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.

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?

Wrong lesson, kid. Hide other people’s teeth under your pillow & keep telling your parents you lost another tooth. Infinite cash.

Why is this marked NSFW? I was expecting to derail the train.

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

I tried this as a kid, but i lost the tooth after day 2 and bungled the whole thing

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.

Nah the tooth fairy requires you to tell your parents as part of her fairy contract.

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.

Conscientious of you to add the spoiler tag, but I hope we don’t have many tooth fairy believers on Lemmy.

"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.

nsfw to protect people still believing in toothfairy?

“Look, you want the money or not kid?”

Haha l totally did this

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

Spoiler: wait until he finds out about God.

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.

Jokes on them, I occasionally forgot when my kid told me and just had to say I guess the tooth fairy was extra busy. Once I forgot 2 nights in a row. So this wouldn't have been conclusive data.

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

u got off lucky. daughter found the Santa wrapping paper one year. lined everything up and did a full presentation for us.

Did you take the money back?

That one's a keeper!

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 is why you need to pay more attention to your kids. Proper maintenance helps to maintain the resale value.

This is why you should check under their pillow every night, just in case they do some smart shit like this.

Why is this NSFW? It’s a simple experiment, but I doubt the kid did it.

Grats to the kid. It developed the ability for critical thinking early. Time to admit the lie and stop using fairy tales as a tool.
The next developmental step might make giving money for teeth a really cursed incentive btw. So disconnecting the reward from the loss of teeth is probably a good idea. Just increase the weekly allowance accordingly to not make it look like discoveries are punished.

Better keep that kid off social media. When he sees some of the rampant "logic" he'll go insane.

that screams of Rebecca

Tooth fairy can read minds. Don't try to deceive her again, or she will send her cousin, the tongue demon.

Wow Rogue Dad's kid really did an epic science! Heckin awesomesauce

We (sibling and I ) thought we were smart and did something similar with Santa when we were kids. We were then told “fine Christmas is canceled then” I can tell you we became believers full of Christmas spirit really quick.