The Tooth Fairy (or Easter Bunny, or Santa Claus . . .): a fun and harmless fiction, or a pointless justification for lying to children?

Life is dark enough without these characters to help buffer how dull life could be without them. In comparison it’s better to have these comfortable lies in place than the alternative of dull banality. Children’s minds are wide open and introducing a little bit of wonder into their lives is, as far as my feelings dictate to me, a good thing. The point of these characters is to give kids hope, someone to think about while they are growing up learning how to behave as a good person when they get older. Being good for Christmas, being good for the Tooth Fairy, being good for the Easter Bunny to hide eggs – these things all concentrate on one thing, to be good. If there is no reason for it, then it’s not as easy to explain to kids the why behind being good. The ends justify the means, at least in this case I think.