Would you let a very mature teen get a tattoo?

[Anonymous]

What’s wrong with waiting until she’s 18?

She’ll appreciate it more once she waits for it. Plus it’s just not the same when you get a tattoo with your mom. It’s supposed to be a right of passage into adulthood. Getting it early sounds good, but it’s going to feel very anticlimactic to be doing something adult while mommy holds your hand. I’m getting “cool mom” energy from you.

[Anonymous]

No, but only because tattoos are trashy. If it were something I would approve of on an 18yo that my mature 17yo couldn’t do without parental permission, I’d allow it for my mature 17yo.

[Anonymous]

What?! No.
I have enough tattoos that most people on this board would call me trashy and I would never let my underage child get a tattoo.
Can you stop them when they turn 18? No.
But I can promise you that no one worth getting a tattoo from would be willing to work on a minor regardless of parental consent.
Ugh. No. No. No.
And please talk to your child about the myriad temporary (and very realistic) looking tattoos available.

[Anonymous]

Funny so many women here love a book about a hedonistic man who uses women for sex and money and never ages while they hit the wall and get old and undesirable.

Seems to be the extreme opposite of every thread in the Relationship Forum part of the site.

[Anonymous]

Your teen isn't mature if they want a tattoo. No

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your teen isn't mature if they want a tattoo. No

+1. You’re kidding yourself OP

[Anonymous]

Reputable places will not do this until 18. That’s from experience with our child seeking one.

[Anonymous]

I'd tell her id appreciate her maturity in coming to me and dad first but wait to her 18th birthday and if she still wants it then you'll make it her birthday gift.

[Anonymous]

No. My husband got a very meaningful, small tattoo - DOB of dead father - and regrets it. I know other people that regret them as well.

The kid should wait as long as possible before getting.

[Anonymous]

No.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That’s my 17 year old DD’s favorite book, too, and I can totally see her wanting that tattoo. I would probably tell her to wait until she’s 18. Tattoos shouldn’t be rushed.

Tattoos shouldn't be legal.

[Anonymous]

How long a line of prose? How many square inches would that thing be? Ugh.

[Anonymous]

Neither OP nor OP’s daughter is old enough to know text tattoos age terribly. Any kind of fine work is going to look smushed and blurry, possibly before the daughter is legally old enough to get it.

[Anonymous]

Sure, but only a large facial tattoo so there is no mystery about her maturity level and class level.

Tattoos are the height of filth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My God. No. A developmental characteristic of teens is a mistaken belief they will always feel as they do now. For example that they will always like a certain tattoo… or even book.

+1