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From: suze@terak.UUCP (Suzanne Barnett)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: Re: $$$$$ for TEETH
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Date: Mon, 18-Nov-85 12:14:34 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 18 12:14:34 1985
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> 
> 	Someone recently asked for the going rate for toofs [sic] that are 
> put under the pillow.  At our home, the six year old has just lost his 
> first two teeth.  In my day, it was a nickle or dime.  But Ra, (his name) 
> told his mother and myself that "ALL THE KIDS receive at least 50 cents 
> when they loose their toofs." 

I always got a dime. I had friends that got a quarter and
others that got a dollar. And this was over twenty years ago.
My step kids get a quarter. Don't you wish this level of
inflation held for everything?

> 	And for what it's worth, the best way to pull his teeth has turned
> out to be: 

My parents NEVER pulled my teeth. They would occassionally
"help" if I'd ask, but certainly not initiate the issue. (My
dad did joke about doorknobs and such, but we knew he was
kidding.) The tooth will come out with very little pain when
it is ready. If there is a lot of pain, the tooth isn't ready
to come out. I will NOT pull my children's teeth; if asked, I
may help loosen it, but, as was done with me, this will have
to be at the child's request, I won't initiate it.

As for rewarding the loss of baby teeth, I agree with those
who have said it serves as a means of impressing the
importance of permanent teeth and, in contemporary American society is
a rite of growing up. Should the kids lose permanent teeth, I
doubt the tooth fairy will choose to visit.
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Suzanne Barnett-Scott

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