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 was behind a woman in Aldi the other day. Track suit, ugg slippers, face fillers and blonde streaked ponytail so you could see the back of her neck. Rocco, Lacey-Mae and Shyla plus dates. I thought it looked awful and I have two tattoos myself.

I think a photo displayed is better personally.

mega naff - naff to the max.

I don’t like tattoos generally as I think they’re tacky. If I was forced to get one, one that represented my dc would be my first choice.

I know someone with a tattoo of each child’s birth month flower which I think is cute

I have my children’s birth flowers as fine line tattoos. They’re pretty but have a special meaning

But you're not being called names. That poster spoke generally and talked about women she knows being crap mothers, not you.

There aren’t only two things to spend money on. But if you have £100 you can only spend it once. On anything. Options are endless.

Mostly as rough as rats, seemed to sum it up.

Urgh no. Not even if they had died.

Honestly ignore them 😊 MN is really, really not representative of real life opinions on tattoos.

And think about it - calling people chavs when true classy people would simply never dream of saying such a thing about someone else's lifestyle choices, its quite funny really!

Silly people who are best ignored and just let them crack on with declaring their disgust and effectively shouting at the sky 😂

Yuch.

So true 😂

I think there’s a huge divide in how tattoos are viewed by the under 50s compared to over 50s say

I've seen loads of people (men and women) sporting tattoos and looking 50 and well over.
Maybe they've just aged as badly as the tatts have.

I devoted a lot of care to trying to not have permanent reminders of my children on my body, so no varicose veins or stretch marks thankfully.

There was a wild thread on here once where the OP’s husband wanted to get a tattoo, and the UPROAR! She was being told to leave her husband every other post. As if it’s anyone else’s business what do you with your own skin.

The post further up this thread slagging off a women in Aldi is the epitome of unpleasantness and snobbery that you find on here whenever tattoos are mentioned.

Names fine. Photos awful they never look good the kid always looks like they have a big fat head

I’m a heavily tattooed person.

I’m not a fan of the on-the-nose names and dates.
But the more creative ones where it’s not immediately obvious? Fine. I’ve seen some lovely ones.
I have one - one of my biggest that has representations of my children incorporated. I used the symbolism of the meanings of their names. So I know what it signifies but it wouldn’t be immediately obvious to a stranger.

Quite like tattoos though am picky about what I like and find the way some of the youngsters talk about them and get them done really odd (almost like it’s a kind of work thing that they have to do). I can’t imagine having ds’s name tattooed on me, it’s on my heart forever anyway, but I don’t recoil in horror if someone else has that. So far there’s nothing that I definitely want myself for the long term but I’m not ruling it out.

Well this thread has turned into an absolute mire of unpleasant snobbery and ageism hasn’t it? Which to my mind is far far uglier than any tattoo.

I still love mine. And if snobs and superior People don’t like it, it makes me like it even more.

also, I’m well over 50.

Not for me, but I loathe tattoos generally and would never have one. Each to their own though.

Engraving your skin to mark a momentous occasion like the birth of your child... sounds like a cultural practice to me. It's bad form to sneer at other people's cultures

DD has an animal nickname. I have a tattoo of said animal for her.

Don’t get portraits unless the tattooist is good. My brother in law got a tat of his sons and it’s awful. They’ve got dead eyes 🤣 and it’s so incredibly bad, it’s funny.

God mumsnet is painful sometimes. So many posts about it being "chavvy" as though sneering at other people is the height of class.

I have loads of tattoos, none of my kids names or faces, but I do have some that are largely outlines that they like to colour in.

I actually had to read the names and dates of birth off one fathers neck to fill in his children's details at an appointment recently. He no longer had contact with these children and couldn't remember how to spell ones name or the date of birth of the other. So I guess it has a use of you are that type of parent.
Sorry but honestly it's about as classless as you can get.