My Daughter Is Sad About Her (Baby) Tooth Falling Out.

How sweet. I would use this opportunity to share with her that this is one of the important steps to becoming a woman. Our bodies go through lots of changes as we get older, and this is one of them. She's getting to be such a big girl! {with my boys, I give them examples, like they will start to grow hair (see how Daddy has to shave everyday?)} This seems to make them excited about the changes their bodies go through. As she gets older, you will add to that list as needed.

I don't know what you've already told her, in general.
But, if this were my child, I would show her some pictures
of older girls and teen girls and grown-up women.
I would show pictures that show really nice smiles,
with even, pretty teeth.
I would explain that as we get older,
various parts of our bodies change . . .
some parts get bigger, some parts get longer, etc.
And the teeth . . . . since teeth can't grow,
we have little teeth when we are little people
and we have bigger teeth when we are bigger people.
Show her some pictures of when she was smaller.
Point out how much bigger she is now.
Remind her of all the things she can do now
that she didn't used to be able to do.
Point out that as she grows, she'll be able to do more things.
So . . . . the little teeth need to go to make room for the big teeth to come in.
Let us know how it goes.

When I was a kid, I wanted to keep some of my baby teeth too. After one would fall out, my mom would help me write a letter to the tooth fairy asking if I could please keep the tooth. I'd put the letter under my pillow with the tooth and in the morning along with a quarter, I'd find the tooth in a little container. I think my parents probably washed the tooth before putting it in the container for me. As a kid, I had a box where I'd put things I thought were special (pretty rocks, squished pennies, etc) and I'd just add the tooth to that collection. It was funny too look through that box of "treasures" when I was older.

Why is she worried? Looks? Pain? Eating? I keep telling my daughter that the more baby teeth she looses, the more grown up she is! She hasn't really been worried about it though. She's just excited that she gets $!

Make this tooth fairy visit a great one when it happens. She may go to bed upset, but be amazed when she wakes up! Leave a pile of 'fairy dust' that looks like the tooth fairy spilled some. (Make-up glitter.) Before she loses it, go get her a new 'tooth pillow' that has a spot to leave her tooth for the fairy. My sister-in-law got my daughter an embroidered one that is adorable.

Maybe get her a 'girl book' about growing up that you can read together. I found a great one at Target of all places.

My girls LOVE that the tooth fairy sprinkles fairy dust on them to wake up to though, and the 'spilled' dust sometimes is a huge hit! ;)

Sometimes kids pick up what we feel and then mirror that feeling.
Do you have any pictures of you when you had semi-toothless smiles?
The baby teeth fall out because new adult teeth dissolved the roots of the baby tooth before the new tooth emerges.
Just tell her you are excited she's growing up and you wonder what the tooth fairy will bring her (10 quarters in our house - it wasn't a lot of money, but all the clinking coins seemed like a lot of treasure).
My son use to worry about losing a tooth at school because he was afraid it would get lost before he could bring it home. It was never a problem. The teacher had little containers to put shed teeth in and would send them home.