The tooth fairy

While many kids, including my almost 5 year old son (and also some adults), find a great degree of comfort and joy in the fantasy world, there are kids that find the magical and mysterious quite disturbing. My daughter has always been too rational and too sharp to believe in these things and so when she had her first loose tooth we decided to introduce the tooth fairy concept, thinking that even though she might figure things out pretty quickly, she could still enjoy the fun. Some parents really put time and effort to prepare the setting for a full experience, like using glitters (left over from arts and crafts) on the window seal, buy a roll of golden dollars from the bank, prepare some pre wrapped presents and there is a long list to it. But kids chat and basically tell everything to each other, and my daughter came back from school one day pretty upset after a friend had told her that the tooth fairy replaced the tooth from under her pillow with a present. "I don't want the tooth fairy to take away my tooth, it is my tooth!" she exclaimed. "And why do I have to put it under my pillow? Can't I keep it in a box in my closet?" she asked. "Well of course you can" I try to calm her down "this is your tooth, you decide what you want to do with it". "But will I still get the present?" not that I was surprised to hear that..."yes, you will still get your present, don't worry". So, out tooth fairy is a little different than the other tooth fairies, what could I say? But then came some more questions; How does the tooth fairy know it when a child looses a tooth? How will she know where we live? How does she decide what present to give? Does that depend on the size of the tooth? And lastly, will we allow a stranger fairy to go in our house while we are all asleep? Now for that I wasn't ready... A few days afterwards my daughter's tooth came out and she put it in a special box in her closet, exactly like SHE wanted. Then she told us EXACTLY what she wanted the tooth fairy to get for her. The next morning she woke up very happy to find her present. Then she came down stairs and said with glee: "I know who my tooth fairy is!". "Really?!" I asked. And she said: "yes, it's daddy!"