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The Tooth Fairy is still as good as gold
By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
This article was published February 17, 2009 at 9:59 a.m.
PHOTO BY CHRIS DEAN
Lakewood Elementary School first grader Hannah Aderholt, 7, shows her missing tooth.
First-graders Hannah Aderholt, Maddox Rousseau and Caleb Alston know all about the Tooth Fairy, as Ron Wolfe writes in Wednesday's Family section. Hannah has lost one baby tooth, Caleb three and Maddox six, and they all have gaps in their smiles. They have reason to smile, too. The Tooth Fairy has been good to them. She pays for lost teeth.
The Tooth Fairy is an important figure in the legends told at Lakewood Elementary School in North Little Rock. There's even a plan for what to do if a tooth wobbles out at school: Take it to the office, where the valuable commodity will be sealed in a plastic bag for safe transport home.
Hannah slipped her lost tooth under her pillow for the Tooth Fairy to find. Maddox left his most recent money-maker on the nightstand. Caleb tucked his in a little box.
They all cashed in - and will again - and again - as the beneficiaries of a custom so old, nobody knows where it started. Lose a baby tooth, let the Tooth Fairy have it, and she will leave a payment based on some cryptic idea of what's fair.
Read tomorrow's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for full details.
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The Tooth Fairy is like Tinker Bell, D.D.S., with an expense account. She makes for big, gap-toothed grins and funny lisps-pths!-pths! But the Tooth Fairy's work is essentially serious. From old times to now, she takes the scare out of losing a tooth, and she calls attention to the importance of baby teeth. The dentist is glad to have her on his team.
