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Jewellery on a baby

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lotty34 · 23/03/2004 18:32

I guess this is down to personnal choice but what do you think about a baby wearing jewellery.

My daughter will be 1 next week and my Gran has bought her a very simple gold bracelet. I am not really sure what I think but my husband is horrified at it and is very against her wearing it. He says he thinks it looks cheap and tacky to put any jewellery on a baby. I agree with him to a point but a little bit of me thinks the braclet is harmless and looks quite pretty on her.

I guess the simple solution is for me to only put it on her when she is in the company of my Gran but it got me thinking about what people think of seeing jewellery on a baby.

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sassy · 30/03/2004 11:38

Surely the signet ring-thing is very dangerous - highly chokable? (As well as in very questionable taste!)What are companies doing making things like this in such tiny sizes?

hercules · 30/03/2004 11:46

They look 'ard that's why!

DS had rings bought for him when he was a baby, not only do I not like jewellery on babies/children, I think it is downright dangerous. I've heard stories of girls having their ears damaged by hoop earings getting caught up on stuff as they play.

bundle · 14/04/2004 18:34

Romeo Beckham has an earring

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LIZS · 14/04/2004 18:55

Yes I saw that on a report yesterday too Bundle -how classy. Does Brooklyn have one too has anyone cared enough to notice ?

2babies · 14/04/2004 19:17

Lotty, a bracelet is the one piece of jewellery that I think looks nice on a baby!

twiglett · 14/04/2004 20:57

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StripyMouse · 14/04/2004 21:16

I hate, no that is not strong enough, I loath jewellery - in terms of adult "proper" jewellery for adults as well as children. I don?t like wearing it, looking at it, buying it, in fact I just plain don?t like the stuff - regardless of quality or cost. It all looks vulgar and rather trashy to me - not much different from wearing a cheque book around your neck or a sign that says "look how much someone is prepared to spend on pointless body decorations just for me...he must really love me a lot and that means I must be important and worthwhile...!!" or, worse, those who feel lost without their "war paint" and "medallions" in order to make them feel prettier and more attractive out in that big bad world....Yeuch...My sister reckons I have a phobia and "problem" about it. She could be right, but is just the way I am.
The most I can bring myself to wear is a plain gold wedding band. However, my DD (nearly 3) is so different from me that it is unbelievable - she loves dressing up, play jewellery and hair stuff. She will sit for hours dressing up and adorning herself, to my utter amasement as I have never ever done those kind of girly things. She must get it from her dad!!

suzywong · 14/04/2004 21:20

don't sit on the fence Stripymouse, tell us what you really think

lou33 · 14/04/2004 21:25

Saw a boy on a train yesterday, aged about 7, wearing a big thick gold chain with a gold motorbike attached to it. Ear pierced too. His mum was a bigger and brasher version, and was sitting opposite me, telling her son she was going to hit him if he didnt do as he was told. She had multiple big gold hooped earrings in each ear and big sovereign rings on.

MADDI · 14/04/2004 21:33

My nephew (age 3) has got a leather biker jacket with a huge skull and crossbones on the back, looks vile, like a mini member of Metallica. In the same vein as earrings, yuck,yuck,yuck.

crystaltips · 14/04/2004 21:36

idle question ....
what's wrong with sovereign rings ....

MADDI · 14/04/2004 21:39

nothing, so long as you don't wear them round your neck.

marialuisa · 15/04/2004 11:38

it's just that I've never seen someone wearing just one sovreign ring. Always at least one on each finger and knuckle duster size....

lou33 · 15/04/2004 11:41

Exactly Marialuisa

bunny2 · 15/04/2004 20:36

also hate small children with those shapes carved out of the side of their hair or with gelled up hair. Sooo pointless and tacky.

3GirlsMum · 01/05/2004 22:41

My DD1 was 8 when she asked me if she could have her ears pierced. I couldnt really say no as I was 7 when I had mine done and had worn my mum down until she would let me have them. As it happened when she get there she changed her mind.

DD2 was 7 when she had hers done. She knew that it would hurt, that she would have to clean them regularly and she would not be allowed dangly earrings like her friend and she still wanted them. I dont see how this age is too young. She is able to put them in and take them out herself and in the main has plain studs or other small earrings like that (although not sleepers).

I think providing the child is able to make the choice and know all about it if they still want it done there is no reason not to. I was born in Gibraltar and my mum said I was one of the only children not to have my ears pierced as a tiny baby!

KateandtheGirls · 02/05/2004 13:22

I really don't like the look of jewelry on babies, and I don't understand why anyone would pierce a baby's ears.

I'm not sure how old my daughters will have to be before they can get their ears pierced. I was 13, but I think younger than that would be OK. As long as they are capable of taking care of them themselves.

My neice is 8 1/2 and is about to get her ears pierced as a reward for doing really well on a test at school. I don't have a problem with that. By the way, her name is Taylor and her sister's name is Morgan. There are a lot of those new trendy names in the US too. My sister-in-law and I don't share the same taste in names.

I got a tattoo last year, which my 4 year old loves, but we have had may discussions about tattoos only being for grown ups, and how they are permanant, so it's a big decision that you need to think very carefully about. But I told her if she wants one when she's a grown up then she can. She's decided she wants 4 of them: Winnie the Pooh, Dora and Boots (from a tv show Dora the Explorer) and a bird like mine.

suzywong · 02/05/2004 13:25

Kate,
What fabulous tast your daughter has, could you persuade her to find a place for Senior Toucan and Tico?

KateandtheGirls · 02/05/2004 13:27

Don't forget Swiper the Fox, Benny the Bull and the Grumpy Old Troll.

suzywong · 02/05/2004 13:29

But god forbid Barney

KateandtheGirls · 02/05/2004 13:38

Funny you should say that.

She is at this very moment watching a Barney video. She has just rediscovered him after at least a year of not watching it.

No, Barney would just be tacky.

noddy5 · 02/05/2004 14:19

surely kids are just perfect without pointless decoration

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