I did this as a kid as well, though I never confronted my parents about it. I just quietly died a little inside as the whimsical magic of my childhood was eclipsed by the cold truth of our reality.

Spoiler: wait until he finds out about God.

I’d always put the money in an envelope with my kids names written to be all magical and fancy looking but didn’t try especially hard to disguise my handwriting. When my daughter was probably eight she just casually informed me how much she had noticed the tooth fairy’s handwriting looked just like mine 🤔 she’s smart, it both let me know she knew what was up but was still low key enough the gravy train kept coming for the rest of her teeth lol

This is why you should check under their pillow every night, just in case they do some smart shit like this.

Did you take the money back?

Wow Rogue Dad’s kid really did an epic science! Heckin awesomesauce

Last Christmas my daughter kept getting closer to figuring things out until one night she cryptically said, “I can’t wait until I’m an adult so I can learn about grown up secrets.”

“What kind of secrets are those?”

“You know, like if Santa wasn’t real or something.”

“Well if Santa wasn’t real, then we’d definitely want to keep that secret from kids like your little brother, so we’d never ever talk about it.”

“Oh yeah.”

Then she never mentioned it again.

It may have been our fault for doing way too many holiday activities. She must have met four or five different Santas that year.

Why is this marked NSFW? I was expecting to derail the train.

Well yeah kid; how the fuck is the Tooth Fairy™ delivery guy supposed to know if your parents don’t sign-in to their localtoothfairy.com app?

I tried this as a kid, but i lost the tooth after day 2 and bungled the whole thing

It’s a valuable lesson for him to learn the hard way.

Having to route your request through the proper channels to get things done.

Wrong lesson, kid. Hide other people’s teeth under your pillow & keep telling your parents you lost another tooth. Infinite cash.

Why is this NSFW? It’s a simple experiment, but I doubt the kid did it.

Conscientious of you to add the spoiler tag, but I hope we don’t have many tooth fairy believers on Lemmy.

“sorry to disappoint you, Timmy, but the tooth fairy only comes once she knows the parents are aware their child is about to get some money/a visit”

I’m very surprised there are parents telling their kids about the tooth fairy that can’t recover the story when confronted by their kid with such evidence.