{"id":2311,"date":"2021-05-19T21:47:38","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T21:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/s37407.p1377.sites.pressdns.com\/resources\/dad-catching-the-tooth-fairy-on-camera-is-the\/"},"modified":"2021-05-19T21:47:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T21:47:38","slug":"dad-catching-the-tooth-fairy-on-camera-is-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/dad-catching-the-tooth-fairy-on-camera-is-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Dad Catching the Tooth Fairy on Camera Is the Worst Well-Meaning Parenting Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Losing the first tooth is a momentous occasion. For kids. For parents. For parents who don&rsquo;t have any cash on them. It&rsquo;s one of those sweet, innocent, loving parenting moments when kids are truly little child sponges. And parents get to be heroes masked as a mythical fairy who leaves a surprise under their pillow.<\/p><p>There&rsquo;s joy. There&rsquo;s love. There&rsquo;s magic. And there&rsquo;s deceit.<\/p><p>And this Dad just chronicled the whole fantastical experience &ndash; with a boatload of extra deceit. He super imposed a Tinkerbelle-esque tooth fairy on film footage for his son, James to see the next morning.<\/p><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"James Catches the Tooth Fairy (on Camera)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A8-U4aigvsw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><p>This dad also ends the video with the lines: &ldquo;They grow up. But not too fast if we can help it,&rdquo; and then a picture of his gorgeous, sweet one-less-toothed boy. And he asked commenters to be nice. So I will. Because I completely get the love and constant yearning to preserve a child&rsquo;s innocence.&nbsp; But I cannot condone the extreme lie.<\/p><p>I hate lying to my kids. And the whole Santa, Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy concepts are the hardest lies to tell, especially for me. I struggle with telling my kids these lies every year. My sweet innocent boy has become a sweet, knowledge-yearning 8-year old who likes to poke holes in these magical concepts. And just like James&rsquo;s dad, I can tell you, it&rsquo;s sad when it goes by too fast.<\/p><p>So I tell my little myth-buster &ldquo;Believe what you want to believe. Just don&rsquo;t ruin it for the little ones.&rdquo; But I keep the stories alive without stretching them too far &mdash; for the joy I still see on all three of their faces, which seems even brighter when they think there&rsquo;s a chance these gifts magically appeared.&nbsp;<\/p><p>But I just can&rsquo;t condone warping their innocent minds into believing this lie even more. At least when it&rsquo;s a weird phenomenon, they&rsquo;re like: Is it Mom and Dad? Or is it real? And there&rsquo;s a little sweetness in the mystery. And when your kids do find out &ndash; and they will &ndash; they will be DEVASTATED. And HORRIFIED that they defended believing in the tooth fairy to the 5<sup>th<\/sup> graders. And then they&rsquo;re MAD. And they just don&rsquo;t understand our level of deceit &ndash; because they don&rsquo;t have kids yet, and they don&rsquo;t know how fearful we are that their sweet innocence will one day fade away.<\/p><p>I love make believe. And I believe in the magic of children. But pulling out digital tricks takes the magic to a level we call trickery. And I don&rsquo;t think it&rsquo;s going to end well.<\/p><h2><strong>What do you think?<\/strong><\/h2>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Losing the first tooth is a momentous occasion. For kids. For parents. For parents who don&rsquo;t have any cash on them. It&rsquo;s one of those sweet, innocent, loving parenting moments when kids are truly little child sponges. And parents get to be heroes masked as a mythical fairy who leaves a surprise under their pillow. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/dad-catching-the-tooth-fairy-on-camera-is-the\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":716,"featured_media":13102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"enable_toc":false,"care_reviewed_by":0,"care_post_updated_flag":false,"care_updated_date":"","last_update":"2021-05-19","view_count":3306,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"member-type":[4],"vertical":[6,17],"platform":[2],"class_list":["post-2311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","member-type-all","vertical-children","vertical-child-care-advice","platform-resources"],"acf":[],"created":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/716"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2311"},{"taxonomy":"member-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/member-type?post=2311"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=2311"},{"taxonomy":"platform","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/platform?post=2311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}