Daughter is light sleeper - help with Tooth Fairy?

My daughter is about to lose her first tooth. She is a very, very light sleeper. Suggestions for helping out the Tooth Fairy would be greatly appreciated. We don't want to be caught in the middle of playing the part!





Also, what seems to be the going rate from the Tooth Fairy these days?

Daughter is light sleeper - help with Tooth Fairy?
My daughter lost her first tooth today. I told her the tooth fairy had tooth radar and could find the tooth if she left it in the kitchen as she too is a very light sleeper. I left her $5 only because that was all the cash I had on me except a $100 bill and I think that's a little excessive. (Also she put the tooth in one of those little tooth holders. Very cutesy, but she liked it.)
Reply:my daughter has a little pillow with a pocket for the tooth and it is laid on the dresser. well mine is a little extreme the tooth fairy always left her a toy. She is so use to getting money it doesn't mean anything to her that is why we got the toy. Or should I say the tooth fairy LOL! be creative have fun when they stop believing in childhood fantasy the fun is gone.
Reply:Kids now-a-days are getting anywhere from 75 cents to 2 dollars, or at least that is what my parents are doing for my sisters. I suggest that you get some type of box or something like that to set up on the dresser, that is also what my sisters, and I have done. I also suggest that you tell your daughter that she HAS to tell you when she looses teeth, because kids are getting very clever and my younger sister when I went home last time told me that she was doing an experiment because kids at school told her that the tooth fairy isn't real, so she is hiding the teeth somewhere else to see if the tooth fairy will come and that it hadn't in three days. My parents didnt want to tell her the truth about the tooth fairy yet because there is another sister who is now loosing teeth too and they want her to get the same type of experience... So, just make sure that she tells you and that she actually does put the tooth in the box... because if she hides the tooth, but you give her money, she will end up figuring it out too... Good luck and have fun!!!
Reply:tell her to put it in a cup next to the kitchen window thats where the tooth fair flys in at. that way you dont have to worry about going into the room in the chance she would wake up
Reply:My daughters always put their teeth under their pillows.....while i am tucking them in and kissing them goodnight i use a paper dollar and i slip it discretely into their pillow case and slip out the tooth..........this is all done while they are still awake........ as I have light sleepers too....and one time...I actually went to bed and forgot....for a first tooth the fairy always brings double..
Reply:They make cute little tooth boxes...they look like jewelry boxes. Have her place it on the coffee table. Tell her that the tooth fairly will not leave anything if she wakes up. Since she is awaken so easily, you think she should place in somewhere else. A dollar is a fair amount for a tooth.
Reply:Well make up your own tradition.....Whenever she looses a tooth have her put it in a little box and place it on top of her dresser or her bathroom and if she asks just tell her that the toothfarie would not want to wake her. In my family I always got money($10-$20) or a giftcard to a store my parents knew sold something I needed and not something I would waste my money on. Good Luck and Congratulate your daughter for me!!
Reply:We have a little baseball mitt (fabric) with a tooth pocket that we hang on the outside of the door. We have said this is so the tooth fairy doesn't slip if his room isn't totally clean :) My son and his friends are getting between $2 and $5 a tooth.
Reply:My youngest is the same way. I have them put it in a snack size Ziploc baggy (telling them so it won't get lost with them moving around in their bed) and when it comes time it slides right out from under the pillow so easy! Good Luck!
Reply:Well we just bought our daughter the fairytopia barbie doll and stuck her their she was thrilled. My husbands cousin gave their daughter a 20. and she's 5. I don't know it depends on your financial situation and reason.
Reply:Our kids have a special little container that they put their tooth in. Then the container goes on the dresser next to their bed instead of under the pillow. A lot easier to be sneaky when you don't have to dig around under their pillow. The tooth fairy leaves a trail of fairy dust (glitter) over their bed and around the container, which usually holds $1-2 when they wake up. (They get the higher amount for first teeth or a really traumatic/bloody lost tooth.)
Reply:my son has a cut little fairy with a flower pot and it is for the tooth fairy it sits on his dresser....and i gave $5 for his first tooth because that was all i had on hand the night he lost his first tooth...you can buy or make something at any craft store i think i got the fairy at acmoore..
Reply:You could tell her that for the last few years the tooth fairy has been really busy and that you think it would be best to leave it on top of the pillow so that the tooth fairy can just take the tooth and put the money really quickly so that she can go to the next child.
Reply:in our house the tooth is left on the kitchen table in a tooth keeper and in the morning it is gone and there is $1 left in it's place