Ear piercing of babies, what do you think?

[mamadadawahwah]

Sometimes i think i live in a romany gypsy camp the number of babies i see with pierced ears and jewellery dangling from their little wrists. Having never adopted the courage to get my own ears pierced, i cant imagine piercing a little baby's ears. Its brutal and so common! What gives with this practice? In my opinion, its mutilation. The dangling bracelets are a health hazard to little ones, and i fear they could break their arms if they got them tangled in their sweaters.

What gives with this?

well, i come from a culture in which babies have ears pierced, but tbh, even then the reason is purely cosmetic.

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im comman !!!

common

Hmm... I can feel a statistic coming on ... 8 out of 10 toddlers with pierced ears who expressed a preference, said they preferred turkey twizzlers, as compared to 4 out of 10 non-pierced toddlers who preferred organic asparagus spears...

dd has her ears pieierced and has never ever eaten turkey twizzlers or them dinosaur things so there

looks common and unnecessary to gild the lily

and she wears rebock classics does that mean i am a .....

chav

her earings are 22 karat so does that make me a posh chav!!!!!!

from an aussie website go to page four

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JoolsToo

Aimsmum, I'll hold my wheest 9spelling??) , but you can see I've married well

Some of you are unbeliveable you know that.

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Well he thinks he's posh now he's married an Essex Girl {pmsl). He puts on his Newton Mearns accent when he's talking to my family but I haven't a clue what he's saying when he's "back up the road". He's lovely btw

mamadadawahwah have read no replies but totally agree it's brutal and common

Jasper, i know. Vane attempts have been made on the thread to justify it and they just dont stand up. My kid came into this world with a certain number of "natural" holes in his body, and until he makes his own decisions, thats the way its gonna stay!

when I went to have my tongue pierced The piercer told me that they won't do pierce under 18's tongue because its classed as a sexual piercing

I had my ears pierced as a baby. It was a cultural thing. I did comtemplate piercing my daughters ears but decided that I would wait until they asked. I'm sure that for many people the reason is purely cosmetic. If I were to get my girls' ears pierced then it would be cosmetic because my only cultural reference is the fact that my family, ancestors etc have done it. Personally, I don't think that it is a "common" thing, or a "chav" and I certainly don't think that it is brutal. Doing things because it is cosmetic shouldn't really bother any of us. There are plenty of things that we all do because of cosmetic reasons.

Anyway, haven't read much of the thread but didn't like the "brutal" comment. However, whatever floats your boat. Just coz you don't like it doesn't mean that no one else should. (btw, I can't even remember who made the comment and this isn't personal to you).

i think these creatures would pierce their kids ears before they were born

mama....I dread the idea my three physically perfect tiny children may well one day come home with undesireable piercings or tatoos .
The idea I would arrange to punch holes in them just now for decorative purposes is beyond contempt.

apart from anything else I have NO time..

RTM what do you mean by a cultural thing?

Does that make it ok?

As parents none of us are perfect, hence we all make good and bad decisions. Piercing a baby is a bad decision even if of itself it does not make you a bad parent.

Find it strange that people can deny that it hurts as well.

When I was a baby all of my family, incl the babes had pierced ears. If you look at African tribes they have pierced ears. I mean cultural as in family/heritage tradition. I decided that it wasn't one that I wanted to follow. Eating rice and peas and jerk chicken is a cultural tradition. It is one that I was brought up in. Over the past few years it became trendy to eat rice and peas and jerk chicken and curry goat. It wasn't trendy to me, it was lifestyle. That's what I mean by cultural. If it is not your culture and it is not something that you want to do then fine! That doesn't mean that all traditions are good ones. However, just because it is not something that you are comfortable with doesn't make it either brutal or wrong. There are lots of things that I see that were "black" culture that have become trendy, seasonal etc. No problems there, but when people decide that the trend is over then the derogatory comments begin. Where does that leave people who have always done something? Black boys have cornrowed their hair for years and years. David Beckham does it once and it becomes this new trendy thing and black boys (and girls) are stopped and told that they are sporting a Beckham hairdo. That's what I mean by culture vs trend. Hope I didn't ramble but my mother, her mother, my aunts and great aunts etc weren't being cosmetic nor brutal.