OFF TOPIC - pierced ears

at what age would you/ did you let your daughter get her ears pierce.

DD is just nine and has been campaigning for a year for them.

I got mine done when I was 18 and could it with out a parents signature. My
Dad thought only "bad girls" had pierced ears (this was 30 years ago).

C

"Cheryl Isaak" wrote in message
...
at what age would you/ did you let your daughter get her ears pierce.

DD is just nine and has been campaigning for a year for them.

I got mine done when I was 18 and could it with out a parents signature.
My
Dad thought only "bad girls" had pierced ears (this was 30 years ago).

C


I think around ten would be okay with me. But I would be very adamant about
only allowing small and very appropriate to her age earrings. Definitely no
big hoops for a tomboy.

I did mine on a dare from some friends when I was 16. We were sitting on
the stoop in front of my doctor's house when they dared me to do it. I rang
his bell after office hours and asked him to do it. He said your mother
will kill me, but he got a needle and thread and did it anyway. Lucky for
both of us, my mother didn't have a fit.

I doubt that would fly nowadays when everyone is suing everyone else.

Lucille

Cheryl Isaak wrote:

at what age would you/ did you let your daughter get her ears pierce.

DD is just nine and has been campaigning for a year for them.

I got mine done when I was 18 and could it with out a parents signature. My
Dad thought only "bad girls" had pierced ears (this was 30 years ago).


I had to wait until I was thirteen. That's probably what I'd go with for
DD too, except she has no desire whatever to get hers pierced. Hates
pain. I'm also one of those cranky types who makes 'em wait longer the
more they bug me.

Karen E.

Karen E. wrote:
Cheryl Isaak wrote:

at what age would you/ did you let your daughter get her ears pierce.

DD is just nine and has been campaigning for a year for them.

I got mine done when I was 18 and could it with out a parents
signature. My
Dad thought only "bad girls" had pierced ears (this was 30 years ago).


I had to wait until I was thirteen. That's probably what I'd go with for
DD too, except she has no desire whatever to get hers pierced. Hates
pain. I'm also one of those cranky types who makes 'em wait longer the
more they bug me.

Karen E.

Karen -

I like the way you think, VBG! I also made my DDs wait until 13.

Sue (one of the last of the baby boom generation with virgin lobes)


--
Susan Hartman/Dirty Linen
The Magazine of Folk and World Music
www.dirtylinen.com

On 11/23/07 11:13 AM, in article
, "Karen E."
wrote:

Cheryl Isaak wrote:

at what age would you/ did you let your daughter get her ears pierce.

DD is just nine and has been campaigning for a year for them.

I got mine done when I was 18 and could it with out a parents signature. My
Dad thought only "bad girls" had pierced ears (this was 30 years ago).


I had to wait until I was thirteen. That's probably what I'd go with for
DD too, except she has no desire whatever to get hers pierced. Hates
pain. I'm also one of those cranky types who makes 'em wait longer the
more they bug me.

Karen E.


She is definitely the odd one out without pierced ears. She'll ask now and
again (like yesterday when she was the only girl with out pierced ears), but
not to bug me about it.
C

On 11/23/07 11:06 AM, in article
, "Lucille" lzoltynospam@now at
comcast..net wrote:


"Cheryl Isaak" wrote in message
...
at what age would you/ did you let your daughter get her ears pierce.

DD is just nine and has been campaigning for a year for them.

I got mine done when I was 18 and could it with out a parents signature.
My
Dad thought only "bad girls" had pierced ears (this was 30 years ago).

C


I think around ten would be okay with me. But I would be very adamant about
only allowing small and very appropriate to her age earrings. Definitely no
big hoops for a tomboy.
No worries there - my fear is she'll want to borrow mine...

I did mine on a dare from some friends when I was 16. We were sitting on
the stoop in front of my doctor's house when they dared me to do it. I rang
his bell after office hours and asked him to do it. He said your mother
will kill me, but he got a needle and thread and did it anyway. Lucky for
both of us, my mother didn't have a fit.

I doubt that would fly nowadays when everyone is suing everyone else.
Oh my - I know lots of girls who did it that way.

Cheryl Isaak wrote:
at what age would you/ did you let your daughter get her ears pierce.

DD is just nine and has been campaigning for a year for them.

I think it's largely a question of maturity. I don't
really want to have to be responsible for ensuring that they're
properly cared for while healing, so it's not happening until I
feel secure the kid can manage it well.
Also, it can be handy to use things like this as a
sort of rite of passage. To do that, you need some kind of
rationale (why at this age/stage/whatever you've decided) and
you need to build it up for a while so it feels like an important
transition. Somewhere around the 9/10/11 year ages is usually
a good time for some kind of rite of passage developmentally.

Best wishes,
Ericka

Susan Hartman wrote:


I like the way you think, VBG! I also made my DDs wait until 13.

Sue (one of the last of the baby boom generation with virgin lobes)


Add me to the list of baby boomers with non-holed ears...
or anything else for that matter. lol

I just could never understand why someone would put
themselves through the pain voluntarily.

And don't get me started about the parents who have
babies in diapers ears pierced! Child abuse in my
book!

Nyssa, who might have holes in her head, but not
ones for jewelry

..My dd got hers done at 8 - DAD took her, I thought she should wait.
Now that she's 12, I have to remind her to put earrnings in
occasionally to keep the holes from closing!

Nyssa wrote:

Susan Hartman wrote:


I like the way you think, VBG! I also made my DDs wait until 13.

Sue (one of the last of the baby boom generation with virgin lobes)



Add me to the list of baby boomers with non-holed ears...



If God had meant for me to have holes in my ears, He would have put them
there.


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