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?

Well Freud started it 😂

Tbc Im talking about extremes not someone who gets a tattoo on holiday cos their friends did.

I have my children’s names and I give zero shits whether anyone else likes them or not. They’re my children and they’re tattooed on my body. No one else needs to care. I’m happy with my decision!

That the kid is deceased or they don't see them much.

Why do you care though? If you’re secure in your taste just do it it’s no one else’s business. You can’t control other peoples opinions and abusing anyone that doesn’t fawn over you getting tattoos of your children is pretty pathetic and insecure behaviour.

And no I don’t like any tattoos. Too polite to say to your face but you did ask. Even if I were over 60 and posh (which I’m not) so what? Id still be entitled to my views. The whole post sounds like it’s posted by a petulant teenager.

Not every post on MN needs to be someone looking for advice. Many, like mine was, are just driven by curiosity. I was testing out a theory - people who tend to have very strong negative reactions to tattoos are generally older people who grew up with very different attitudes to tattoos OR Mrs Bucket types who are desperate to appear “classy”. There’s many people in neither of those categories that of course have differing opinions on tattoos but I think they have a greater understanding of them and a more nuanced attitude to them than the more simplistic “they’re all gross, anyone who has one’s rough as a rat”.

Trust me, I do not care what anyone on MN thinks about my tattoos are whether I should get one for my dc!! That was not the purpose of this post. I wholeheartedly trust my own judgement and have no reason to ask anyone for advice on my body art, apart from my tattooist! Not sure where you got the idea that I’ve “abused” people who don’t agree with me. I’ve said a few times something like “you can tell that post’s been written by someone over 60” - how’s the abuse? 🤣 If my comments were abusive they’d be removed. Funnily enough no one’s ever replied to the comment to say something like “actually I’m a 35-year-old, working class hairdresser” …because, of course, I am right! 🤣

I have my children's names incorporated into one of my tattoos. My husband has a family of lions (two adult ones and four cubs) to represent our family

You know what they say about assuming...

Both my husband and I have our children's names tattooed, and neither of us are deadbeats or crap parents.

I’m over 60 and posh and I have several tattoos ( only started aged 57).
I love seeing other people’s tattoos and hearing about the meanings behind them.
It’s all part of not negatively judging other people and celebrating our differences.
And it’s really made me laugh to think that I could ever be classed as being as rough as a rat.
Some people take life too seriously.