A MUM took to Twitter to ask for advice after her a nursery school teacher pulled out her daughter’s wobbly tooth.
The upset mum explained that her daughter had come back from nursery with the tooth removed from her mouth.
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The Australian parent was concerned as the tooth didn’t naturally fall out but was removed.
The woman alleged that the nursery school teacher pulled out the tooth even when her daughter asked her to stop.
In the tweet, she said her child did take the tooth home with her so they were able to leave it for the tooth fairy so the little girl still got to “enjoy the magic”.
But it didn’t stop the mum being worried that her daughter wasn’t given the choice.
The mother got a mixed response from fellow tweeters – some agreed that they would be annoyed and others said she was making a fuss of nothing.
One person, so said they had worked as a teacher, said it was a “massive over reaction”.
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He said: “My guess is it’s your oldest child.
“I was a teacher and remember several occasions where students came to show me how a tooth was holding on by thread.
“I’d give the child tissues and encourage them to pull it out.”
Another said: “As a former teacher of Prep students for many years I’ve had exactly the same situation many, many times.
“Little children can get quite freaked by a tooth that’s dangling out of their mouths by a thread, particularly if it’s the first one.”
But others felt that there was a difference between encouraging a child to pull out their tooth and doing it for them.
One person said: “That’s different if the child did it to themselves and the child didn’t tell you to stop.”
Another said: “That is a fair response in the situation you mentioned. The problem here is the child did not want the teacher to pull it out.”
A third said: “Yes, you encourage the child to remove it themselves…that is ok…but the teacher doing it…that is not on!”
