to think babies wearing earings is totally unacceptable

[PixieAndDixie]

Took kids to indoor playcentre today and my DS 2 was playing with a baby boy that wasn't even walking just doing that standing up holding on to things I am guessing about 10 months old. Anyway he had an earing in each ear - one was a stud the other a hoop WTF?? A hoop for obvious reasons is unacceptable right?

I feel FURIOUS with parents that get their babies ears peirced, I mean why would you want to??

thanks for confirming that it IS crap pixieand dixie (I remember them!!). I would have loved to have seen her putting it on her lo!

"the more you hate babies with their ears pierced, the more middle class you are"

Is that a bad thing?

It's a terrible thing.

And the OP is talking about a baby BOY.

i'm far from middle class and hate it and use the word chav
where i live chav is the norm, I don't think its a 'class' thing more of a im a moron look at me with my trouser leg rolled up my flar cap and my baby with a peirced ear

Nope. Nothing wrong with being middle class.

What's wrong is when middle class or other people start to sneer at others, using nasty words like chav as a means to claim some sort of superiority.

Ear piercings have already become the signifier of the chav on this thread.. . ..

OK about the class thing - lower class people or shall we say people for lower socio-economic backgrounds are more likely to have their kids ears peirced. We all know this is true.

i don't consider it a class thing, i do consider it a snobbery thing.

snobbery crosses class IME

true, custardo. the class comment was in response to all the chav comments (another class/snobbery thing)

Thats gross, piercing a babies ears. I mean its hardly the case that a 10 month old has begged for earrings. So clearly the parents have enforced something painful and hassly on their baby, purely because they think it looks good....and surely babies should be allowed to simply be babies before they are subjected to the adult nonsense of modifying their appearance for style, fashion, vanity, fitting in.

Any parent who does that has done something mean IMO. And yes it does tend to be families from a lower social class. But the use of the word 'chav' IMO is just a mean way of slagging off people who are poor and stupid, and pretending its funny.

But I wish they wouldnt do it.

Although why is acceptable to me that nepalese culture has babies in earrings, but not working class british culture? Thats a thought, maybe the first nepalis to pierce their babies ears had outraged women kicking up a storm on the internet. Or around the bonfire. Or whatever. Somebody has to be the first in their culture to do something that later on becomes tradition. Anyway, enough witterings. I've confused myself.

Sorry didn't realise we weren't allowed to say chav on here as well as spider.

Whats wrong with spider?

Apparently someone has a fear of them and we are not allowed to write it.

Nope, I really dislike small children with pierced ears. It's cruel.

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I didn't mean I dislike the small children with pierced ears , it's the pierced ears I dislike (just to clarify )

I think YABU for claiming it to be 'unacceptable'. Clearly, it is acceptable, or we wouldn't see babies with their ears pierced. Yeah it isn't nice, and it isn't the cultural norm in this country, but apart from making the parents and child look like prats idiots fools to lots of other people, it doesn't actually do any harm right?

Why be furious with it? Each to their own but surely there are better things to get furious about than chavs people having different tastes to you? (like child poverty, corrupt governments, the arms trade...)

Is that a ghosty Custardo?

Pierced ears on babies are not to my liking either though, but I wouldn't get worked up about it.

I think it does do harm. It hurts. It can lead to infections and injuries. Fundamentally, whether you think it is acceptable or not is down to whether you think a child's body is the property of their parents for them to do as they wish with, including mutilating modifying it for cosmetic purposes without the child's full and informed consent.

It might do harm if the baby wearing a hoop earing rips his ear open .

I still haven't quite worked out who actually thinks it's a good idea? We seem to be tiptoeing very carefully around no-one!

True Strawberry - I haven't noticed anyone say they think it is acceptable to have a 10 month old babies ears peirced - especially a boy. I am glad we all agree.