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AIBU..to hate it when people pierce their babys ears?!!

43 replies

motherbeyond · 25/07/2009 20:04

just curious.saw a baby the other day with pierced ears,couldn't have been more than a year old..went through me
what thinks ye?

OP posts:
juicyjolly · 26/07/2009 15:19

This may sound a bit harsh, but it is really how I feel.
It should be made illegal!
Nobody has the right to put holes in ANYBODY elses body. The fact that it is done to babies who cant even speak yet let alone object sickens me. Isnt there screaming enough to let the most moronic of parents know they should not do this!

posieparkerinChina · 26/07/2009 15:28

It's been a loooooooooooooooooooooong day.....four dcs, 30 degree heat, DH back in the UK.

LoveBeingAMummy · 26/07/2009 20:21

My ears were peirced when I was a baby but i will not be doing the same to my pfb.

peppapighastakenovermylife · 26/07/2009 21:05

I don't like it and wouldnt do it to my own DD (or DS). Apart from that, I dont really understand why you would? I saw a baby around 8 months old this morning with big diamante hoops in her ears...surely she could pull them out?!

we do lots of things do our DC that they don't like, just so they look (and smell) nice

Do we? Like what? My DC's don't like getting dressed sometimes or being cleaned but thats a necessity - what do 'we' do to them that isnt?

simplesusan · 26/07/2009 23:33

Mmmmmm
oh they do look pretty especially when munching on a sausage roll from Greggs and swigging a bottle of coke at the same time

I think babies with pierced ears look especially fetching when out with their pierced, tatooted, tangoed Burberry wearing mothers and dads.

NoseyHelen · 26/07/2009 23:38

Its so rude of people to say that a topic has been done to death and they don't want to talk about it. Not everyone knows every subject that has been discussed previously and clearly it was of interest to the OP.

The title was really clear so anyone who was bored of the topic could have chosen not to open the thread rather than be snotty about it.

Mumcentreplus · 27/07/2009 00:58

I knew the greggs sausage roll and coke would have a mention...just wouldn't be a ear piercing thread without them ..snobby arses I love a greggs cheese & onion pastie meself

mel1981 · 27/07/2009 01:21

I worked in a shop which pierced ears and I was trained to do it too but I refused to pierce young kids ears (unprofessional I know)- prob 80% screamed the shop down. Fair enough generally it didnt last that long but why put them through the pain? Some mums had to 'pin' their kids down in the first place.
like barnsley says each to their own im just being no part of the process.

SolidGoldBrass · 27/07/2009 01:29

It's disgusting and parents who do it to under 5s are fucking morons. And no, 'culture' isn't an excuse. If your 'culture' involves doing painful things to babies and children then your culture is barbaric and moronic. 'It's culture' is the argument always used to justify doing horrible things to a weak or subordinate class or group of people, 'culture' is never alowed to be used to justify doing anything specifically uncomfortable or restrictive towards men, or white people, or heterosexuals...

Mumcentreplus · 27/07/2009 01:47

Brassy...culture is what it is...no point getting your white middle class knickers in a twist over something you don't comprehend (maybe completely wrong here)..lol..so every culture that does not have your or should i say western standards are barbaric and moronic?...grow up

Mumcentreplus · 27/07/2009 02:18

They could be any colour middle-class pants.....see thats what happens when my drip runs out!...

posieparkerinChina · 27/07/2009 10:22

I'm struggling to find something I do to my children that is barbaric..... nope nothing, no holes, cutting of the end of their penis, didly squat.

Nothing snobby about not wanting to hurt my children so they look pretty.... which they don't. No child looks nice in rolled gold, unless it's the collectors links charm bracelet my dd has which she never wears.

SGB.....I always love reading your posts.

posieparkerinChina · 27/07/2009 10:23

My dd is very beautiful no enhancement needed, at all. BTW!

OnlyWantsOne · 27/07/2009 10:24

YANBU

yuckkky

Hollyoaks · 27/07/2009 10:33

YANBU, its just awful. However, I have recently painted dd toenails when I did mine. Shes 18mo and everytime she takes off her socks she says wow wee. Cute but only as a one off, not a usual occurance.

I'm now hiding beneath a cushion in case I get stoned for admitting this!

pispirispis · 27/07/2009 10:37

Ok I know it probably sounds rude when people say it has been done to death, but fgs: look here for example

BTW on that thread I'm one of the mums whose baby's ears are pierced. I live in Spain where all baby girl's ears are pierced. And that thread made me sooo paranoid about going home and people thinking I was a child abuser. But everyone smiled and cooed and said aren't her little earrings lovely. Either everyone in my town is a total chav or they're all horribly insincere!

Either way I don't care any more!

pispirispis · 27/07/2009 10:39

Oh, I forgot about this -

pispirispis · 27/07/2009 10:46

Whoops, sorry about ropey grammar. I meant "baby girls' ears".

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