During my sales career in IT, colleagues would often mention my knack for reading people. More specifically, the ability to predict whether a client was for real and sign the contract or if they were just taking us for a ride.
We would walk out of a meeting and everyone would make a punt – yay or nay?
Not sure if my colleagues were right or if I just fluked it but I would usually nail it. Even I would be surprised by my own strike rate. Obviously it would totally bum me out if the deal didn’t close.
This sharp sense of intuition didn’t broaden out to my parenting skills last weekend.
Last year, I was certain that the tooth fairy would soon be paying the boys a visit.
With great anticipation, I waited and waited. And waited.
Nothing.
So, I stopped thinking about it altogether.
Even when Nunu’s gums started to bleed around his top tooth earlier this month, we simply brushed it aside (See what I did there?)
“It’s just the new toothbrush he’s using,” we thought foolishly.
He never mentioned his tooth was sore or wobbly. So why would we even think it was time for it to fall out?
So, you can imagine my surprise when I returned back to the kids after only being an hour away – my son greeted me with a gappy grin.
It’s amazing how a child’s face completely changes when there’s a missing tooth.
He looked so much older.
It’s true. Children really do grow up in a blink of an eye. Well, in my case, in an hour.
My husband was there the entire time and while showing me the tiny baby tooth, he told me how it happened while munching on some almonds. Subsequently, he has now sworn off almonds.
Apparently, Nunu went a little quiet for a while and stopped playing. I think there was a lot of blood for a little 6 year old to handle. K-Bear even tried to make his twin bro smile and put him at ease.
Being the pathetic sop, I had a little cry, overwhelmed by this next milestone.
It came as such a big surprise to all of us but it really shouldn’t have.
So, it’s official. My intuition is completely off or temporarily on strike. When it comes to parenting, anyway. At least in the baby teeth department.
How’s your intuition? Is it always spot on? Or do you have your “off” days? What’s the going rate for tooth fairies these days?
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Our tooth fairy rate was $5 for the first tooth and either $1 or $2 for each tooth thereafter depending on what we had in our wallet at the time. I must confess the tooth fairy often forgot to come which was completely sad. I would blame the fact that it was scared of the dog and that it might come while the kids were at school and the dog was outside instead. My intuition was spot on there … the fairy was actually afraid of the dog …
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My kids’ tooth fairy days are sadly over. I used to save the really shiny new coins I occasionally received at the shops and gave these out as the tooth fairy coins. as a result my kids used to believe in the tooth fairy a lot longer as they thought mum never has such shiny coins as the tooth fairy! The going rate in our family used to be a gold coin. Each kid’s last tooth earned them a bit more because I was sentimental about it (by then they also knew who the tooth fairy was – lol).
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I was reading this thinking that maybe somehow he didn’t tell you about the tooth and then wondered why the tooth fairy hadn’t visited. Yikes! Turns out my intuition was way off. PS He looks adorable, love that snap of his new grin.
My intuition is completely useless – my GP used to always list the reasons to return or head to emergency and the last would always be ‘if your mothers intuition is telling you something’ and I’d think to myself ‘I’m seeing you, the person with the medical degree, because I have no intuition! Don’t put it back on me!!’
As for the toothfairy – what idiot thought up that racket. Our tooth fairy has forgotten a few times….extra pressure and guilt for what????
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A fiver for the first tooth and a dollar after 🙂
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A minute saved is a minute eardne, and this saved hours!
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The tooth fairy never visited me as a kid…shame coz I remember losing a fair few and struggled to get back my middle two for a year! The tooth fairy would have helped with that for sure. Kids always look so cute with missing teeth 🤓
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Such a huge occasion and quite heart breaking isn’t it?
I have a very strong intuition and always used it in my working life. Like you, my colleagues were betting in my predictions which so often came true. It’s been a bit lousy where my kids are involved. I think there’s too much emotional investment there to make it accurate.
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It’s great that it obviously didn’t bother him much before it came out Grace if he didn’t mention it.
I don’t have kids so no idea re the going rate. I still remember getting like 20c as a kid… though I once got 4 teeth removed at the dentist to get braces (a plate) and got 50c for each from the tooth fairy as a bonus!
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A BIG step there…and I can understand your tears marking a significant occasion. When our kids were kids it was a coin and left in same glass of water that the tooth fairy had lifted the tooth from. Want to know a creepy story? My mum kept a few of my baby teeth and I “still” have them.
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Not creepy at all! I’m hoping to keep the boys’ teeth 😀
Our tooth fairy was scheduled to visit on Wednesday night. When I tucked my son into bed he lifted his pillow to show me where he’d put his tooth and he was so excited. But the fairy failed to show! He was so disappointed. It broke my heart it did. We blamed the frost and thought perhaps her wings had frozen. She did turn up later that morning. Not the same and did arouse suspicion. Damn it. So I don’t know, what do you’d call that Grace? Lack of intuition or just plain Mum slackery? The guilt! It stills pains me 🙁
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What a cute toothless grin!!! I thought my intuition was working but is seems with this pregnancy it’s WAAAAAYYY off, I could have sworn I’d have the baby by now with what’s been happening! It has worked in the past, quite well.
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I like my emotions cover my judgement too much so my intuition isn’t that great with regards to people now.. Le sigh. Big parenting moment though!! I had a little sniffle when Lil Pumpkin dropped her first tooth a few months back too.. 😛
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The whole tooth thing grosses me out. I remember Maxy coming to me proudly with his tooth in his hand and me going green and wobbly! We are onto tooth number 3 now and I am slowly getting used to it- but I still can’t bring myself to do tooth fairy duty! The going rate in our house is a gold coin- seems to be well received 😉
What a milestone! It is funny how one little tooth can make such a big difference, isn’t it? But that smile (with or without the tooth) could still light up a room! At least with twins, you’ve still got a second chance to see the exit of the first tooth 🙂
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But how exciting that the tooth fairy gets to come now! I dare say kids these days get more than the 20c I got.
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