S/o: is it “trashy” of parents to have their infant daughter’s ears pierced?

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Anonymous wrote:Trashy. Identifies your kid as from a poor, uneducated family. Similar to purposeful misspellings of common names. Luckily the kid grows out of this one.

Circumcision is also trashy.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn’t have my daughter’s ears pierced until she asked, but I think babies and toddlers look adorable with little earrings.

+1 to all of this
Though I wish we had held off as my tom boy ended up tearing her ear lobe rough housing. I think in general its fun to leave the choice to the kid but we had bad luck

There’s a kid in my daughters preK with a torn earlobe. Her mom said it happened at 2 and that the plastic surgeon wanted to wait until she was older to fix it. No cute earrings would be worth looking at my daughters permanent injury from something she hadn’t even asked for.

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Anonymous wrote:Someone here on DCUM apparently believes it’s (as she put it) “trashy” of parents to pierce an infant or toddler girls’ ears.

I expressed my view in the original thread (I am deeply offended by this).

But what does the rest of DCUM feel?

If you’re cool with that are you cool with baby tattoos?

I know, I’m taking DD (2) tomorrow to get her first tattoo - I think L-O-V-E right across her baby knuckles or maybe Jesus in a heart in her soft baby bicep. Which one should I go for?

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Anonymous wrote:If you circumcised your son, you don’t get to have an opinion on this.

There are health reasons for SOME men to get circumcised. I cannot think of any for ear piercings

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I'm surprised by how many people think ear piercing is mutilation. I say this as someone who hasn't worn earrings in literally over a decade who hasn't gotten any of her children's ears pierced so this is not coming from a place of defensiveness at all. I just think to qualify as mutilation it has to do more damage than ear piercing does.

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Anonymous wrote:If you circumcised your son, you don’t get to have an opinion on this.

There are health reasons for SOME men to get circumcised. I cannot think of any for ear piercings

Are health reasons for INFANTS to get circumcised? Do share, sweetie.

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Anonymous wrote:The weird thing about it to me is just the why. Now you have a wound you have to manage and the baby dgaf about the earrings, and there’s no advantage I can think of to doing it young?

I really don't understand this - have you never had your ears pierced? You literally spray the ears with saline twice a day and leave them alone. It's really not any more painful than a prick and much easier to manage on a baby than a toddler who is going to be touching it all the time or a teen who lacks personal hygiene and is going to forget to do the spray or want to go swimming with her friends or have to take them out for sports.

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Anonymous wrote:I was raised to believe it was trashy. But now that I have an 11 year old and cannot find a decent place to get her ears pierced, I’m pretty envious of the parents who got it done and don’t have to deal with it now. And of course DD has an insane sports schedule and we can’t figure out how to time the piercing so she can have some time for it to heal and stay clean. It wouldn’t have been a fuss to add piercing cleaning to the other stuff I was already doing when she was tiny.

Also, unpopular opinion that I’ve developed as an adult: babies with tiny little earrings are really cute.

Ears pierced as an infant have to be repierced once most of the time. It's because the ear changes too much during childhood and the holes end up looking bad by the time they are in the teens.

Culture be d****d, there's no reason to do it to a non consenting child.

This is not true. Stop making things out, you racist little piggy pig.

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Anonymous wrote:My four daughters who are now ages 5-12, all got their ears pierced on their 6 month half birthdays, that was just something fun & cute we did. SIL who judged the first time, is now complaining about not being able to find time to pierce my 12yo's nieces ears, and my niece is rightfully upset about it. We have no regrets.

This is really a good reason to get them pierced young - mine got their ears pierced when they were in kindergarten and I'm so glad they did because I don't know when they'd be able to do it now - they each play sports, love to swim in the summer. There would be no good time to be able to leave fresh piercings in for 8 weeks. Do it when they're young in January or you'll have a girl crying because either she can't play her sport for a few weeks or she is forced to take her earrings out to play the sport.

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Anonymous wrote:So many of you are hypocrites, you claim to want immigration and different cultures here in the US but in reality you don't. You plant your lawn signs that say WE BELIEVE ... Immigrants are welcome, but call cultural practices trashy. You are either liberal hypocrites or MAGA.

I don’t think it is unreasonable to expect people who move here to adapt to cultural norms. Americans get criticized for being too loud abroad, not covering enough in Muslim countries etc…turnabout is fair play.

As you can see by this thread, there is no "cultural norm" for getting your ears pierced in America. Just because a bunch of racist rich white women on this board seem to think it's trashy, doesn't make waiting until they are teens a cultural norm. What a joke!

*Also, did anyone else here see the thread where the mom was complaining that her 15 year old went out and got her ears pierced? Momma was crying!!

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Anonymous wrote:I pierced all my girls ears as soon as doctor said it was ok - maybe 12 weeks? I’m Latina and it’s absolutely cultural.

What I find weird is how ear piercing in white culture seems associated with puberty - it’s decoration for your body, not some signal you are entering womanhood.

I think the “trashy” comment is coded language for thinking poor people do it, at least in part because it’s more prevalent in immigrant communities.

It a femininity thing in Latin culture. Why does a baby need to “look” like a girl?

I mean white people put giant bows on their girl babies' heads and dress them in constant pink. Same thing.

You are equating a painful procedure with a bow?

My daughters both said getting their ears pierced was less painful than getting a flu shot. Are you also anti-vax?

We're talking about INFANTS, pp.

Do you talk to your white friends who circumcised their boys about this, btw? Do you talk to them about how they've mutilated their sons' bodies for no reason?

This really shut the white mommas up.

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I am not reading this whole stupid thread, but it is absolutely a cultural thing. So typical for the uptight WASP prudes of DCUM to label it as trashy. News flash: you are not the arbiter of cultural standards. You are the same people who think you "stand with POCs". So clueless and full of sh*t.

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Yes, trashy among white people.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, trashy among judgmental, hypocriticalwhite people.

Fixed it for you.

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Anonymous wrote:Trashy. Identifies your kid as from a poor, uneducated family. Similar to purposeful misspellings of common names. Luckily the kid grows out of this one.

Circumcision is also trashy.

Circumcision is genital mutilation.