That tooth was hill-billyish for a long-long time. She let my Dad *twist* it out with a napkin (shudder/ wince). He did that for me too when I was little. It must be a man skill...a woman would go through childbirth (even multiple times), but never twist a loose tooth out with a napkin.
i had a baby-sitter when i was little that would pay you a whole dollar to let her come at you with a kleenex and pull the dangling teeth.
she hated seeing kids wobble them back and forth.
then she'd put it in an envelope and you'd get to take it home and put it under your pillow for the tooth fairy! it was hard to pass up a double payment for each tooth!
Dad never twisted the tooth out. Not with my loosies, anyway. He just pinched my gums with his mammoth fingers and pulled downward to release the tooth from the thread of tissue holding it in my mouth (because it was always hill-billyish before I let him pull it out, too). Because he pinched my gums, I never even felt pulling or pain or anything. You're a bit of a baby-pants, Erin. Um, yeah. A big baby-pants.
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She looks so cute w/that big gap. And so proud of her missing tooth, too.
Was it a traumatic loss or did it go gently?
That tooth was hill-billyish for a long-long time. She let my Dad *twist* it out with a napkin (shudder/ wince). He did that for me too when I was little. It must be a man skill...a woman would go through childbirth (even multiple times), but never twist a loose tooth out with a napkin.
i had a baby-sitter when i was little that would pay you a whole dollar to let her come at you with a kleenex and pull the dangling teeth.
she hated seeing kids wobble them back and forth.
then she'd put it in an envelope and you'd get to take it home and put it under your pillow for the tooth fairy! it was hard to pass up a double payment for each tooth!
Dad never twisted the tooth out. Not with my loosies, anyway. He just pinched my gums with his mammoth fingers and pulled downward to release the tooth from the thread of tissue holding it in my mouth (because it was always hill-billyish before I let him pull it out, too). Because he pinched my gums, I never even felt pulling or pain or anything. You're a bit of a baby-pants, Erin. Um, yeah. A big baby-pants.
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