I don’t know if I’d teach kids about any of the make believe tall tales tropes. I mean what did any of us really gain from Santa, tooth fairy, Easter bunny, etc.? You can have a Christmas without santa, you can have a spring day in the garden without a furry, and you most certainly need to stop glorifying a teeth thief.
It’s just fun to watch a child’s wonderment about a magical figure that does something special for them. It’s not indoctrination or anything negative. Just fun to see them happy.
That’s nice and all but to me it didn’t add anything to my childhood. I grew up extremely poor so any gift was the efforts of my moms hard work and I think kids should recognize that, and I never lost a tooth so I never had the tooth thief pop by. I don’t feel like I had less of a childhood just a more honest one where I wasn’t stalked by mythical creatures
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