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Just saw a 4 month old baby get her ears pierced - why????

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TambaTheDragonSlayer · 18/01/2006 15:48

Why on earth would you get your babies ears pierced???

Woman walks into Claires Acessories with her 16 week old baby and asks how old they have to be to get her ears done. Answer 4 months but must have had her jabs. Ok mom replies, lets do it.

Poor screaming baby has pain inflicted on her uneccesarily so mum can show off her oh so fashoinable baby.

Why????

I was so [shocked]

I could never cause my baby undue pain and discomfort. What makes people do this??

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Meanoldmummy · 20/01/2006 11:00

Not all Canadians are friendly!!! I had a Canadian teacher once who was a bullying sergeant-major who followed me around blowing a whistle all the damn time and calling me by my surname. I loathed him. But I do have Canadian and American friends too It annoys me a bit when I expreess one of my more idiosyncratic opinions and people say "You must be American" or "I assume you're a Catholic"..but really it serves me right for having extreme views I suppose!!

DaddyCool · 20/01/2006 11:04

i'm not nice.

DaddyCool · 20/01/2006 11:04

oh and btw, Sansouci - haven't seen you in aaaaaggges. where you been?

Meanoldmummy · 20/01/2006 11:06

recognising you have a problem is the first step to putting it right DC...

sansouci · 20/01/2006 11:06

...and I'm not fat!

Meanoldmummy · 20/01/2006 11:06

I am

sansouci · 20/01/2006 11:10

The Canadians are really getting up my nose about citizenship/passport issues though. Apparently they won't accept a passport photo where anyone is smiling, even a child. I'm trying to get citizenship for ds & I was told I have to explain, in writing, why I've waited until now to request his citizenship (he's 2)! ffs. for his UK citizenship, I took the photo myself!

Back to earpiercing, footbinding, etc. Sorry for the highjack.

Pip · 20/01/2006 11:24

There are far worse forms of child cruelty here (in Spain) than ear piercing. Half of the parents I see don't bother using child car seats or even seatbelts at times. Now, that really makes me angry and should be banned. Or enforced effectively as I'm sure it already is banned. People here don't pay attention to half the laws.

Meanoldmummy · 20/01/2006 12:25

I do agree, child cruelty and negligence arerife in may forms, which is why I think we should be less complacent about the more widely accepted examples of it. It's not a very difficult line to draw - "don't inflict unnecessary injury or pain on your child, or expose him/her to needless risks". It's a good start in my view

Passionflower · 20/01/2006 14:28

MOM you are my (more eloquent by far) soul mate. Can we start an anti-bridezilla and baby earpiercing club? Can we? Can we? Pleasssse

Meanoldmummy · 20/01/2006 14:46

OK!!! But you'll find I really am quite a nuisance in polite company...

Passionflower · 20/01/2006 16:44

Cool!

Deffinately think they should regulate the piercing thing though.

We went to a piercing parlour en famile because DH wanted to get his other nipple done (don't ask me why!). So he says to the guy in the parlour can you do a nipple now and the guy says is it for DD1 because she look too young?(She is only 5!!!)

He said he actually gets people in supporting their kids in wanting this and he has to say no if they're under 16.

Dinosaur · 20/01/2006 16:46

I wouldn't get my own children's ears pierced but I really don't understand why it gets other people so very wound up.

Meanoldmummy · 20/01/2006 16:58

Um....because it's painful, dangerous and an assault on a child too young to make its own choices?!?!

colditz · 20/01/2006 17:06

I believe it is not acceptable to make a child bleed when there is no benefit to them to have it done.

If a child was made to bleed in any other way, it would be roundly condemned as abuse, not tossed aside as something that doesn't matter.

It is an injury that leaves a permenant mark - surely this is now completely illegal?

SauerKraut · 20/01/2006 17:07

My mother always says her mother always says if there's nothing wrong with yourself, leave yourself alone. Pretty good maxim IMO!! Especially for babies, who have enough problems anyway!

Mercy · 20/01/2006 17:10

I really can't believe some of the views on this thread - I agree with you Dinosaur.

Meanoldmummy; your comments in your last post could also be levelled at vaccinations

HRHQueenOfQuelNoel · 20/01/2006 17:11

wow this thread is still going??

Meanoldmummy · 20/01/2006 17:29

Not really, because there is a proven medical benefit - and an avoidance of greater risk/danger - in vaccinations. What are the earrings protecting the child against? What a preposterously tenuous comparison.

Mercy · 20/01/2006 17:59

Preposterous and tenuous - of course it is! So are many of the comments on here!

JennyLee · 20/01/2006 23:04

"Not America-bashing as such - but I don't like racial assumptions to be made on the basis of opinions I express about child cruelty. Especially when they're wrong "

Doesn't feel good does it meanoldmummy? when people think you are being racist when you don't intend to be interpreted that way?
mmmmm

lockets · 20/01/2006 23:10

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Meanoldmummy · 20/01/2006 23:12

So do you agree then??!?!

Meanoldmummy · 20/01/2006 23:13

And JennyLee - read on a little. There was never any question of racism... because unlike you I don't suffer from delusions of superiority. Don't waste my time

lockets · 20/01/2006 23:15

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