For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for March 20, 2017

it’s like staying up on Christmas Eve to await Santa Claus

I am not sure why Elly is trying to bargain with Elizabeth on tooth placement. Can’t she just tell her the Tooth Fairy drops no money for kids who can’t follow the “under the pillow” rules?

I have no fault with Elizabeth’s reasoning. I would want to see what the Tooth Fairy looks like too. To a little girl, Santa Claus is an old man, the Easter Bunny is a rabbit, and that just leaves the Tooth Fairy as the only female representative in the “lie to your kids” series of mythological characters.

Elizabeth, if the Tooth Fairy can’t find your tooth, she’ll just leave. Ever think of that?

If the tooth fairy is anything like ‘’The Rock’’ or Larry the Cable Guy, Elizabeth will live to regret it.

My daughters saw the movie “Tooth Fairy” when they were young, and they adopted Dwayne as their Tooth Fairy. My older daughter even wrote notes to him, which “he” answered. Both my daughter & I love creative writing, so we had a lot of fun with it. Of course, when people would ask them about the tooth fairy and they answered with “he”, we got a lot of strange looks.

Let her hide it and find no reward. She needs to learn the lesson that you have to cooperate with magic. Santa Claus only come when you’re asleep. Proof? Noone’s ever seen him! Ipso facto, ergo sum!

Tooth Fairy? O’Leary told me it was the Hudson Bay Company, Barry.

Lynn’s Notes:

This really happened. So many times, the strip was a documentation of the things that happened, almost word for word, in our home.

My grandson, once got an I.O.U. under his pillow, from the Tooth Fairy !

When I was about Elizabeth’s age, I built a Tooth Fairy Trap/alarm.It worked.Who knew the Tooth Fairy looks just like my dad? With a stubbed toe from tripping over the trap. Oops. :)

Are vampires visited by the Fang Fairy?

You don’t ask children at that age, you tell them.