Tuesday, 09 October 2012
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Tell Me Tuesday: Pulling Teeth
Before the Tooth Fairy visits, the tooth has to come out and get hidden beneath the pillow, right? But to get that tooth out, how do you do it?
Do you wiggle until it falls out? Do you grab hold and yank? Tie a length of string to the tooth and the other end to a doorknob and slam the door closed?
Tell us: are you a puller or a fall-out-on-its-own parent?
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Comments (13)
i have a feeling i will be a let it fall out type of parent :)
When I was a kid loose teeth bothered me so much I wanted them out asap. I would wiggle them constantly until they were loose enough to pull out without much pain lol. You can't leave them in too long though, sometimes they just need to be pulled. Once my nephew had a loose tooth he refused to let anyone touch and after a couple weeks it started going rotten so they had to pull it despite his protests. By then it was hanging by a string of gums so it was loose enough to do so.
I haven't had to pull any teeth yet. But when I was small, my stepdad would wiggle them out for me until I was brave enough to do it on my own. I'll probably do the same when my boy starts losing his baby teeth.
My parents always told me to just keep wiggling it non stop and in no time it'd fall out. Which was true for all my baby teeth except one (which never fell out and ended up abscessing). I was always way to scared to try and yank it out if it wasn't very lose, so i just messed with it until i could pull it out with little effort. I'll probably do the same with my boys, i can't see myself pulling it for them, unless they asked.
None of my kids have lost any teeth yet, but seeing as how they freak if I even so much as ask to look at a boo-boo, I'm sure their jaws will clamp shut once their teeth start wiggling. I don't see any reason to yank out their teeth unless they ask me to or the tooth rots before it falls out.
a little of both, my ypunger kids teeth take forever!
I used to wiggle my teeth until they were loose enough for me or my dad to pull out.
Dad would tell me he was just going to wiggle on the thing, and voila, in a few minutes, it came out... My kids preferred pulling their own out, and we had a special tooth pillow. One year we took off for work and school, me forgetting the silly tooth, so I put in under the pillow that night. An old lady friend at church asked her about the tooth fairy, and she said, "She came, but she was late this year."
It has been a battle at my house. My 6 year old has lost 6 teeth now. The first 5, we took out for her. We did it because they were each SO loose I was afraid she was going to choke in her sleep. One of them was starting to turn grey (it was dying in her mouth, WAY past time to take it out).
With each one, she was afraid to take it out herself or to touch it. I watched her brushing her teeth, and she was barely touching the loose tooth. Here's the bad part: After reasoning with her failed, I gently told her I was going to take the tooth out, even if she didn't want me to for her protection because I love her (this was the greying tooth). She tried to get away from me and I held her, I told her I loved her and I needed to take care of her, that I knew she was scared, but it would only take a second and then everything would be ok. She started crying. As I said, I was holding her. When her mouth was opened because she was crying so hard, I took the quick opportunity to bare-handed grab the tooth and I got it out. There was no give, it basically fell out into my hand, and didn't bleed. Took less than a second.
I felt bad about it because I had, in a way, touched her without permission. But I didn't know what else to do. I had tried every other avenue, this process of trying to reason with her about it had been going on for over a week. She was upset with me, and that was ok. We discussed it at length before and after, and I believe in the end she understood.
The good news is, 3 days ago, her 6th tooth came out and she did it on her own this time. But boy, this process has been traumatic for us. But what else do you do if the tooth is dying and your child is too scared to let you help her?
I pulled out three of my teeth in one night when I was little. Just kinda pushed them back and forth.
As soon they were loose enough ( I could wiggle them) I would take my thumb and or whatever finger could do the job and get it in between my tooth and gum and started to pry them out/ wiggling them off the root. Was a ten minute process but I think its part of the reason my teeth are straight. Nothing to get in the way for the big teeth. Two of my sibling that just let them wiggle out/ fall out had a tooth grow on top of the baby tooth. So such a thing leaving them in to long. Didn't know the tooth would rot though! that is nice to thing to know.
@sarahsmurfette@xanga - I am pretty sure what you described is exactly what we'll have to do with our daughter once she starts losing her teeth (which should be soon, she's 6 years old). She won't even let us so much as look at some of her injuries. She gets so freaked out over every little thing, and it takes a lot of will power not to disregard the way she feels when I know she's overreacting.
Mine just always fell out on their own. and I have a solution for those that are lose but won't fall out on their own without pulling; eating jolly ranchers. Me and several of my friends in elementary school had loose teeth come out when eating jolly ranchers since they're so sticky lol.