At what age did you allow your DD to have pierced ears?

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I suspect this topic has been done before.

My DD isn't age 3 until July, so she's very young but she loves my pierced ears and often asks me about it and wanting some too.

The question is, when is a reasonable age to allow her to do this. Without a) other parents looking in horror at her ears and then me b) she'll leave the earrings alone and not try and remove them etc

I got mine done at 16 as we weren't allowed to wear earrings/ any jewellery at all at school.

I shall follow suit and my DD can have hers pierced at 16 too.

I had mine done in the summer holiday before I started high school - I was 13. I will do the same with DD (If she wants them done) - it's a nice beginning to all the rights of passage in goring to high school, becoming an adult etc. We weren't allowed to wear them at high school, but they had healed up before I started.

Also, I think kids should be left unpierced for as long as possible so they can enjoy the rough & tumble of play & being a child without worrying about getting their earings ripped out.

I cringe when I see young babies/girls with pierced ears.

DD1 - 11 years old
DD2 - still hasn't had hers done and she's 12

I loathe seeing young girls with their ears pierced. I don't care if it is cultural or not, I just think it is utterly vile. They are children not Girls World dolls.

I had mine pierced when I was 6 weeks old apparently. I wore hoops all the times and one ear got torn when it got caught on a friend's finger whilst going down a slide.

DD had hers done when she was 11 - to be honest she wore her studs, took them out a couple of months later (for rugby) and didn't bother putting them back in. The holes closed up in the end.

She has asked to have her belly button done OVER MY DEAD BODY (she is 14)

Agree - just because it's a cultural thing doesn't mean it's 'right' or should be adopted here. It's a horrible thing to see on very young children.

My DD12 has been asking about having her ears pierced for years, and of course ALL her friends have theirs pierced, and it's not fair...

This is one thing I've managed to stay strong about. I've told her: Age 13 (on her birthday if need be) and not a day sooner.

Perhaps IABU but I find pierced ears on little kids totally off-putting.

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OP- my DD - now 21- used to love all kinds of things I had as a grown up woman- but that didn't means I was going to allow her to have them/it.

Start acting like a mum- not pandering to her every whim.

I hate children and babies with pierced ears.

You also have to think about infections- my DD struggled to keep her new "holes" infection-free- just her skin- but she had to bathe them meticulously for weeks.

would you do that for a 3 yr old?

Purple re-read whole thread as I've commented many times since the original post and then said I wouldn't be doing it soon in post on 26-Apr-10 23:05:42 and also Mon 26-Apr-10 20:23:43.

I'd stopped reading this thread now I knew what was normal on piercing ears. (See other posts of mine for reasons for asking original question). But just stumbled across your rather unkind and aggressive post.

"Start acting like a mum- not pandering to her every whim." That's a horrible thing to say, you know nothing about me and I do not pander to her every whim.

I think on that note I'll hide this thread, as I'd made my decision on what age from the lovely and kind advice I'd received from other mumsnetters already.