Anonymous
Post 12/04/2024 09:01     Subject: Age for ear piercing
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Anonymous wrote:I don’t see why a four year old needs earrings?


So what age would you say “needs” earrings?


Old enough to have a sense of permanence about bodily modifications and their own aesthetic. So maybe 11-13?


I mean, someone who gets tired of them can just take them out. It's not a neck tattoo.


I haven’t worn earrings in a decade and the holes have not closed and are still easily visible. It’s scar tissue. They never go away.


Mine also have never closed up, I got mine as a baby though say maybe if you get it younger if stays

Not necessarily. I got my ears pierced as an infant and the holes closed up in elementary school after a stretch of not wearing earrings.
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2024 05:38     Subject: Age for ear piercing
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Anonymous wrote:My four year old (almost 5) keeps asking to get her ears pierced. What if she changes her mind at the store? I would be so embarrassed. Or she does one and won’t do the other.


OMG. Who cares if you're embarrassed or not? What a bad parent.

We waited until our girls were 5 then took them to a piercing shop where they did both ears at once. Easy peasy. My first had recently received a flu shot and said the ear piercing hurt less than the flu shot.


Why are you criticizing someone’s parenting over ear piercings. Get over yourself. Wtf was in that flu shot?
Anonymous
Post 12/03/2024 23:59     Subject: Age for ear piercing
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don’t see why a four year old needs earrings?


So what age would you say “needs” earrings?


Old enough to have a sense of permanence about bodily modifications and their own aesthetic. So maybe 11-13?


I mean, someone who gets tired of them can just take them out. It's not a neck tattoo.


I haven’t worn earrings in a decade and the holes have not closed and are still easily visible. It’s scar tissue. They never go away.


Mine also have never closed up, I got mine as a baby though say maybe if you get it younger if stays
Anonymous
Post 12/03/2024 23:51     Subject: Age for ear piercing
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don’t see why a four year old needs earrings?


So what age would you say “needs” earrings?


Old enough to have a sense of permanence about bodily modifications and their own aesthetic. So maybe 11-13?


I mean, someone who gets tired of them can just take them out. It's not a neck tattoo.


I haven’t worn earrings in a decade and the holes have not closed and are still easily visible. It’s scar tissue. They never go away.


Funny if I don't wear earrings for a week mine start to close up and it's a pain (literally) to get them back in. Bodies are different.