What is your Body Piercing Policy?

[Anonymous]

I took my oldest daughter to get her nose, eyebrow, and lip pierced on her 16th birthday (Tennessee). She looked really cute with them. I have my nose and eyebrow pierced. Tats are different. I won't sign for a minor to get a tat. I have a sleeve of music down my left arm and a single treble clef on my right wrist, so I have no problem with them, I just think that ink should be an adult decision to make. Piercings grow back up, so no big deal. My oldest daughter let her lip piercing grow closed after a while. She kept swallowing the balls and she finally got tired of that. She's almost 20 now. She's the only one of my six who wanted piercings as a minor. Only one of my six has tats.

[Anonymous]

Body piercing & tattoo policy is this: No. We take trash out of the house, not into it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Kid is not a teen yet...but I would okay it with kids own money for any piercing except tongue. I am not paying all this money to fix teeth that are just going to get damaged by a piercing.

This is how we feel. Daughter is a freshman. Many of her friends have a hood or labia piercing. She now wants one. Hasn’t decided on which.

I like that it won’t affect her since it’s not visible.

Jesus.

What’s you issue? These piercings are at the “safe” end of the spectrum health wise. The riskier ones are tongue (occasional dental issue), cartilage, and those going through mucous membranes.

[Anonymous]

Anyone’s kiddo approached them about nipple piercings?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Body piercing & tattoo policy is this: No. We take trash out of the house, not into it.

I beg to differ. You're allowed in your house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Body piercing & tattoo policy is this: No. We take trash out of the house, not into it.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She can get as many as she wants on her ear and if she wanted her navel or nose pierced I'd allow it at 16. Other than that she has to wait until she's 18. I personally think all other facial piercings like lip, eyebrow, tongue, etc, are trashy-looking so really the only reason is I wouldn't want to look at it so I'm not giving permission. Not sure what I'd do if she skirted parental consent laws for one of those but I probably wouldn't turn it into a huge deal or punish.

This is my practice too.

[Anonymous]

My son wants his lip pierced (16), but I am against the idea because he plays travel soccer and rec basketball, and I'm concerned about potential injuries. Otherwise, I wouldn't care too much. He could always take it out, it's just not a great idea with as much contact sports as he plays.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son wants his lip pierced (16), but I am against the idea because he plays travel soccer and rec basketball, and I'm concerned about potential injuries. Otherwise, I wouldn't care too much. He could always take it out, it's just not a great idea with as much contact sports as he plays.

Even earrings must be removed for soccer. So your fear of his injury really isn’t valid in this situation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Body piercing & tattoo policy is this: No. We take trash out of the house, not into it.

You seem nice.

[Anonymous]

I don't know but our new minister's wife has piercings it caused quite the uproar among some.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Body piercing & tattoo policy is this: No. We take trash out of the house, not into it.

My parents were against all of this too. So I went and got a lot of tattoos on my own as soon as I could. I married a guy who also had a lot of tattoos. We must be a really trashy family.

My own kids don’t ever want tattoos because they think their (now old) parents look stupid with them and ours are not cool anymore, especially according to teens. As for piercings, I would take my kids if they repeatedly asked because I want them to go to a safe and clean place. At least piercings can be taken out if they change their minds later.

[Anonymous]

^reading some of these responses, I’m not sure how I would react if they asked for private areas to be pierced. That’s something they would have to do on their own when they are adults, not with mom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^reading some of these responses, I’m not sure how I would react if they asked for private areas to be pierced. That’s something they would have to do on their own when they are adults, not with mom.

Why?

In terms of safety, they generally have the fewest complications as far as piercings go.

[Anonymous]

Only ears. Everything else they want pierced has to wait until age 18 and they pay for it themselves.

The younger people I know usually regret the other piercings in a couple of years and take them out.