Less appealing fairies
**TODO has a couple of verrucas he's not happy about, so as well as gaffer tape (aka duct tape occlusional therapy which is legit with clinical trial evidence and everything), I've employed a wheeze of my uncle-the-pediatrician's: buying them. This was apparently one of his front-line therapies in his clinics and highly successful. It certainly worked well on me at this sort of age. It works for warts and verrucas, since they're more or less the same but in different place. I buy them from the child - we settled on £1.50 for the crop of three. (He later wanted to spring an extra charge for delivery on me, but that just got him a Look.) Then, over the course of a few weeks, the warts/verrucas make their way over to me.
I think the actual way this works is that the majority of warts or verrucas heal up anyway over that sort of timescale. The child is usually keen on the transaction - it looks, correctly, like free money at worst. And a child might well be happier waiting a few weeks for 'sold' warts or verrucas to transfer to their new owner than to wait for them to heal up over that time. Every time they're reminded of it, they should also remember that it's due to go to someone else.
Discussion with **FIXME and **TODO focused on what happened after I got them. I said - following my uncle's lead - that they tend to just drop off me.
But what happens then? Maybe the Verruca Fairy comes to collect them. The Verruca Fairy is perhaps one of the Tooth Fairy's less attractive relations.
Our Tooth Fairy letters have a photo of "my friend the [flower] fairy" at the bottom - one of Cicely Mary Barker's Flower Fairies picked to be seasonal. So the conversation turned to what sort of friends the Verruca Fairy might have. We had the Nettle Sting Fairy, the Bump Fairy, the Bruise Fairy, the Graze Fairy, the Prickly Heat Fairy, the Mosquito Bite Fairy, and many more.
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I think the actual way this works is that the majority of warts or verrucas heal up anyway over that sort of timescale. The child is usually keen on the transaction - it looks, correctly, like free money at worst. And a child might well be happier waiting a few weeks for 'sold' warts or verrucas to transfer to their new owner than to wait for them to heal up over that time. Every time they're reminded of it, they should also remember that it's due to go to someone else.
Discussion with **FIXME and **TODO focused on what happened after I got them. I said - following my uncle's lead - that they tend to just drop off me.
But what happens then? Maybe the Verruca Fairy comes to collect them. The Verruca Fairy is perhaps one of the Tooth Fairy's less attractive relations.
Our Tooth Fairy letters have a photo of "my friend the [flower] fairy" at the bottom - one of Cicely Mary Barker's Flower Fairies picked to be seasonal. So the conversation turned to what sort of friends the Verruca Fairy might have. We had the Nettle Sting Fairy, the Bump Fairy, the Bruise Fairy, the Graze Fairy, the Prickly Heat Fairy, the Mosquito Bite Fairy, and many more.
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