![]() Footnote 1 When Bear got to school, he showed his tooth to Mr. He said that, before you go to sleep, you put your baby tooth under your pillow, and then the Tooth Fairy comes and takes the tooth away and leaves a present in its place, such as some money, a new book, or crayons. Then Fox told Franklin about the Tooth Fairy. All the way to school Franklin wondered why Bear wanted to keep his old tooth, especially if he was going to get a brand-new grown-up tooth. It makes room for my grown-up teeth.” Franklin ran his tongue around his gums and they were completely toothless: “I don’t have any teeth.”īear wrapped his tooth in some tissue and put it in his backpack. How are you going to tell your mother?” But Bear just laughed: “My teeth are supposed to fall out. Franklin was startled, because the tooth had a little blood on it. Then he gave it a tug and out it came he had lost his first tooth. ![]() While waiting for the school bus, Bear put his paw in his mouth and wiggled a tooth back and forth. But one morning Franklin discovered a way that he and Bear were different. He and Bear were the same age, lived in the same neighborhood, and liked the same games. He had lots of good friends, and a best friend named Bear. So I picked it up and began to read it.įranklin and the Tooth Fairy tells the story of a young turtle who was old enough to count by twos and tie his shoes. One of them especially caught my eye- Franklin and the Tooth Fairy (Bourgeois and Clark 1996)-because I had been having a lot of dental work done over the past several months. I began rummaging through the box and found that there were a dozen or so books about a turtle named Franklin. There were magazines in the racks intended for adults but I noticed that there was a large box of books for children on the floor next to where I was sitting. ![]() I (Donald Capps) was sitting in the waiting room of our local optometry establishment while my wife was having an eye examination. This article has its genesis in a somewhat trivial experience. We view the rituals associated with the Tooth Fairy legend as a mythological means of enabling children to address and work through these psychological issues. We take note of Erikson’s suggestion that this is, ontogenetically speaking, the experience that is portrayed in the biblical story of the Fall and expulsion from the Garden in Genesis 3. Erikson, as we focus especially on the role that teeth play in the loss of the original unity between the infant and its mother. We also draw on the clinical observations of Erik H. Our particular concern is with some of the psychological issues that are associated with the development of teeth in the second stage of infancy. Drawing on various children’s books, we present this legend and these rituals as among the many legends and rituals found around the world for dealing with the loss of baby teeth in early childhood. In this article, we focus on the Tooth Fairy legend that emerged in the United States and Britain in the nineteenth century and on the bedtime rituals associated with it.
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