What do you think of tattoos to represent your children?

[Spookygoose]

Might depend on whether you’re a tattoo kind of person or not, but would you/have you ever had a tattoo that represents your children? If so is it very literal eg. Their name/D.O.B or more abstract/creative? What do you think of tattoos that represent someone’s children in general?

I have a heart tattoo - my daughter drew the heart when she was 5. It’s a simple line drawing. I picked it off a picture she had done and it’s an exact copy.

Yick

I hate tattoos...it's irrelevant what they represent to me. I just don't like them.

No one ever looked better with a tattoo

Well, I’m as rough as a rat, then.

I don’t like tattoos at all so my opinion is probably completely irrelevant, but I don’t understand why people need reminders of a child, living or dead, on their body.

You do whatever you want, you don't need permission from the nay sayers here!
Get a fine line drawn tattoo, they are beautiful x

Hate them in general. Never seen a nice one, you can age someone by their barbed wire arm cuff or celtic band, sheep mentality, self harm with a permanent blue sharpie.

I associate it with the lower classes to be honest. You rarely see people with the name Rupert tattooed on them....it's usually Mason, Kai, Jayden type names.

All tattoos are awful unless you live in a country and in a tribe where tattoo markings are part of your culture.

I think it depends, I don't like it when people have their children's names and dates of birth. Or faces. But I do like ones where they have say a mum elephant and a baby elephant 😅

I have 3 children and I have my first borns hand print tattooed on me. I got the tattoo a year ago and my son would be 13 in March. He was premature and died 2 hours after being born so it isn't a huge handprint.

Part of the reason I got it is that the paper his handprint was on had been accidently damaged by one of my other children and I couldn't bare the thought of it disappearing altogether.

😅😅😅 that is very true tbh

I don’t like them. My mum has mine and my siblings names tattooed on her back, she can’t even see them. What’s the point of them on your back? Attention seeking? Who cares about our names?! No idea!
I just think it’s a bit silly, she knows our names ffs 😂

How peculiar. People honestly ask "oh whats that tattoo?" Constantly?

I have quite a lot of tattoos and my kids think one of them represents them - it actually doesn’t, I just got a slightly different design to what I had in mind, and it suited the narrative 🤣

How could hidden tattoos be attention seeking? If they’re on her back they must be very rarely seen.

Maybe it felt meaningful for her to have your names on her, but she wants to keep that mostly private.

I have visible tattoos that are designed in such a way as to be difficult to read, because that’s how I want it.

I have a tattoo that represents my children on my arm. I got it years ago when my daughter was obsessed with fairies and my son obsessed with owls. So it’s an owl and a fairy with flowers etc. I love tattoos though and have several so it just blends in with the rest (though is my biggest!). It makes me smile every time, particularly as now both are pretty stroppy much of the time so it reminds me of cuter times lol.

I think people without tattoos are boring (kidding! I think it’s great to have whatever you want on your body - or nothing at all. I just like what I like for me!)

Personally speaking, I think words, any words, no matter what they are conveying, look terrible as tattoos. They mostly end up smudged and unreadable over time. They seem pointless to me.

"What does it say?"

Forever.

I have lyrics all over me because they’re very very important to me. They are perfectly legible, thank you very much 😁

It does matter what font you choose though.

I did say 'mostly' - a few escape the curse of being smeary owing to the person making a good choice of font in the first place. So many don't.

I’m a fan of typewriter font and dislike the swirly blousy scrawl type fonts.

Did you forget their names? That is mostly what I think.

Not yet, but i am planning on getting small simple hearts in a row just above the crook of my elbow

Chavvy in the extreme.

I have a symbol to represent three lost babies, but you'd never know that was what it symbolised unless I told you. I've got a different story for it that I tell people I don't know well.

I am a tattoo person and most of mine have special meanings. I got one after I got married which included the date of the wedding and decided to also include my son's date of birth too. I picked a design that had elements that represented both DH and DS (personality/name meaning) that also looked good. I don't love the massive name tattoos down the arm/neck look but each to their own, I don't see anything wrong with it, it's just an aesthetic I wouldn't choose. If you're a tattoo person then having one to represent your DC is pretty logical.