tooth, the more the Fairy pays! Going on this logic, he then thinks for another minute and says, "Mom, you should loose one of your teeth and maybe she'd leave you a $100 bill... or maybe even a credit card!!!"
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"Thanks, Becky. Andrew’s a thoroughly modern young man. Please inform him, at some appropriate point, that when a Mom loses one of hers she’s less likely to get a new credit card than to find herself using one she already has. Nuff said." -Uncle Bob : )
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"Ya, like I need another credit card! I was actually thinking of sending the story into Readers Digest for the "funny things kids say" section, so maybe I will end up winning $100 after all!"
love,
Becky
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Originally posted by zeeblebotWell handled. Mine were younger than seven. To preserve a measure of whimsey
i gave him a big hug and told him, "yes, it's all true, see, there's our wrapping paper in the corner." he was OK with it.
and to buy time for their own reasoned rather than incidental discovery held them
both close one winter evening and whispered, 'I wouldn't be the first to say Santa
Claus isn't real or the last to say that he is. Up to you two to decide'. They smiled.
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Originally posted by Grampy BobbyThat was a beautiful way to break the truth to them. Let them decide as opposed to imposing the power of your authority upon their delicate growing worldviews.
Well handled. Mine were younger than seven. To preserve a measure of whimsey
and to buy time for their own reasoned rather than incidental discovery held them
both close one winter evening and whispered, 'I wouldn't be the first to say Santa
Claus isn't real or the last to say that he is. Up to you two to decide'. They smiled.
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Rec'd.
Originally posted by AThousandYoungA rather jaded aside, but the rumor was that, prior to settling down and becoming a staple of the endearing family-friendly comic, Thelma spent a few years as a Playboy bunny... so, really, things weren't really that far off.
Family Circus ruined the Easter Bunny for me. One of the little kids was asking his Mom why the Easter Bunny's handwriting was the same as hers (or something like that).