Loose Tooth

Miles is essentially 5 1/2.  For some reason, I started thinking about loose teeth.  I was a early tooth loser, and wondered if Miles was going to be like me.  I asked him to open his mouth so I could check to see if he had any wiggle teeth.  I wiggled the bottom front two teeth.  The one on the left didn't budge.  The one on the right wiggles ever so little.  Excited, I told Miles that he has a loose tooth, and that it would come out.  Miles was not pleased with the news.  Actually, he freaked out.  He lost it.  I thought his reaction was really funny, so I was laughing while he was panicking.  I tried to explain to Miles that losing teeth is normal and supposed to happen.  He wasn't buying it.  Large age gaps are a funny thing... Nolan lost his last tooth long before Miles was interested in such things, so Miles has no idea about this rite of passage.  Trying to figure out how to help Miles understand that losing teeth is part of growing up, I remembered the book "Little Rabbit's Loose Tooth."  I ordered it from Amazon, and hopefully it was make losing a tooth less traumatic for Miles.