My 6-year-old son lost his first baby tooth last month. My husband and I had never really talked to him about the tooth fairy — he’s our oldest, so it was the first lost tooth for us too. But later ...

When it comes to childhood magic, parents face an onslaught of obstacles involved in keeping up the ruse. My son’s first loose tooth popped out right before bedtime, and of course neither my wife or I ...

TikTok creator AzeniaVe wanted to think outside the box when it came to motivating her son to do his chores ...

"OH, NOOO!" my 7-year-old son recently shrieked from his bedroom in the middle of the night, the walls echoing with his sobs. I jumped out of bed half asleep, racing in with all my might, terrified of ...

My brother, “Steve,” is a very practical man. He’s a good father but he’s not very sentimental and I would never expect him to do things like Elf on the Shelf hijinks or sprinkling fairy dust when the ...

2."My son refused to let Santa, the Easter Bunny, or the tooth fairy in the house. He would cry and get so nervous and anxious. The tooth fairy left the money in the mailbox. I still have his little ...

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Losing a baby tooth is a pretty big milestone for parents and kids alike. But it can also be… somewhat traumatic, as kids become aware that it’s possible to “lose” a piece of your body. Young brains ...

“When we went to South Africa, my 5-year-old twin girls had loose teeth, so I stopped at foreign exchange at the airport and asked for the largest bill they had in any currency. Only one lost her ...

"Why was she acting this way when a childhood myth had been busted? When she just discovered she'd been lied to for a decade?" This, I have interpreted as when something absolutely goes to sh*t, use ...

Evolette, 7, told her mom that she wanted a mask for the Tooth Fairy partly because "she has to enter my 6ft bubble to get the tooth from under my pillow" Even the Tooth Fairy is taking the right ...