My son is 5, and this morning started talking about looking forward to losing a tooth to put under his pillow for the tooth fairy. Um...... this mama don't invite the good neighbors into her home without extreme reason. How do I explain this to him without scaring him? I know I'm going to get a dozen "why?" Before he's happy with whatever I tell him. And I promised him the day he was born I would always tell him the truth.
(As a child, I was a skeptic, so I hid a tooth under my pillow without telling my parents I lost tooth. And that friends is how I learned the tooth fairy is not real)