Ear-piercing, the correct age

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Call me old fashioned but DD has to wait until she is 18. She is 15 now.

You'll be lucky if all she does at 18 is put two holes in her ears.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Call me old fashioned but DD has to wait until she is 18. She is 15 now.

You'll be lucky if all she does at 18 is put two holes in her ears.

3:39 You must have low expectations for your own child. Why not emphasize the positive outcome?

It seems reasonable for PP to ask her DD to wait until age 18 for piercings. I'd add tattoos also.

[Anonymous]

I'm AA and had my ears pierced as a baby. Most African American children that I know fall under the same category as well.

[Anonymous]

I'm honestly surprised this is even a debate. My parents were very conservative about ear piercing, and I thought that was something of the past. Even so, they ended up letting me do it when I was 10, which doesn't even seem that old compared to what some people are saying.

I think anytime is totally fine, as long as she knows how to care for them and is willing to take responsibility for doing so.