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Baby EarPiercing discussion on GMTV - Now!

117 replies

Milliways · 01/06/2005 07:33

I was watching and thought of you lot. They are having the same arguments that we all were a few weeks ago!

Maybe Pheasant shooting will be on telly in a few weeks as well

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scottishmumto1 · 02/06/2005 10:19

of you's that are for having their kids ears pierced, here is a question for you

would you pierce your own kids ears?

Toothache · 02/06/2005 10:21

Scottishmumto1??? Do you mean would they physically do it? Good question!

How come there is an age restriction on getting a tattoo, but not piercings???

Is it legal to have a babies belly button pierced? >pondering emoticon

nutcracker · 02/06/2005 10:21

No am not qualified to do it but if I was then yeah I would if they wanted it done.

Toothache · 02/06/2005 10:23

Nutty - Do you need qualifications to do it? How would you go about getting.

nutcracker · 02/06/2005 10:25

Well as far as I know you have to have done a short course thingy. In Clairs for example there are only usually certain members of staff that can do it.

Don't know how you go about it though.

hatsoff · 02/06/2005 10:25

can't let the comparison with toboganning and abseiling go. I do plenty of outdoor activities with my kids (not abseiling tho, I'm not sure anyone with tinies would have done that, but mine have skied). I don;t force them, I don't "put them through" it. I have however made a careful risk-benefit analysis. The benefits of perhaps slightly risky outdoor activities are - physical skills, co-ordination, confidence, learning about taking risk, fresh air, exercise. All things I rate quite highly and believe my children will benefit from. So I consider the risk of them hurting themselves if they fall off the tobaggan worth it. And the benefits of having your ears pierced are....????

edodgy · 02/06/2005 10:26

Toothache i dont think it is legal to get a baby's belly button pierced now i come to think of it i think there is an age limit of 16 0r 18. Surely there should be an age limit on ear piercing too maybe 12 0r 13 years.

scottishmumto1 · 02/06/2005 10:28

yeah toothache, i am wondering if people would actually do it to their own children.

there is courses you can do, or train with an establishment that does piercings already. some of the courses i think only last a day, which you can not surely learn everything in that time

Pinotmum · 02/06/2005 10:29

My niece in glasgow has her belly button done at 12 yo with her mum's consent. This imho carries more risk of infection.

nutcracker · 02/06/2005 10:29

Well i just said I would if i was qualified...whats your point ??

scottishmumto1 · 02/06/2005 10:32

i just looked up courses on ear piercing and you are qualified after a 6 hour course. yes 6 hours

edodgy · 02/06/2005 10:32

Wow i may do that course think i could probably fit that in but i'd have an age limit on ear piercing

Toothache · 02/06/2005 10:33

hatsoff - lol haven't read the whole thread.... so hadn't noticed that comparison! It is a strange one eh?

My friend had her bellybutton pierced (she was 22 though!) and for 3 weeks she carried a bottle TCP about with her coz it was oooooooozing. Sexy or what?!!

Toothache · 02/06/2005 10:34

Edodgy - Wow.... I might get the qualification so I can do it as a perk at kids birthday parties!

Pinotmum · 02/06/2005 10:35

Oh that would be a fantastic kid's birthday party gimic

scottishmumto1 · 02/06/2005 10:35

toothache, my friend had her belly button done a few years ago. she was playing with her cat on the floor and the cat ripped the belly ring out, ouch and mega yuk

edodgy · 02/06/2005 10:36

LOL Toothache forget the birthday parties its christenings you should go for !!!

oliveoil · 02/06/2005 10:36

I can't believe that this arguement is still rumbling on and some of the comparisons to child abuse etc . Get a grip.

Making Nutty etc feel like some sort of bad mother for earpiercing (sp?) .

Tsk tsk.

Toothache · 02/06/2005 10:38

ChristeningS!! Fab idea.... "In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.... Amen. Rrright, now to pierce her ears... Is that holy water sterile??".

Toothache · 02/06/2005 10:38

OO - I wasn't trying to make Nutty feel like a bad mum.

nutcracker · 02/06/2005 10:40

It's ok don't worry about it I am a crap mom anyway, ear pericings or no ear peircings.

Toothache · 02/06/2005 10:41

Aw nutty, I don't believe you're a bad Mum!

Pinotmum · 02/06/2005 10:44

I don't want my dd's ear pierced at the moment but where I live I am in the minority. No way are the children in my dd's class victims of abuse fgs. Thier parents don't get their ears pierced as a punishment. We all do things for vanity to our children from styling hair to buying clothes for them and washing and ironing those clothes. If I sent my child in to school with matted hair, unwashed/creased clothes and no holes in her ears does that make me less common and a good parent? If you don't want your child's ears pierced fine but that doesn't make you a better person that someone who does.

Toothache · 02/06/2005 10:45

Pinotmum - I think the outrage is tiny babies getting their ears pierced.... and being held down to have it done!

oliveoil · 02/06/2005 10:45

No, I am sure lots of posters didn't mean to but sometimes you should think before you put things down, lots of self rightous mutterings going on. Going to buy you all some net curtains to twitch .

Nutty - you are not a bad mum, nobody is on this site or you would not be on it. Does that makes sense?