Funniest Stories About Parents Pretending To Be The Tooth Fairy For Their Kids

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Mar 19, 2021 1:30 PM EDT

It's pretty hard to convince kids that the tooth fairy exists. They've evolved, becoming more attuned to their parents' games and tricks. Nonetheless, parents keep trying to keep up the facade of the tooth fairy through clever tactics. A Reddit user asked parents about their experiences pretending to be the tooth fairy, and boy, did these parents deliver with their stories. Scroll down for the funniest tooth fairy stories below. 

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    Organism - Bananapeel62 2 days ago 2 @2 Once, my son got the bright idea to con the tooth fairy. He made playdoh teeth and left them. As he was totally 3 naive about this, he shared his plan with me. He anticipated untold riches! However, the fake teeth only yielded fake money - chocolate coins in gold coloured foil!
    via u/Bananapeel62
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    Mammal - CataractsOfSamsMum 2 days ago 3 One of mine lost a tooth on Christmas Eve. We told her if the Tooth Fairy and Santa bumped into each other we would all be sucked into an alternative dimension, so she had to stay quiet in bed no matter what.
    via u/CataractsOfSamsMum
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    Font - denimuprising 2 days ago I do it at bedtime, we listen to a chapter of an audio book and she's usually passed out in 5 minutes with my arm under her pillow and wakes up in the morning with an bank transaction receipt from the National Bank of Fairies with a credit to her bank acct and a little zip pouch with a new toothbrush and the horrible smelling bubblegum mouthwash she likes
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    Font - Tippas 2 days ago Sleight of hand. We used to have a little drawstring bag for putting the tooth in, When my kids teeth fell out I would 'go get the bag' but at the same time I would secretly wrap the money in kitchen roll and then get them to wrap their tooth in a similar piece and hand it to me to put in the little bag. Pretending it was the tooth I would put the wrapped up money in the bag instead, hide the wrapped tooth in my pocket, tie the drawstring and get them to place it under t
    via u/Tippas
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    Font - HorrorSorbet 2 days ago When my daughter was 8, she put the tooth under her pillow. Well I forgot to take the tooth, and leave the money. So when I woke up I did the tooth fairy thing. I. Got. Busted. At that point her world collapsed. She realized there was no tooth fairy, no Santa and and no Easter Bunny. My heart broke.
    via u/HorrorSorbet
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    Font - messicanamerican 2 days ago When my daughter lost her tooth I completely forgot to do the swap and she told me the next morning, I made a letter from the tooth fairy explaining how she couldn't leave her money because of how messy her room was that she hurt herself trying and would come back when her room was all tidy. Gave me time to get some cash and a reason for her to tidy her room.
    via u/messicanamerican
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    Hair - adairtd 2 days ago I tell them the Tooth fairy doesn't do house visits right now due to Covid, so they have to give me the teeth so I can mail it in and get the deposit electronically.
    via u/adairtd
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    Font - negcap 2 days ago I have 3 kids and it's not hard to do it without waking them. Once the kid lost a tooth at night and we didn't have anything smaller than a $20 so we told him that means he lost a super special tooth. The other parents in his class heard about it and were annoyed with us bc their kids thought it was the going rate. When my middle kid got money for his first tooth he tried really hard to loosen another to make a quick buck. He swallowed it at lunch and was so upset but we
    via u/negcap
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    Font - taxdude1966 2 days ago So one time daughter's tooth fell out and the tooth fairy completely forgot that night. She was upset, but her mom explained that sometimes the tooth fairy gets busy and she will Come the next night - which will all be good because she will pay an extra 50c to make up for being late. This satisfied my daughter. About three months later my daughter announces that she lost another tooth a month ago, that it has been under her pillow for a month and the tooth fairy cle
    via u/taxdude1966
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    Font - Ok-Personality9386 2 days ago S My daughter (younger than my son) saw her big bro getting loot for his newly lost tooth. She was maybe 3 years old and wanted in on the action.. I caught her putting something under her pillow one evening and said, honey what are you hiding under your pillow? She looked at me and whispered "magic coins". I said uhhh, what? She had placed Chuck E. Cheese tokens under pillow and when I asked why, she said that if she left some money that a secret fairy would
    via u/Personality9386
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    Mammal - copperfrog42 2 days ago I once gave my kid fifty cents worth of dimes...He wanted his tooth back. I told him to write a note to the tooth fairy and he got his " refund". I still have the note...
    via u/copperfrog42
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    Font - Griffle78 2 days ago Years ago, my son decided he was going to catch the tooth fairy on camera by setting up his tablet to record in his room. When I walked in, I saw what he had done and walked over to it and knocked it face down. See, his tablet recorded in 30 second increments. So standing behind the tablet, I took a picture with flash on so it would light up a room like the tooth fairy. Counted to 30 and stepped out. The next morning I scrolled to find the places with me in it and del
    via u/Griffle78

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