S/O At what age did you get your child's ears pierced

[Anonymous]

Curious about when the mutilation/"omg you're so trashy" folks actually let their kids have their ears pierced, if at all.

[Anonymous]

When they're old enough to understand that the procedure is painful but decide they want their ears pierced anyway.

[Anonymous]

My father asked my mother to wait until I was old enough to ask for holes in my ears myself. Fair enough! Of course as soon as I started really talking, I asked to get my ears pierced.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When they're old enough to understand that the procedure is painful but decide they want their ears pierced anyway.

+1. Unless absolutely indisputably necessary, I'm not going to alter my child's body or submit her to anything that I know in advance will hurt until she is able to decide for herself whether she wants it, and to give her informed consent.

[Anonymous]

Straight after Birth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When they're old enough to understand that the procedure is painful but decide they want their ears pierced anyway.

+1. Unless absolutely indisputably necessary, I'm not going to alter my child's body or submit her to anything that I know in advance will hurt until she is able to decide for herself whether she wants it, and to give her informed consent.

Same. I asked my daughter if she wanted to when she was around six. She said no. Around ten she started getting very interested in other people's pierced ears. A few months before turning 11 she told me she was ready and I made an appointment at a tattoo parlor. Now she's 12.5 and just yesterday I mentioned to her "You haven't been wearing earrings lately, what's up with that?" She was given a lot of cutesy earrings from Grandma that she feels are babyish. I asked if she's still glad she got her ears pierced and I got a very enthusiastic yes.

[Anonymous]

When she asks. I got mine pierced at 25 - wasn't interested before!

[Anonymous]

When she asked. which was 3. She loves them and hasn't had any issues (now is 7). Then again, I circumcised my boys and determine what my kids eat/where they are raised etc so my boundaries surrounding this are different than others who pretend that their infants have autonomy of choice.

[Anonymous]

DD asked at 8 - got it just before turning 9. I don't have mine done.

[Anonymous]

Sixteen. Not a second before their sixteenth birthday if they want to have it done (one DD didn't want to while the other did).

My feeling is that it is their body and their choice. I would never force a piercing on my baby any more than I would a tattoo.

[Anonymous]

9 months. She liked my earrings so I figured she'd want some of her own. I was right. She's now 25 and has always loved wearing earrings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When they're old enough to understand that the procedure is painful but decide they want their ears pierced anyway.

+1. Unless absolutely indisputably necessary, I'm not going to alter my child's body or submit her to anything that I know in advance will hurt until she is able to decide for herself whether she wants it, and to give her informed consent.

Same. I asked my daughter if she wanted to when she was around six. She said no. Around ten she started getting very interested in other people's pierced ears. A few months before turning 11 she told me she was ready and I made an appointment at a tattoo parlor. Now she's 12.5 and just yesterday I mentioned to her "You haven't been wearing earrings lately, what's up with that?" She was given a lot of cutesy earrings from Grandma that she feels are babyish. I asked if she's still glad she got her ears pierced and I got a very enthusiastic yes.

+1 Same here. She was 10. She now is 16 and has 3 holes in lobe and 1 in upper ear cartilage (she's starting to regret this one because it's taking so long to heal and is still painful.)

[Anonymous]

I had mine done at 12. It was painful, and the holes kept closing up and getting infected despite my mother and I doing everything we were supposed to do, for several years.

I told my daughter she could have her ears pierced, if she wanted to, after the age of 12. She's almost 13, and has no interest so far. She's a soccer player, and couldn't wear them most of them week to practice or games, in any case

[Anonymous]

I am 38 with unpierced ears. I've managed to survive in this world.

I refuse to be responsible for the hygiene part of my child having pierced ears. If she gets them, she needs to care for them. I will allow it under if she really wants them, but she is 9 and still is disgusting with her bathroom habits, so I'm not thinking that responsibility is going to magically appear anytime in the near future.

[Anonymous]

Daughters ears pierced straight after birth.