Idina Menzel’s nine year-old son, Walker, recently got mad at the Tooth Fairy when “she” forgot to put the money under his pillow one night. This has happened to me too! I think I said that the Tooth Fairy was busy sometimes but that she would remember another night. At some point I still kept giving money but my son knew it was me. Sidenote: did you see that movie The Tooth Fairy with The Rock? That came out in 2010 and was one of my favorite kids movies that I saw in the theater, surely because of the star.
We know this happened because Idina tweeted about it and it blew up. [via People]
The tooth fairy didn’t show up last night. Mom put tooth in tissue and son hid it under pillow. Then mom fell asleep and woke up this morning to son with tears. “Tooth fairy didn’t come” That tooth fairy better get her shit together. #badmoms
— Idina Menzel (@idinamenzel) January 15, 2019
Some of the top responses to this cracked me up so hard, particularly the one about Elf on a Shelf. (We never did this. It seemed so goofy to me. I mean I bought the thing but ended up donating it as I couldn’t bring myself to use it. If you do it with your kids though that’s cool! It just seems like too much work to remember and come up with creative ideas.)
Sounds like the tooth fairy was as reliable as our Elf on a Shelf. Dude sat in the same place for like a week.
— Jeremy Onyshczak (@jerkat429) January 15, 2019
You could blame the weather, that’s quite clever.
It’s happen to all of us moms. I’ve even blamed the weather. The tooth fairy can’t fly in the rain. Lol
— Alena McGlone (@baakc) January 15, 2019
I think this is the best solution!
Sometime the money from the tooth fairy falls under the bed and they might have missed it. 😉
— LaChanze (@laChanze) January 15, 2019
Put the money under his bed and “accidentally” find it. I must have slipped out from under his pillow and onto the floor.
— Lisa Stahl (@LMG411) January 15, 2019
One mom wrote like a whole apology note. Props to you creative crafty moms like this. That’s not me.
We JUST had this happen night before last!! I told my kid she missed the deadline bc her tooth fell out at bedtime. White lie and made up for it last night. #badmomsunite pic.twitter.com/6gsPQb8BjZ
— Mother of Dragons (@emma_rose77) January 15, 2019
Also a perspective from a kid’s POV!
LOL my “tooth fairy” forgot to come several times, I ended up profiting from it because she always left a little more the next night! pic.twitter.com/ufzUk4UwNp
— EB🦖🦕 (@ErikaBuis) January 15, 2019
I don’t quite remember when my son stopped believing in Santa Claus and The Tooth Fairy, but I think it was around the same age as Indina Menzel’s son. It’s a sad passage when kids stop believing and you don’t realize the significance of it until later. I would rather my kid get disappointed by a fictional character than write them off entirely, at least when they’re young.
Photos credit: WENN
Ha! We’ve all been there. I don’t think my daughter ever believed in the Tooth Fairy but she did believe in the money I’d tape to the wall above her bed! Once I did forget, told her to close her eyes, I taped the money in its usual place and left the room. I then heard her cute little voice exclaim, “My money!” Warms my heart to this day.
I asked my 35 y o son how old he was when he stopped believing in Santa and the like. He figures he was around 9 or 10! I said I was amazed I could keep it up that long…he said I was really good and when I did forget or screw up, my recoveries were believable. I think he probably knew at 9, and being clever, kept it going till I knew he knew LOL !!1
When we forgot, we always helped out by doing a more thorough search and found some extra for the sloppy fairy lol.
yeah, I had to text the tooth fairy to tell her she’d forgotten. Money showed up the next night. I also had to text her when my son lost a tooth swimming to tell her she had to dive for it.
We had a mouse that ran by my kid’s door in the middle of the night—she screamed until I convinced her it was the tooth fairy!
That is the cutest story!
blame it on the government shutdown
You guys. My 13 year old son still believes in Santa. Part of me is amazed, part of me is in disbelief. I know he hears the truth from other kids but it just doesn’t stick. I feel like I need to validate what they’re saying but I haven’t had the heart yet.
He’s NINE and still playing this?
Fine, but remind him next year when he gets a GF.