Parent content: loosing teeth

No backstory, and no discussion. Just the facts, ma'am.

How many of you (parents who have had at least one child who has lost at least one tooth) have kept, or wanted to keep one or all of the baby teeth?

One of my dogs ate the last one from under the pillow. The berkeleyers can smell blood better than sharks.

We do not save body parts. My youngest lost a finger when he was 3. I regret the policy only because it would be cool for him to wear it around his neck now.

My sick wife has all the teeth from all three kids, along with baby hair and I don't know what other body parts. Shes worse than Dahmer.

Our 5 year old has lost two so far and we kept them both. Though now that I think about it I couldn't say why.

I think we have a couple old film canisters with our kids' baby teeth in it.

I wish my mother hadn't thrown out my wisdom teeth because those berkleyers were monster and one of them had a cavity in the side you could put a roofing nail into.

It's natural to want to hold on to momentos from your children's youth, but are you gonna get the teeth out 20 years hence and stare at them?

I think my parents kept our baby teeth? The ones they could, anyway. I lost one baby tooth to a rice crispy treat and they were not about to go 'searching' for it.

I have no idea if my wife saves them or not.

It's not something that will bring back fond memories, so I probably wouldn't. My wife is pretty strange so she may have. She seems to save everything else.

We have a drawer full of them. Or rather my wife does. Just sexy underwear and teeth. And it's not like they're labeled, all four deucelings mixed together. It's weird.

Nope. That's not a thing to save.

And GPS: ouch dude! My oldest tried to get a finger pinched off in a door in kindergarten but while broken and lacerated it stayed on. And he's no more careful now than before......

My mom gave me my teeth back last year.

My son has kept the one he lost so far.

Potentially Offensive Joke Time!

After performing his first ceremonial circumcision, a young rabbi decided to keep the tiny foreskin as a souvenir. Over the years, he continued to do the same thing. When it came time to retire many years later, he had accumulated a large bag full of foreskins that he kept in a drawer. Not knowing what to do with them all, he took the bag to a shoemaker and asked him if he could make anything out of them. The shoemaker said to give him a few days and he would do his best.

A week later, the rabbi returned and the proud shoemaker handed him a beautiful wallet.

The rabbi was shocked and disappointed. "I gave you forty years worth of foreskins and all you could make out of them was this little wallet?"

The shoemaker replied, "Just rub it for a little while and it turns into a suitcase."

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JamesMcD wrote: It's natural to want to hold on to momentos from your children's youth, but are you gonna get the teeth out 20 years hence and stare at them?

Only in disgust and questioning why.

My mother still has my first tooth and a lock of hair from my first haircut. I'll be 63 in a few weeks.

My wife has baby teeth in her drawer.

I have shark's teeth in mine.

Not sure what we'd do with a hand or a foot.

If you do keep the teeth, do not ever open the sealed container for any reason. I made that mistake and I thought the smell would make me vomit.

My parents lost their teeth a long time ago.

And I thought I was weird collecting spores, mold, and fungus.

I have 3 kids, ages 7-13. We have kept nearly all of their teeth. I have no idea why.

We have the first tooth each of our kids lost in a bin someplace.

I have most of my son's as well. He's 12 now and lost his last baby tooth a few months ago. I don't know why I kept them either.

We've kept them all and I have no idea why. Each kid has their own little silver box that has a spot for a lock of hair and a spot for teeth.

My mom has all of mine and my siblings baby teeth saved all jumbled together in a bag.