"Moon Shyne" wrote in message
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"'Kate" wrote in message
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On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 22:14:55 -0500, "-=RaOuL=-"
the following was posted in blue dry erase
marker:

How many teeth does a kid have, and how long do they drag out the
process
of loosing them?

20 and it depends but usually before 13, 14 years old. Some kids start
getting wisdom teeth at around 15-16 years old.

Aww! No fair... Amie is JUST starting to get them, nevermind lose them!

We noticed she had not one, but both bottom teeth coming in, and this was
when we were at the hospital on Feb. 2...
I have 15-16 years of teething, losing teeth and getting them back again?
Bran hasn't lost a tooth yet, but he's only 5... Zach just lost his first
tooth recently, but he's already 6.

My 12 year-old just lost *another* tooth! Third one this year, if I'm
counting right. I'm starting to wonder if he's buying teeth from the
other
kids at school and bringing them here for the tooth fairy to pay him
for. I
guess I should ask some of the local parents what the going rates are
for
teeth in this town - maybe the tooth fairy's generosity here has sparked
an
inventive entrepreneurial spirit in the boy!

-=RaOuL=-

If you're counting right. :-) You counted? Impressive!

I'd probably be counting the loss to my change purse more than
anything... I have no idea what the going rate for teeth is, but I think
I recall getting 25¢ when I was younger, and I recall getting a whole
dollar when I was older. I recall a little girl, oh, maybe about 8? She
came to our garage sale in the fall and she bought something, and she had
said it was her tooth fairly money. Sure enough, she was missing a
tooth, and I was shocked to see that she had a 5 dollar bill. I didn't
ask, but I started to pray a lot and prayed that the Tooth Fairy's going
rate is NOT $5 a pop!
It makes me wonder if *she* or *they* can provide some sort of sliding
scale, subsidized tooth fairy rates or ANYTHING

Going rate for teeth here is $1 if it falls out, and $5 if it gets knocked
out (happened twice, one for each kid) - oh, and $5 for any that have to
be pulled (try to picture a kid with double bottom front teeth - new ones
coming in behind the baby teeth........ loads of fun)

And I remember one month, my kid lost 3 teeth within 2 weeks..... and off
to the dentist we went, to see why her teeth were dropping out of her
mouth.........

Cause her adult teeth were all coming in and pushing 'em out....... sigh

It happens.




Rates in my house were a solid Loonie... I didn't want to promote tooth loss
LOL the oldest was one for making money the easy way and if that involved
removing teeth he'd have done it LOL so we did the loonie thing... a dollar
a tooth...

My mom used to give me silver dollars when I was little... I never hear of
silver dollars anymore... Do they still exist?