What To Do When You Drop Your Child's Tooth Meant For The Tooth Fairy Down The Drain!

   

So your school age child has lost a tooth! Exciting, right? Not necessarily!

Picture this: It's bedtime. You child is thrilled because he or she finally lost that tooth they've been working on getting out just a few moments beforehand. They've got their jammies on and are actually eager to crawl into bed. They're beyond excited to put the tooth under their pillow for the Tooth Fairy!

Then they suddenly remember that it's a bit dirty from the partially dried blood on it. They're about to put it under running water to clean it when you say: "Let me do it, because it might fall down the drain." You child is so trusting in you that they agree that you have a point and hand it over. And then you turn on the water and start - "Oh $%^&!"   

The pressure from the faucet, although not gushing, tears the tooth out of your grasp sending it forever gone down the drain to where many goldfish have gone! The very tooth that you told them that they would drop down the drain!

So now you have a child at bedtime that is completely devastated and heartbroken. Ravaged by the disappointment in the one they trusted with their now forsaken tooth. Tears flowing by the gallon and sheer heartbreak in their eyes over the fact that the Tooth Fairy will never be able to visit them while they sleep now. All this while your spouse is standing back, looking at you, wondering what the heck to do to fix this... Can I say #MommyFail? 

But fear not! Here's what you can do: 

While you may not be able to get that tooth back ever again, you can reassure them that the Tooth Fairy will still in fact visit them! You write a letter to the Tooth Fairy, advising her that it was not your child's fault that the tooth is missing, but that it is your fault. Thankfully I thought of this all of a sudden while my child was bawling profusely. 

I told him to wait a moment, and that I had an idea. I ran downstairs and grabbed some paper and a pen. I wrote a note to the Tooth Fairy explaining what happened, and we left that under his pillow instead of the tooth. Thankfully, it consoled him and immediately reassured him that she would still come. After all, the Tooth Fairy always knows when a child has lost a tooth. This way, she wouldn't spend time trying to look for the tooth, because she would read the letter and know exactly what happened. 

So if you ever find yourself having made a foolish move like I did, consider yourself armed with an emergency back-up plan! 

When you write your note to the Tooth Fairy, please tell her that I, (a.k.a. Dumba$$) says hello! 

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