The baby/toddler ear piercing debate

hahahahahahahahaha R & J

Haha Kel, now that would be an interesting thing for our boys to ask if they can have done.

not something I have given much thought to to be honest since I have 3 sons but I do have a friend who has a 6 year old who is asking to get hers done, she has decided it will be a 10th birthday thing, to celebrate the double digits and hopefully she will be old enough and responsible enough to care for them

Hmm just saw this... naughty of me to miss a debate

I'm like fattarts (wow, how often does THAT happen?!), I think it looks tacky on babies/toddlers.

As for me, I will continue with the family tradition of children not getting ears pierced until they are old enough to take care of them, themselves - ie 10. If they want them, they can learn to turn the piercings, put stuff on them if they start getting infected etc etc. Not my problem

Lol Emz
I think it happens more often than we would think lol

I got mine done on my 10th birthday and i remember asking for years and getting told 'not till your older', then the day of my birthday my dad took me into the pharmacy (i hadn't asked that day tho) and he said 'you want you ears pierced go pick some earrings'
I remember picking them and sitting in the chair, he checked the dots were even and away the gun went. I did cry after the first one and wanted not to follow thru with the second but it was over so quick i walked out of there thinking i looked a-maz-ing!

Just from that i know that anytime before then i wouldn't of been ready, i did really appreciate and look after them so i would never let a child of mine get them before 10.

Trouble is once they get there ears done, they want there belly button done haha.

fattartsrock wrote: Call me old fashioned but if my son gets his ears peirced it will be without my blessing. Yuck.

Haha, I won't be combining it with a mullet and a Holden/Ford jacket, though, that's for sure.

haha DP pierced his own ears when we were 18... muppet actually not sure if he has an earing anymore thats how much I pay attention lol.

I know my brother at school made a fake earring out of a paperclip.

I don't mind it and am prepared for it. Don't have boys yet so not a big deal

I'll be getting Lily's ears done - and I'll be doing them myself (I am a qualified body piercer).

I think half the problem is that people get them done with the gun at the chemist, so the wee ears really really hurt and can get infected and swollen. When they are done properly with a piercing blade (the needle) you dont get said problems. The gun forces the earring thru the ear and s tretches the flesh and skin causing mega stress on the area whereas the blade slices a nice neat little path thru the flesh and the healing time is minimal compared to the gun. It does bleed for a few mins sometimes tho but stops quickly!

My ears were pierced before I knew what was going on, 32 years later and I've NEVER had problems with them. My sister who waited until she was 14 has had nothing but problems with them from constantly touching and changing the earrings.

Just on a side note, as a piercer there are super duper strict guidelines that we have to follow when it comes to piercing under-agers. Theres not an actual law on what you can and cant do, but local councils have by-laws on age limits. Auckland for example has the age limit set at 18, unless you have parental consent. I remember working in newmarket and a whole group of kids came in wanting belly buttons done - they all had 'letters' from parents. I rang all the parents to make sure and not one of them had actually given permission :P Anyway that was OT and i'll shut up now LOL