AITAH for wanting my mom to fund the tooth fairy
My son (6) lost a tooth today and was going to go spend the night with My mother (55F) tonight. While we were all swimming she shouted across the pool in front of my 10 year old son, 6 year old son, and 7 year old niece “how much do you normally give the boys for the tooth fairy?”
Luckily my 6 year old son and 7 year old niece didn’t hear because of the splashing. But my oldest heard her clear as day since he was on a swing nearby. Right after he came up to me and told me that the tooth fairy isn’t real and followed it up with “if adults can lie to us about the tooth fairy, then that means they’re lying about the other things like that too. So that means Santa isn’t either, or the Easter bunny. “
I haven’t addressed this with her yet because obviously I couldn’t talk about it in risk of the other kids around hearing us. But I’m extremely upset over it because my oldest son lost a piece of his childhood innocence today. AITAH if I ask her to cover the cost of the tooth fairy to help make up for what happened?