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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m curious, too OP. 
I had mine pierced at 13, and my three girls are all desperate to have theirs pierced earlier. 
I’ll be the one to say: it’s trashy to pierce babies’ ears.[/quote]

I never get this.  You guys keep saying it, but no one ever has a good answer as to why its trashy.  SO I think it's trashy to attach that thought to someone's baby. [/quote]

They aren't your ears to pierce. Modifications to your daughter's body should be made at her discretion when she is old enough to make such a decision. I'm not sure how you can do something like this and then turn around and tell her that her body belongs to her. You've already shown very clearly that it belongs to you and to society.[/quote]

Do you feel this way about haircuts as well?  Honest [/quote]

Of course not. Haircuts are not permanent. Surely you can see this difference?[/quote]

Actually not really.  I have a 15 year old (DD) and a 5 year old (DS) and both have never had hair cuts because I don't find them necessary.  (Both have very long hair.)  And IME, ear piercings will close if left alone. The argument that you use that hair cutting is different, I just don't agree with.  Both decisions come from the parent deciding how they want their child to be presented to the world.  Would balding the child be okay? I mean what you consider an acceptable hair cut maybe unacceptable to me (i.e white people that adopt or have African girl children and cut their hair really short because they don't know how to deal with coarse/curly/kinky hair--I personally think that is abuse for a black female child--but I digress).  We can agree to disagree.  No one still has explained why it is considered "trashy".  I mean if you don't like it, fine, don't do it for your kids, but to consider it trashy, to tie that thought to a baby is just as "trashy", so own that as well.

And don't say "Well, I'm not calling the baby trashy" is a lie that you are telling yourself so that you don't feel bad about calling a baby trashy.  [/quote]

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