The universe answers in its own timeline. If the kid just sent an intent, it doesn't mean it'll happen right away. Hedging quantum physics (like wording it out to parents) adds probability
this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2026
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Nah the tooth fairy requires you to tell your parents as part of her fairy contract.
u got off lucky. daughter found the Santa wrapping paper one year. lined everything up and did a full presentation for us.
I did this as a kid as well, though I never confronted my parents about it. I just quietly died a little inside as the whimsical magic of my childhood was eclipsed by the cold truth of our reality.
I’d always put the money in an envelope with my kids names written to be all magical and fancy looking but didn’t try especially hard to disguise my handwriting. When my daughter was probably eight she just casually informed me how much she had noticed the tooth fairy’s handwriting looked just like mine 🤔 she’s smart, it both let me know she knew what was up but was still low key enough the gravy train kept coming for the rest of her teeth lol
My wife writes it with her left hand, to avoid this very issue!
Whenever I try that the text just looks like it was written by a stoned wombat
Good on her, she'll go far!
Spoiler: wait until he finds out about God.
Last Christmas my daughter kept getting closer to figuring things out until one night she cryptically said, "I can't wait until I'm an adult so I can learn about grown up secrets."
"What kind of secrets are those?"
"You know, like if Santa wasn't real or something."
"Well if Santa wasn't real, then we'd definitely want to keep that secret from kids like your little brother, so we'd never ever talk about it."
"Oh yeah."
Then she never mentioned it again.
It may have been our fault for doing way too many holiday activities. She must have met four or five different Santas that year.
Why is this marked NSFW? I was expecting to derail the train.
Read the title.
See my brain OCR said "Tooth Fairy Spiders" and I was like "Oh THAT makes sense but I'm feeling brave." But ended up sort of confused. 😂
It's a valuable lesson for him to learn the hard way.
Having to route your request through the proper channels to get things done.
“Did you submit a ticket?”
Well yeah kid; how the fuck is the Tooth Fairy(TM) delivery guy supposed to know if your parents don't sign-in to their localtoothfairy.com app?
I heard the app collects personal data they sell to Big Dental.
it's true. they use tracking cookies
The cookies are a ploy by Big Dental to give you more cavities they can fill
Did you take the money back?
This is why you should check under their pillow every night, just in case they do some smart shit like this.
I tried this as a kid, but i lost the tooth after day 2 and bungled the whole thing
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Wrong lesson, kid. Hide other people’s teeth under your pillow & keep telling your parents you lost another tooth. Infinite cash.
same with blood donations. The hard part is them stopping to ask questions about whose blood is in the bucket
Conscientious of you to add the spoiler tag, but I hope we don’t have many tooth fairy believers on Lemmy.
Speak for yourself, this post devastated me.
"sorry to disappoint you, Timmy, but the tooth fairy only comes once she knows the parents are aware their child is about to get some money/a visit"
I'm very surprised there are parents telling their kids about the tooth fairy that can't recover the story when confronted by their kid with such evidence.
It's not really about the evidence. Once they figure it out you can get them to play along a little longer, but they know.
My parents did lot of things I hate them for, but I'll always respect them from openly having my father be the Tooth Officer from the start
Did he wear a costume?
nah, he was just the man with the box of teeth in his drawer
“Look, you want the money or not kid?”
Wow Rogue Dad's kid really did an epic science! Heckin awesomesauce
Why is this NSFW? It’s a simple experiment, but I doubt the kid did it.
Because of its earth-shattering implications
Haha l totally did this
Honestly, I would be so proud of my kid if they brought this to me, and unless I was prepared for this eventuality, I'd probably admit they're right and paraise their critical thinking. If I was prepared, I'd start poking holes in their theory and show that they have evidence the tooth fairy isn't real, not proof, so more experimentation is required
At 9yo I would just leave it at being proud of them and their methods. I'd reward it. If they are questioning it on their own they are ready for that magic to be gone.
Oh, I wouldn't fail to reward them for their critical thinking, that's a great thing for them to be doing. I just don't want them to think their first idea is the only possible one. I guess I should have added the condition to my decision of how to act about it that if they seemed into be into continuing with the scientific process, I'd leave them to keep testing and figuring things out, but if they're done with it, which, let's be honest, most kids probably would be, I'd give and let them have their win.
Out with the tooth fair money, in with the research grants!
That's exactly what I did back in the day. My parents were dumbfounded. I remember wanting to sleep in the living room because I needed proof Santa was real. Needless to say, I've been a skeptic about stuff like that ever since.
One year I had a plan to put a "Welcome Santa!" sign in front of the fireplace in a way that it would have to be torn by Santa to get into the house. If I woke up and the sign was torn, then Santa was real and he came.
Unfortunately, I made the mistake of trusting my parents and telling them my brilliant plan. Needless to say, the sign was torn even though Santa never actually came :-(
Little did I know that this was the beginning of a lifetime of intractable skepticism
Better keep that kid off social media. When he sees some of the rampant "logic" he'll go insane.
This is why you need to pay more attention to your kids. Proper maintenance helps to maintain the resale value.