Sports (soccer mostly) and newly pierced ears

[Anonymous]

We had to take my daughter's earrings out for basketball right after getting her ears pierced. We just applied some neosporin to the holes with a q-tip and then cleaned her ears/earrings and reinserted the earrings after the game. We also put some neosporin on the posts and back of the earrings. I feel like it helped them slide into the holes more easily. She did fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

SoccerRef wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You are smart to ask this. My DD got her ears pierced for her 10th birthday, for which she had waited years and was sooo excited. The next week she had a soccer game and the a-hole ref made her take them out despite me yelling at him and my daughter being in tears. He would not accept tape or bandaids over the studs, it was really annoying. Rather than try to put them back in after the game, she decided to wait until the season was over so that she wouldn't have to deal with it every weekend. Smart kid. Although it was another $50 and a trip to the mall.

The ref was not an a-hole.

Yes, the ref was.
If the earnings were securely taped over, the ref should have let her play.

That is not the reason they don't wear them ref dude, the stem has punctured many of kids and an earlobe ripped from the earring being caught on something is not pretty, yes even when tapped

sign an athletic trainer that has plenty of experience tending to ripped earlobes.

Signed, and athletic trainer that apparently has no idea how to safely tape over earrings.

[Anonymous]

Just take the damn things out for the game. Is it really that hard?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just take the damn things out for the game. Is it really that hard?

Yeah, either be willing to do this for 90 mins or wait until off season.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You are smart to ask this. My DD got her ears pierced for her 10th birthday, for which she had waited years and was sooo excited. The next week she had a soccer game and the a-hole ref made her take them out despite me yelling at him and my daughter being in tears. He would not accept tape or bandaids over the studs, it was really annoying. Rather than try to put them back in after the game, she decided to wait until the season was over so that she wouldn't have to deal with it every weekend. Smart kid. Although it was another $50 and a trip to the mall.

You yelled at a referee?

You were 100% in the wrong. Not only to abuse the referee like that, but to second-guess the referee in the first place. The no-jewelry rule is common sense, bandaids aren't good enough, and your child isn't some special snowflake for whom the rules should be bent.

You sound like the worst kind of youth sports parent.

[Anonymous]

We found zero tolerance for jewelry, even newly pierced ears. My daughter had it done between sports when she had weeks for healing. But even after a few months, she sometimes had trouble with getting earrings back in after a three hour practice. I'd say it was many months before there were no problems.

[Anonymous]

Law 5 of the IFAB Laws of the Game states: "All items of jewellery (necklaces, rings, bracelets, earrings, leather bands, rubber bands, etc.) are forbidden and must be removed. Using tape to cover jewellery is not permitted." The referee has no discretion.

Don't yell at the referee and make your daughter cry.