no never
i have worked in salons that do ear peircing and even though i have been trained to do it i never told them i was as i refuse to peirce kids ears point blank
i was sick to the back teeth of the women that brought thier kids in to get it done telling them no no it doesn't hurt trust me then when the poor bugger gets the first one done and screams and begs not to get the next one done the evil witch of a mother then pins the kid down so the other one can be done
tantamount to child cruelty in my eyes it is done for the mothers vanity not the childs the child is just a doll for them to dress up however they choose its just wrong
i believe in the freedom of choice but this should be the childs choice not the parents we are meant to guide them through thier childhood free from harm not guide them to do our will
i have walked out of salons before now just because i couldn't trust myself not to tell the mother exactly wat i think of them which could of led me to loosing my job and i also at one salon managed to talk the owner into putting in an age limit of 14 for ear peircing
At the risk of repeating myself, I am rather fond of erotic piercings.
I had mine done at 7, discovered I was allergic to something in the metal straight after and ended up looking like a chipmunk!!! We've since worked out that gold is the reactant!
I rarely ever wear earrings, the holes are still there and I can get earrings in but it's too faffy to bother now.
Stepdaughter has hers done twice but my daughter point blank refuses, doesn't want them doing at all!
Babies and children should never be pierced for someone else's vanity! Tattoos are age-limited by law so why not piercings?
They all seem to get their little girls ears pierced in countries like Italy and Spain, I always think, oh how sweet, when looking at them when we are away.
But back here, it just does not look right.
Dont really know why, but to me it just doesn't.
Yeah I think it's great, babies should be tattooed as well (although only with Mum on their arms and Burp Here on their backs) and they should be able to get special bottles that have a separate fillers for the spirit and the mixer (oooh did I just invent alcotots?).
Errr....no!! Leave the poor little buggers ears alone!
Well, it looks like I'm not as out of kilter as I was lead to believe! Has no one on this site had them done?
Thanks all for your replies :thumbup:
I am that evil woman who had her daughter's ears pierced when she was one year and one week old. I had mine pierced very young too - I don't remember though. My daughter has had hers pierced several more times since, and her nose.
Apart from the pain of doing it in the first place - babies and small children pull on their own ears and they certainly yank each other's. It is incredibly easy to do damage by pulling an earing out.
I don't want to offend anyone who has taken that choice with their own children - parents are the decision makers after all - but I couldn't do it to mine. I'd consider it an act of cruelty. Piercings in our culture are no more than a fashion accessory.
We used to have a costume jewellery shop and both of us have probably pierced more ears than most people have had hot dinners. We have had new mums come into the shop and asked for their new borns ears to be done. We always refused. It did not feel right to be doing something to that child's body without their consent (at a time when we were drumming into our son that his body was his own and NO ONE had a right to interfere with it, even down to the length of his hair).
As a rationale (you can't just say to someone "are you mad? what kind of parent are you?") we used to point out to the mums that their child's ears had not fully unfolded and to do it too early ran the risk of it being uneven later. Some went away and we saw them a few years later, most I suspect went to one of the high street chains who did not care.
We used to have a costume jewellery shop and both of us have probably pierced more ears than most people have had hot dinners. We have had new mums come into the shop and asked for their new borns ears to be done. We always refused. It did not feel right to be doing something to that child's body without their consent (at a time when we were drumming into our son that his body was his own and NO ONE had a right to interfere with it, even down to the length of his hair).
As a rationale (you can't just say to someone "are you mad? what kind of parent are you?") we used to point out to the mums that their child's ears had not fully unfolded and to do it too early ran the risk of it being uneven later. Some went away and we saw them a few years later, most I suspect went to one of the high street chains who did not care.
i sat waiting in a hairdressers for my appointment when a young couple came in , little boy of around 2 with pierced ears and a tiny baby no more than a few weeks old, i didnt take much notice until i heard a piercing scream from the baby, and the fathers voice saying its ok baby itll soon be over. i felt physically sick and left still needing my haircut. in my opinion its nothing less than child abuse, i found it traumatic holding my daughter still when she was having her injections as a baby. having said that she has her ears pierced now but then it was her decision and shes 16 now.
It's bleedin ridiculous even considering it!
as a jew I'm not new to "child mutilation"..after all that is wat circumcision is..
I do condone that though, while I do not understand the piercing thing at all:
circumcision: it happens on or around the 8th day of life of every jewish boy, and judging by what I saw when my brother had it done, it's quite a bloody mess.
it is also performed by a surgeon, however, so it's as safe as can be..and it has, in the long run, beneficial health effects. there are religious/social/health reasons that somewhat justify or at least make sense of the whole endeavour. it is part of a millennia old tradition. this accounts for something.
piercing of the earlobes: in western society there is no reason at all to having it done to babies. in asian and african countries where this is part of the tradition, has a social and religious significance, I put it on a par with the circumcision of jewish babies..
in western europe, where it is purelly done for aestetical reasons, mostly misguided and for the visual pleasure of parents, it only saddens and enrage me.
so far I have seen none here in england, but in italy I've seen it a number of times...and every single time, the parents are precisely the kind of people I would want to have nothing to do with and nothing in common.
intellectually, socially and morally, the kind of people in italy who would do such a thing are just simply lightyears away from myself, in lifestyle, education, profession and social behaviour.
this may sound deeply disparaging, and it is not meant as such. I am sure that these people are decent human beings on their own accord..I just feel like I have nothing to say to the likes of them, nor they to me... no common ground whatsoever.
I find piercing a baby's ears distasteful, cheap, vulgar and mean.
the 3 of my sisters had theirs done between the ages of 12 and 18... and always after long debate and making sure that it's what they really wanted and that they were ready to take care of themselves as long as the safety of their earlobes was concerned. (as in "stopped tomboying around")
if I ever have a daughter, she will need to convince me she has good reasons to want it..and unless she's articulate enough to do so, the answer will be no for as long as she'll need my, or someone else's, money to do it.
No, deffinately not.
Unless it was a girl but was hideously ugly or looked like a boy, in which case both situations would make lizzy duke hoops more than acceptable. Maybe even with their name across the middle so I didn't forget what it was called.
NO they look like chavs with ears pierced. I hate it vermently.
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