Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looking around my daughter's friends, the ones with multiple piercings (many of which they did themselves) are the same ones who started with stick and poke tattoos and now look like toddlers who got into the stickers... but much less cute. And forever.

Just sayin... the second piercing maybe isn't a big deal. But at what point are you going to act like the adult and slow the kid's descent down that slippery slope?

Oh please!!!!!! Make sure she only wears skirts down to her heels too, and a chastity belt. What a ridiculous statement.

Hyperbole is not a good look on you. You sound like a very silly person and I don't think you belong in this conversation. I mean, if you can't tell the difference between chastity belts and a parent tempering the wild impulses of a child...

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looking around my daughter's friends, the ones with multiple piercings (many of which they did themselves) are the same ones who started with stick and poke tattoos and now look like toddlers who got into the stickers... but much less cute. And forever.

Just sayin... the second piercing maybe isn't a big deal. But at what point are you going to act like the adult and slow the kid's descent down that slippery slope?

This is the track I’m taking. I don’t care at all about anything in her ears but want to step through those slow enough for her to develop enough maturity to serve her well by the time she’s making decisions about what’s after her belly button.

Exactly. It seems unwise to let them indulge every impulse at the moment it strikes, because they will grow out of it SO fast, but by then, the damage, literally, is done.

Anonymous wrote:My 15 year old is begging. I keep saying ‘takk to me when you ate old enough to vote,’

I’m pretty sure one day soon she will come home from a sleepover with an extra hole in her head. Is it bad I’m secretly hoping she finds s rebellious streak and does that?

What?? Then just let her do it. Why make her suffer and wait for it if your secretly fine with her getting it. Your gonna wonder why she wont talk to you anymore once she turns 18

For cultural reasons, my kid got her first one at 6 months. She got her second lobe at 11 years. Definitely don’t get anything other than a lobe until high school. I think a second lobe is fine though, it’s like the same as the first one.

My dd has triple piercing. First one at 10, second one at 13, and third one at 14 (she payed for it herself and got it together with a friend.)
We agreed no more piercings and she was happy with that. Just let them do what they want its their body and piercings can always close up if they regret it. I just wouldn't allow a nose, tongue or eyebrow piercing until 16.
Also, make sure to get it done at a good place for minimal infection risk.

13 - she did a great job taking care of the first ones when she was 11, I couldn't think of a good reason not to. I had second piercings in both ears plus one on the top (don't recommend) that are closed up - I got those when I was 23 so I don't feel like this is a forever choice.

My kids seem to be rebelling against anything Millennials do. If a millennial does it, it’s lame. This makes me think tattoos and piercings might be on the way out.

My 15 year old is begging. I keep saying ‘takk to me when you ate old enough to vote,’

I’m pretty sure one day soon she will come home from a sleepover with an extra hole in her head. Is it bad I’m secretly hoping she finds s rebellious streak and does that?

Probably around 12. I was reflexively against it but then figured what is the harm of two pierces? I would not have approved of piercing anywhere but the earlobe.

Anonymous wrote:Looking around my daughter's friends, the ones with multiple piercings (many of which they did themselves) are the same ones who started with stick and poke tattoos and now look like toddlers who got into the stickers... but much less cute. And forever.

Just sayin... the second piercing maybe isn't a big deal. But at what point are you going to act like the adult and slow the kid's descent down that slippery slope?

This is the track I’m taking. I don’t care at all about anything in her ears but want to step through those slow enough for her to develop enough maturity to serve her well by the time she’s making decisions about what’s after her belly button.

Anonymous wrote:Looking around my daughter's friends, the ones with multiple piercings (many of which they did themselves) are the same ones who started with stick and poke tattoos and now look like toddlers who got into the stickers... but much less cute. And forever.

Just sayin... the second piercing maybe isn't a big deal. But at what point are you going to act like the adult and slow the kid's descent down that slippery slope?

Oh please!!!!!! Make sure she only wears skirts down to her heels too, and a chastity belt. What a ridiculous statement.

Looking around my daughter's friends, the ones with multiple piercings (many of which they did themselves) are the same ones who started with stick and poke tattoos and now look like toddlers who got into the stickers... but much less cute. And forever.

Just sayin... the second piercing maybe isn't a big deal. But at what point are you going to act like the adult and slow the kid's descent down that slippery slope?

I pierced my own ears around 13, which is what will happen if you are overly controlling over minor things like this. Let the professionals do it.

She did it without our knowledge or permission, probably 16? Now she's 21 and has 3 in each ear

Anonymous wrote:11 is young, but 18 is an over correction. I think I got my second when I was 12 but I was in 8th grade then. 18 is crazy, I had a third set and cartilage by then.

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