Tooth Fairy Ooops

Big hug in the morning before they get up and slip the money under the pillow. If the child is already up drop the money on the floor and kick a stuffed animal over it and help them find it.

Not that I have ever had this happen mind you. :p

Here's what worked for me: "What? Impossible!" (grabs money) "Let me look---HERE it is--INSIDE the pillow case!"

Yep...

I woke up to find the item still on the living room table...(which I asked a certain man if he would take care of)...he must have forgotten.

So when daughter woke up and said "Tooth Fairy must have forgotten about me!"...

I said "well let me make a phone call and see if I can find out what happened!"

Sent her to brush her teeth, telling her I can't call the tooth fairy if she's in the room, it's a no no...and loud enough so she could hear me I had a conversation with myself.

All the while placing the tooth fairies stuff in the back corner under all the stuffed animals.

When my daughter was done I said "the tooth fairy said she left it by the stuff animals and she got called away in the middle of her visit so she forgot your tooth. I'm supposed to mail it to her!"

It worked. And she thought it was fun that I knew how to talk to the tooth fairy.

BTW...we had to fire our original tooth fairy cause he kept forgetting too! HMMM...do you see why I've got to be creative?

Search really hard. I bet the money fell behind the bed :)

Well, beds are soft and slippery, so of course, it must have slipped onto the floor somewhere - look around and palm that sucker so that one of you "finds" it :)

Btdt....tooth fairy was really busy that night...but she rewards extra patient kids the next night with more $$.

I have done this many times...with 8 kids it's bound to happen. A few times I was able to fix it while they were busy and they had forgotten themselves. Other times I just say " well she must have been really busy last night" then we put it under the pillow the next night...........where I work really hard not to forget again.

we never did the tooth under the pillow for that reason. we hung the tooth on the bulletin board in a baggy and that way in the morning before my son got up the tooth fairy changed out the baggies!!

Well once or twice I would say "OOh no maybe it fell down somewhere" then we would look and I would have stratigically placed it while looking. Hope that help!

The tooth fairy must have not had a chance to get to you last night. Let's put it under again tonight. Sometimes I did the thing Shane mentioned where I "found" it while helping them search further under the pillows.

And then post yourself a note somewhere so you won't forget.

Tooth fairy must pay double the amount:). My kids used to hope she would forget.

This happened to me a couple of times too.

Fortunately, I was able to slip the money in the blankets while my kid was busy searching under the pillow and yay!....the money was there. As far as the tooth not being gone, I just said that the Tooth Fairy knew that mommy was sentimental and would want to keep the tooth and that's why she didn't take it. I had to come up with that story on the fly when my oldest found several of her teeth in one of my keepsake boxes and wanted to know why I had them.

With my second child, I didn't even pretend to take the tooth. How lucky! I got to keep the tooth AND they still got money for it.

Some people think the tooth fairy thing is ridiculous, but truly, I think it helps a bit when kids can be a little freaked out about losing a tooth. God....I remember my parents using the string and door knob trick and all kinds of archaic other manners of torture. Eventually, I just found it best to get my own teeth out and get it over with. Knowing the tooth fairy would come after all that effort somehow made it all worth while.

There's nothing wrong with the tooth fairy getting a little creative when the need arises.

I am not kidding...my daughter is 25 years old now and I have a note right here in my desk that she left the tooth fairy when she was 5. It says, "Dear tooth fairy, hear is a doller. By something pretty for you". The dollar is still taped to the note and her tooth is still inside it. I obviously treasure it.
I think I might give it to her when my grandson loses his first tooth.

Like I said, it's fine for the tooth fairy to get creative.
It's not the end of the world.

Best wishes!

That happened to me the last time. I just said the fairy probably couldn't find the tooth under the pillow and try again tonight. My GD didn't lose any teeth until she was 7. She's 10 now; she knows the tooth fairy is me so it really doesn't matter about protecting the myth. She's just in it for the cash!

I did the same thing to my 8 year old son. He as very sad when he saw that the TOOTHFAIRY had forgotten to get his tooth under the pillow. I had told him that our dr (I work in a ciildrens dental office) did plenty of extractions that day and the TOOTHFAIRY couldn't get to everyone that had their extraction done so TOOTHFAIRY should be visiting the following nite. That night I made sure I wouldn't forget by putting the alarm on my iphn to remind me to put $& under the pillow and take the tooth. It worked like a charm and. He believed me. Guess when you have 4 kids close in age you tend to forget...;)

The tooth fairy was great with my first two kids, but for my third - not so much! He learned that the tooth fairy could come at any time - during the night or any time during the day. So, if I forgot or fell asleep at night, he'd just keep checking, and sure enough, eventually the money would be there!

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The tooth fairy was great with my first two kids, but for my third - not so much! He learned that the tooth fairy could come at any time - during the night or any time during the day. So, if I forgot or fell asleep at night, he'd just keep checking, and sure enough, eventually the money would be there!

It happens to every tooth fairy! Sometimes, the tooth fairy leaves the present in an unexpected spot. Sometimes the tooth fairy comes the next night and leaves a note (typed in very tiny font and sprinkled with glitter!) explaining how so many kids lost teeth all at once that she couldn't make it, or that her wing was sore and she needed to rest. The tooth fairy even once told my daughter that her room was too messy to get to her!

We are a terrible tooth fairy and forget often. The excuses we use are normally that our son woke up too early and she hadn't had a chance to come yet, or that she must have a day off that day.

Hey, sometimes the toothfairy is so exhausted by the time she gets to your kid, that she's a little punchy and half asleep and kinda drops it in the wrong place (wink, wink)

One and Done's got the right idea.........been through it myself several times
with my last born (poor thing, she got the short end of the stick)

Gabi: Mommy mommy the tooth fairy didn't take my tooth
Mommy: "Gasp"......no......are you sure she forgot....lets look together....
(grab money) then suddenly find it in the pillowcase or under the bed!
Gabi: (full pout and big sad eyes) But why didn't she take my tooth
Mommy: (big hug) Aw honey, it's ok...sometimes the tooth fairy has so many teeth to carry that she has to leave some behind 'cuz they're so heavy. She's tiny you know..like Tinkerbell. She gave you the dollar, so she knows it's here and will probably come pick it up tonite ok?
Gabi: (ponders it, scrunches up her nose) ok mommy.

And of course, YOU KNOW I'm staying up making sure that tooth disappears!! LOL
By the time my youngest was done with teeth, she knew the toothfairy often had off days...LOLOLOL

You hide it in the back of the bed and say that it must have dropped. You can still do it. Just say lets go make sure we haven't missed it and let your child discover it.

This has happened to me on more that 1 occassion. Well, "the fairy is very busy with other kids and she was tired'. Or, "her bag was so heavy that she had to go empty it and didn't get to you before you woke up - be patient she certainly has not forgotten about you, sweety."
Once the fairy totally forgot to take the teeth!!! Good luck.

A little note from T. Fairy might help: "You wouldn't believe how many teeth have been lost all over the world this week! So I've fallen a bit behind. As soon as I can find them all - wouldn't you love to know what we do with those teeth? - you'll be hearing from me! I'll surprise you!"