I once saw a picture of a Dad who had his child's drawing tattood on him & thought that was a lovely idea.
I've got my daughter's name is a fancy swirly script with little hearts around it & will get a matching one with this one's name if it's a girl, or a slightly more boyish design if it's a boy.
I also have a big black faded blob sun/moon/cross/peace/infinity/light/dark/ying yang/my name/Take That symbol on my bum I did at 16 which is dreadful but I love it because it was me & everything about my life back then, my first time away from home, first freedom, it is symbolic. I have a domestic violence awareness ribbon as the body of a butterfly to symbolise my freedom from a 12 year hell, an eye of horus to ward off the bad vibes from my ex when he was putting me through hell, "Enough. Believe" in Arabic to remind me enough of the pain, enough punishing myself, enough bad time, I am enough, believe in myself, believe it will get better, believe in karma. I have a chinese symbol with the initial of a lost baby but I founf it too painful to keep so I covered it in cherry blossoms and a flying bird to symbolise my blossoming out of that pain and setting his soul free to fly, as well as myself, I have a butterfly which doesn't mean anything, I just thought it was pretty but I'm having that modified, and a few other little unimportant doodles. I'm planning more of various importance and symbolism. Think is I don't care if others don't like them, because they all mean something to me, they are all important to me and serve a purpose to me, no one else has to like them. In fact no one in my life, even my parents, best friend or ex husband know what the Arabic or Chinese mean. It's about me, not anyone else.