The Tooth Fairy Gave My Kid Beef Jerky Again
The Jen Fulwiler Show
Jen Fulwiler
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
We review my most disastrous tooth fairy gifts so that I can make an important point about decision fatigue in parenting.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tooth Ferry came to our house last night. |
| 0:03.0 | And if you've ever wondered about dentistry, |
| 0:07.0 | if you've ever wondered about the biological processes |
| 0:11.0 | that lead young children to processes that |
| 0:15.0 | biological processes that lead young children to lose their teeth. |
| 0:17.0 | I'll tell you what it is that triggers that biological mechanism. |
| 0:21.0 | It is when their parents are the most exhausted. When the mother reaches the |
| 0:28.6 | point in her week where she has nothing left to give. |
| 0:34.2 | And also there's nothing in the house, |
| 0:36.2 | no extra toys or goodies, anything of interest in the house. |
| 0:43.2 | house is running in survival mode and the mother may even make a statement out loud. |
| 0:49.9 | I'm so exhausted and I can't wait to just take a bubble bath and have some time for me tonight. |
| 0:57.0 | That sends vibrations into the house that causes any loose teeth in her children to fall out immediately. |
| 1:07.2 | And then it's mommy I lost a tooth. The tooth fairy is coming tonight. |
| 1:10.7 | That's what this podcast episode is about. What you are about to hear is that nothing |
| 1:16.2 | about the tooth fairy system works for me. It's the worst possible fit. I should have never introduced this into our house. |
| 1:26.0 | And I tried, tried by the way to get out of it. Last night I was like, oh, social distancing, COVID, the Tooth Fairy cannot come right now. |
| 1:39.4 | And my kids are like, she's magic. |
| 1:41.6 | She's immune to COVID. she can't spread it. |
| 1:43.6 | Fairy figures don't are not carriers of COVID germs. |
| 1:48.6 | See and that's the thing when you live in when you deal in fantasy land |
| 1:52.4 | you can't win they're always going to be able to come |
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