Tattooed Parents

[Pandora2387]

So, I saw a post today on FB, it was an article on Tattooed Parents, I read it and I thought it was a load of rubbish personally. I don't get the stigma about tattooed parents and how they can set a bad example for their kids just by having them and I was wondering what you lovely people think on this subject. I have tattoos myself and if, when my daughter was old enough to have them, she wanted tattoo's I would fully support her in it. Is this right or is it what some people would call 'Bad Parenting'?

As a church goer and therefore terribly judgemental I really don't see the correlation between tattoos and bad parenting. I don't believe or think tattoos effect anyone's parenting skills.
I like 'good' tattoos - as opposed to the hot mess Harry Styles has - but don't want one myself. I used to, so tried some henna ones and I really didn't like it.
As for ear spacer things, I just don't get the attraction. My ears hurt if the earring post it too fat, I don't fancy the pain of intentionally making the hole bigger.

The only time I object to tattoos is when they're shit. It just strikes me as laziness when there are so many brilliant artists working in the UK; it's not like it's hard to find a good one!

But anyway. I have tattoos; some of the best parents I know do too. I seriously wouldn't give it a second thought OP. The kind of person who's going to assume tattoos make you a bad parent probably isn't someone you'd want to associate with anyway (I know I wouldn't).

I know people who judge others just for having a tattoo, without knowing much else about the person or the tattoo, and I think it's ridiculous.

I had been telling a group of friends that I was feeling annoyed that my mum had been critical of my parenting. Later in the evening, the conversation turned to tattoos. I mentioned that I didn't have one but my mum and sister both did. One of the friends gasped "What?!? Your mum's got a TATTOO and she's judging YOU on your parenting?!?" I didn't really get the link between the two. My mum shouldn't be judging my parenting because she shouldn't be judging me, having a tattoo is neither here nor there...

Judging a person just by the mere existence of a tattoo says a lot more about the person doing the judging than it does about the person with the tattoo!!

I'm American & there are a lot of tats in the extended family. We have lawyers, business-men, fashion buyers, hair dressers, fundy evangelical types, teachers, engineers: nobody gives a Fig about anybody's tats.

No, I tell a lie, there is a fair amount of showing off. Not as much squealing as a new pair of high heels might cause, but even so, tats can be worthy of admiration.

In family fun swim sessions I think about 1/2 of adults I see have tats. I only mind the pornographic ones.