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How
much should the tooth fairy pay per tooth? There's an app for that! See
if you're paying below market rate for your children's teeth:Kids found an average $3 per tooth under their pillows this year, up
15% from last year, according to a survey from Visa out Tuesday. Some
received as much as $20 per tooth. "It's a good time to be a kid
with a loose tooth," says Jason Alderman, Visa's senior director
of global financial education. [...]Unfortunately, teachers say, tooth inflation is all too common in elementary
schools. Nobody wants to be the parent whose child is "the talk
at recess," because of a frugal Tooth Fairy, says Amy Moncarz,
a second-grade teacher at Lucy V. Barnsley Elementary School in Rockville,
Md. Discrepancies in tooth price can lead to a conversation parents
might want to avoid: the existence of the Tooth Fairy itself.To help parents calculate the going rate for teeth, Visa on Tuesday
is launching an app for iPhone and iPad and a calculator on its Facebook
page. The app uses the survey's data to determine the average payoff
a child can expect based on a parent's gender, education, location,
age and income.Link
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