# My son, Charlie lost his first tooth today, in a most spectacular way! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 15, 2004, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-charlie-lost-his-first-tooth-today-in-a-most-spectacular-way/260002 "2004-08-15T21:57:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2004, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-charlie-lost-his-first-tooth-today-in-a-most-spectacular-way/260002/1 "2004-08-15T21:57:01Z")
Tesoro, the gentle old gelding he was riding spooked at something invisible to the rest of us and bolted. Charlie managed to stay on for a while despite losing one rein and one stirrup. Finally he was thown. He landed in fairly soft (yet stickery) ground minus his lower left front tooth. It wasn’t really even loose, but some how it got knocked out when he fell. He was pretty shaken up, but was more scared by the blood than anything else. We got some ice and when the bleeding stopped he got back on Tesoro (this time in a nice safe paddock) and rode him a little bit. We live by the rule, “if you fall off you get back on, even if it’s only for a minute or two.” He was so brave! Of course we can’t find the tooth in the long grass of the pasture (sniff, sniff, I wanted to keep it) but I assured him the tooth fairy would know what happened. I also told him that he would have the very BEST story to tell all his friends when school started next week. I know this sounds bad, but I’m really glad Charlie finally had his first fall off a horse. Really and truly, it gets easier once you had your first fall. You’re no longer quite so scared of it. He said he might want to take a week or so off riding, and I said that was fine. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2004, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-charlie-lost-his-first-tooth-today-in-a-most-spectacular-way/260002/2 "2004-08-15T22:31:44Z")
What do they say aobut falling off a horse? Get straight back on? Glad to hear he came out of it OK. So, what’s the tooth fairy’s going rate nowdays? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2004, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-charlie-lost-his-first-tooth-today-in-a-most-spectacular-way/260002/3 "2004-08-15T23:00:57Z")
Whatever the going rate may be, you… er, uh, “she,” ought to leave it somewhere conspicuous in the field where he lost the tooth. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2004, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-charlie-lost-his-first-tooth-today-in-a-most-spectacular-way/260002/4 "2004-08-16T02:35:34Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > So, what’s the tooth fairy’s going rate nowdays? Well, I believe there _is_ in fact a premium if the tooth loss was incurred in a spectacular fashion (hit in mouth by baseball, bicycle wipeout, jumping off roof trying to fly…) ---
**Author:** ![smartini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/22d042/32.png) [@smartini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smartini)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2004, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-charlie-lost-his-first-tooth-today-in-a-most-spectacular-way/260002/5 "2004-08-16T03:01:00Z")
🙂 Glad _Charlie_ got back on the horse! 🙂 Glad _mom_ survived! Enjoy the tooth-fairy visit 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2004, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-charlie-lost-his-first-tooth-today-in-a-most-spectacular-way/260002/6 "2004-08-16T15:16:28Z")
Well, this morning Charlie found $5 from the tooth fairy. I told him she must have thought he was really brave. Tuesday we go back out to my friends place where we board our horses. I think I will have him distracted in the barn and go out and see if I can find the tooth. in any case I think I will leave some coins scattered on the ground where he unexpectedly dismounted. ---
**Author:** ![smartini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/22d042/32.png) [@smartini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smartini)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2004, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-charlie-lost-his-first-tooth-today-in-a-most-spectacular-way/260002/7 "2004-08-16T16:09:37Z")
_unexpectedly dismounted_🙂 I like that…glad it all worked out ok and I hope you find the tooth! ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2004, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-charlie-lost-his-first-tooth-today-in-a-most-spectacular-way/260002/8 "2004-08-16T16:15:20Z")
Man that tooth fairy rocks! She is probably the only entity in business keeping up with inflation. Your story reminds me of how I lost my two front teeth: both at the same time in one of those kiddie pools with the thin plastic bottom. I wiped out, landed (teeth first) on a sprinkler head that was under the plastic, and came up screaming! My teeth were floating on the water, I’ll never forget it! Your son probably won’t forget his either. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2004, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-charlie-lost-his-first-tooth-today-in-a-most-spectacular-way/260002/9 "2004-08-16T20:15:33Z")
You’ve got to put the money out in the field someplace and note under the pillow telling him where to find it. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2004, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-charlie-lost-his-first-tooth-today-in-a-most-spectacular-way/260002/10 "2004-08-17T02:20:55Z")
> [@Rhiannon8404](#): > > Well, this morning Charlie found $5 from the tooth fairy. I told him she must have thought he was really brave. Great! With dollar signs in his eyes, now he’s gonna be doing swan dives off the back of every horse! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2004, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-charlie-lost-his-first-tooth-today-in-a-most-spectacular-way/260002/11 "2004-08-17T12:19:45Z")
My son lost his first tooth a while back in a somewhat less than spectacular fashion. It had been loose for a while so his older sister twisted it out of him, pretty much the same way you’d twist the stem off of an apple. Pretty gruesome if you ask me. I think I prefer the thrown from the horse method, as long as it doesn’t become the standard for all of the teeth. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2004, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-charlie-lost-his-first-tooth-today-in-a-most-spectacular-way/260002/12 "2004-08-17T12:27:28Z")
A measly fin? The kids in my nabe get $20 just for a run-of-the-mill extraction. Of course, Charlie’s got his own horse, so it’s tough to say which kids are more spoiled 😃