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What do you think on ear peircing?

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horsecrazy · 06/09/2006 21:15

My eight year old has nagged and nagged me to have her ears peirced and I finally curcumed today and she had them peirced. They look really nice and she loves them. How do other people feel about this?

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Thomcat · 06/09/2006 21:17

On an 8 yr old, acceptable.
It's just babies I have a huge problem with.
I had mine done when i was 7.
8's ok.

NewTermAtMaloryTowers · 06/09/2006 21:18

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mrsjingles · 06/09/2006 21:23

I'm in the same boat, my almost 8 yr old reeeaaallly wants hers done, I had said not til your 13, which was how old I was. I'm now thinking why 13, or should I surprise her and let her have them done for her 8th birthday. To be honest, loads of the girls her age in school do have them pierced, so am I being a bit old fashioned in the waiting til she's 13 malarkey. Sorry, not meaning to hijack your thread.

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horsecrazy · 06/09/2006 21:26

mrsjingles this is how I feel and why I gave in. I always said 16. But all her friends have them done.

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Charleesunnysunsun · 06/09/2006 21:26

Same as most people TBH

I can't stand people who have young babies done or toddlers but if i had a daugter or ds asked and he was old enough to take the responsibility to clean them ann ect then i would let them about 7 or 8.

Emskilou · 06/09/2006 21:27

Babies and toddlers is just wrong IMO but I had mine one when I was 8 only because I could look after them myself tho, if they got manky my nan (she brought me up) said she'd take them out and throw them away!!

Twiglett · 06/09/2006 21:27

not till they're teenagers as a rite of passage

I hate seeing children with pierced ears .. I am revulsed by babies with pierced ears .. its up there with pre-pubescents in inapporpriate clothing like midriff tops and wedges ..

melrose · 06/09/2006 21:27

I nagged my Mum and she said 13, but when it came down to it I waited till later as became "uncool". Also went through a big teenage faze of not ewaering earings at all. Personally I hate seeing kids with pierced ears but maybe that is just me. Also agree about the safety at school for sports etc (my Mum was a PE teacher and can tell some horror storieson that one) and the fact taht they need to be old enough to put their own earrings in and out

Charleesunnysunsun · 06/09/2006 21:29

I have had mine done loads of time's as a kid i always let them heal up in fact they need doing again. But when i was a teen rebel i had everything pierced!

FrogBellyRatBone · 06/09/2006 21:31

I'm with NewTermAtMaloryTowers on this one. Think they are uneccessary and dangerous at that age - having had a friend who caught hers and tore her lobe.

Blondilocks · 06/09/2006 21:31

I'm not really sure. I don't like them on babies / young children.

I had mine done when I was 19.

LO wants them done but is a bit weary of the pain - she asked me if it hurt & I told her I thought it did, but I was glad I had it done & it didn't hurt that long.

My gut feeling (& OH's) is to wait until she's 14 ish but if she really wanted them done sooner I would have to decide at the time - decide whether she's responsible enough to look after them etc.

I also think that it's worth paying a bit extra for a proper pair of earrings when they are pierced. Mine were pierced with white gold studs which cost £22 & I went to a proper jewellers. A few months before my potential SIL went & had hers done somewhere for £5 with reasonably cheap metal. I'm sure it depends on the person but she had a reaction whereas I didn't.

sweetkitty · 06/09/2006 21:32

Personally I'd say about 12, I had mine done at 5 I think. 8's not that bad really.

Again I hate pierced ears on babies or toddlers.

Astrophe · 06/09/2006 21:33

I saw a baby today, about 6 months old, and she had in HUGE gold earings - about as big as a 50p coin. It looked absolutely awful IMO. Whats the need to tart up a baby? They are so lovely and sweet and innocent and don't need to be wearing earings (or mini skirts, or little skimpy tops...or...)

A DD who is pleading to get them done is different I agree, and it wouldn't look nearly as bad on a 8 year old, but my DD will be waiting until shes 13.

Blondilocks · 06/09/2006 21:41

I probably wouldn't let her wear big earrings until she was older. I worry about mine getting caught sometimes, so would be terrified of hers getting caught! Different when they're a bit older though.

Mind you LO is very careful with mine & a friend of mine let her put an earring in. My mum & I were sat there cringing... eek. I'm not that brave.

Cassoulet · 06/09/2006 21:46

I don't mind them on babies when the earrings are very small. dd started pleading for them at 4yo and I told her 16 - ha ha in fact we both had them done last year when she was 6 mainly because we thought she'd be able to deal with them herself (put in, take out - I didn't mind cleaning her ears for her). We were supposed to keep them in for 6m, which we did, and she was so excited about taking them out and wearing some dangly ones at Xmas but then she couldn't get dangly ones in, and then she couldn't get the studs in either. Nor could I. Her holes have closed up now and she hasn't mentioned earrings for months. I think she might wait until she's 16 after all!

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horsecrazy · 06/09/2006 21:47

LOL Cassoulet

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hulababy · 06/09/2006 21:49

As DD isn't allowed to wear earings at all at her current school thnen she won't be having them done to 11 at earliest. Can see point before that as, if anything like mine, they'd heal over during the week at school.

Really don't like earings on babies and little children.

I had mine done at 10, but they got infected and healed over within a fe wmonths. had them done again at 13 and, despite lookign after them, they healed over whenever I went a few days without them. I had then repirced again last year, aged 33, and have to keep earings in all the time now. DD was with me at the time. It went through all the scar tissue and was painful She states she doesn't want hers done till she is 100 now

Thomcat · 06/09/2006 21:50

I might not have a problem with pierced ears on an 8 yr old but I won't let me DD's get theirs pierced till much later. I just wouldn't stare horrified, jar on floor if I saw an 8yr old with her ears pierced.

pollyesther · 06/09/2006 21:54

Like everyone else, i detest seeing them on babies and small children. Friends say the age that feels right is usually the age you were when you had yours done. Meaning my dd will be 7(though i have to admit that does seem young now!)

nutcracker · 06/09/2006 22:03

My Dd's were about 2.6. I had mine done at the same age and haven't been scarred for life physically or mentally and so didn't see a prob with it.

Both only wear studs and I supply plasters to cover them up if they have forgotten to take them out for pe etc. Neither of them have ever had any probs.

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horsecrazy · 06/09/2006 22:04

Nutcracker thanks....you reminded me to supply plasters!!

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donnie · 06/09/2006 22:10

babies and toddlers with pierced ears look like sad little chavs IMO. Why do they have to be decorated and tarted up like that? why can't their little ears be left alone FFS?

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nappyaddict · 06/09/2006 22:34

i was 4 .. but only because my sister who was 9 had hers done and i wanted mine done too. when i was 8 i had another set done (cos my friend had) and then when i was in secondary school ( can't remember the age) i had the very top done - now i rarely remember to wear earrings so much so i am quite annoyed with myself when i forget to put them in on a night out!

MamaG · 06/09/2006 22:46

I hate hate hate little ones with pierced ears, so much. Just awful.

My DD will have to be well into her teens.

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