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To wonder what on earth would possess someone to pierce their 4mo son's ear?

46 replies

flibbertigibbert · 19/02/2011 10:52

AIBU to think that it's just absolutely grim to give a 4mo little boy an earring? The family in question are white, English C of E, so it's not a cultural thing. I just can't get over how yucky it is - a nice turquoise earring as well! All 3 of the boys in the family have an earring, but at least they're 3 and 5 which makes it ever so slightly better.

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HowFuckingRude · 19/02/2011 13:59

its all a bit east 17 isnt it?

LOL. Tto qualify for that category you have to run your own head over whilst vomiting up jacket potatoes

(((Dappy))) god bless 'im

squeakytoy · 19/02/2011 14:00

Dappy???? that is n-dubz.. lol..

Although Briah Harvey and Dappy are very similiar in looking like a pair of garden gnomes...

Alouiseg · 19/02/2011 14:03

Vile, im not quite sure how inflicting something like that isnt classed as mutilation.

I hope he rebels when hes older and disowns his chavscum parents for mutilating him.

SugarMousePink · 19/02/2011 14:04

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5DollarShake · 19/02/2011 14:04

I freely judge on this. As I do on many, many things. It's very satisfying. Grin

breatheslowly · 19/02/2011 14:10

Not nice at all. And the background is relevant as we tend to judge norms of other cultures less harshly than unusual things in our own culture. Perhaps a bit PC, but that is another thread.

HowFuckingRude · 19/02/2011 14:15

Dappy???? that is n-dubz.. lol..

Of course it is! I meant Dipstick Harvey. Got my chavs-in-hats mixed up. They do look like they were separated at birth though.

:)

saffy85 · 19/02/2011 14:16

I know we "shouldn't judge" but please, I hate seeing small children and babies with pierced ears. What's the point? A baby of 4 months wouldn't have asked it's mummy and daddy to mutilate it's lug 'oles for the sake of it. So why do it?

BTW I don't hate it because it looks chavvy/common (I am both myself so not one to judge so much on that) but because I don't get why anyone would intentionally hurt their baby for the sake of vanity or indeed culture.

hairylights · 19/02/2011 14:16

I just think there are way, way mire important things we could be spending our energy on than judging something completely harmless and insignificant like this.

God aib annoys me sometimes. I gave my answer and have been leapt upon!

LemonDifficult · 19/02/2011 14:22

Ear piercing is practically like branding your baby Chav - of course people will judge. That's what we're all designed to do.

Alouiseg · 19/02/2011 14:24

"Harmeless and insignificant" Thats how we describe inflicting pain and mutilation Hmm

coccyx · 19/02/2011 15:12

I will pass judgement........cheap, chavvy,and cruel

beautyspot · 19/02/2011 15:16

Perhaps they are gypsies?

Kirk1 · 19/02/2011 15:29

Harmless? It hurts having your ears peirced. I've had countless infections in the holes in my ears, children get earrings caught all the time and I had more than one friend at school whose earlobes were ripped. I don't see it as harmless at all. In fact, downright dangerous would be my assessment. Being mutilated does tend to make you less employable when you're older, so I'd hardly call it insignificant either.

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 19/02/2011 15:38

hairy... that made me laugh; I thought 'judgey pants' were a standard uniform on Mumsnet... why else would anyone be on a thread like this then?

YesPleaseDrChristian · 19/02/2011 15:41

Horrid, horrid on girls or boy babies, toddlers and young children.

I was allowed my ears pierced at 16 so DDs will have to wait until then as well.

SoupDragon · 19/02/2011 15:43

I'm quietly sniggering at the fact that "I Shall Not Judge" Hairy has judged the OP for wearing judgey pants and appearing to be a snob :o

Northernlurker · 19/02/2011 15:44

I'm quite happy to judge this - it's dangerous, painful and unnecessary. I took dd1 to have hers done at Christmas. She is nearly 13 and old enough to make a reasoned decision and deal with the consequences. Piercing on young children unable to do that is abuse of that child imo.

SoupDragon · 19/02/2011 15:46

I hate pierced ears on babies and small children. It is stupid and dangerous.

I don't judge the parents who do it insofar as I wouldn't let it cloud my opinion of them IYSWIM but I think it's a horrid thing to do.

boosmummie · 19/02/2011 15:58

I don't think boys or girls under ten should have them done (actually I don't like them on boys full stop...). I live in Spain and here all the little girls have them done by around 3 months, but a friend of mine from Argentina who lives was begging the midwives to do her daughter's the day after she was born - they apparently have them done in the hospitals in Argentina. They also shave their heads until they are 6 months old with the belief that it gives them stronger hair.... My friend saw my face when she told me about the ear piercing request and obviously my chin hit the floor and when I told her exactly why she was gobsmacked as it's the complete opposite where she's from!!

Funnily enough when DD3 was smaller (she's almost 2 now), every Spanish person who would stop and coo automatically assumed she was a boy as she didn't have her ears pierced - funny really as a...she's always looked like a little girl and b... a lot the times she was in pink or pink offshoots too.

duchesse · 20/02/2011 16:18

Wrong on so many fronts, little boy or little girl.

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