Eleanor still wants to believe, and I love that innocence about her. But the last couple years she has been asking if the Tooth Fairy and Santa and Easter Bunny are real. I always respond with asking if she believes they are real. She says yes and I tell her that's all that matters. She asks if I believe and I say yes, because I believe in the magic of childhood. I just don't want her to get teased for still believing as she gets older. She has such a beautiful, sensitive, kind soul.
Most kids want to believe as long as possible. Even if they know, they still want all the secrecy about it. My eldest got told in playgroup, he was still very young. And he told his younger brother years later, so we never got to tell them personally. Which has its advantages and disadvantages. But both of them knew before they were five.
I can't remember when I discovered the Truth. It's possible that my (older) brother told me or maybe I just grew out of it. Not sure if we broke it to my (younger) sister.
I guess its best if parents *don't* break the bad news. I'm guessing that most kids probably find out in the schoolyard.
I had thought that the idea of the Tooth Fairy was a modern (either Victorian or American) invention. Apparently not:
From Wiki - In Northern Europe, a tradition of tand-fé or tooth fee was paid when a child lost their first tooth. This tradition is recorded in writings as early as the Eddas (c. 1200), which are the earliest written record of Norse and Northern European traditions. In the Norse culture, children's teeth and other articles belonging to children were said to bring good luck in battle, and Scandinavian warriors hung children's teeth on a string around their necks.
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How does he know that mom & dad aren't needed to notify the fairy? All variables aren't being accounted for!
You mean that his/her Toothness isn't omnipresent? I'm shocked..... [lol]
I actually thought a 9 year old would've been well over the belief in the Tooth Fairy by then. I wonder what other myths the kid believes in?
Eleanor still wants to believe, and I love that innocence about her. But the last couple years she has been asking if the Tooth Fairy and Santa and Easter Bunny are real. I always respond with asking if she believes they are real. She says yes and I tell her that's all that matters. She asks if I believe and I say yes, because I believe in the magic of childhood. I just don't want her to get teased for still believing as she gets older. She has such a beautiful, sensitive, kind soul.
Always going to be a tough call. The transition to teenager/young adult is TOUGH. "When I was a Child..." and all that Jazz.....
Most kids want to believe as long as possible. Even if they know, they still want all the secrecy about it.
My eldest got told in playgroup, he was still very young. And he told his younger brother years later, so we never got to tell them personally. Which has its advantages and disadvantages. But both of them knew before they were five.
I can't remember when I discovered the Truth. It's possible that my (older) brother told me or maybe I just grew out of it. Not sure if we broke it to my (younger) sister.
I guess its best if parents *don't* break the bad news. I'm guessing that most kids probably find out in the schoolyard.
We didn't have a tooth fairy back then but I found out about the "Christ Child", as we call it in Germany from classmates.
I had thought that the idea of the Tooth Fairy was a modern (either Victorian or American) invention. Apparently not:
From Wiki - In Northern Europe, a tradition of tand-fé or tooth fee was paid when a child lost their first tooth. This tradition is recorded in writings as early as the Eddas (c. 1200), which are the earliest written record of Norse and Northern European traditions. In the Norse culture, children's teeth and other articles belonging to children were said to bring good luck in battle, and Scandinavian warriors hung children's teeth on a string around their necks.
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