Parents - Really?????

 This is coming from a grandma who loves pierced ears only...  I was very upset last weekend when my daughter told me she had her 1 yr old daughter's ears pierced.  She was upset with me for being upset with her...

But she has probably forgotten...I had her ears pierced when she was 6.  All was fine until she and a friend were bouncing around on a bed like a trampoline, and she somehow banged her ear.  The stud actually got pushed into her ear lobe.  A doctor got it back where it should be, but by the time we got home, I had to do it over again...but this time it was removed.  She was not allowed to have a repiercing until she was 12!!

I don't want to think what might happen to a tongue...kids are kids...things happen to them.  But why ask for trouble with something that doesn't stop moving???

Granted, I'm an old fart, but, it seems to me that a 6 year old is really not old enough to make the decision for any piercing.  My sons were both teenagers before they got an ear pierced.  Yes, piercings can be temporary, but my second holes show despite the fact that it must be five years since they had an earring in them. 

It's just my humble opinion that having holes put in anyone's body should be by their OWN, considered choice.

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was the fear that somehow it would work itself out and the kid would wind up swallowing it ... however nobody I know has had that problem.

The backs to Riley's earings are screwed and locked on so they can't come off.  TBH I will probably have to go back to the store to have them removed.  I have never taken them out but they twist around fine so they can come off but I don't think I would be able to get her to sit still now to put in another pair.

 LOL, Glenda...My husband refused downright to allow our son to get his ear pierced.  He was not happy with that until the time came that he wanted to become a Marine.  I was always a bit surprised that son didn't do it anyway...guess that says something about how much he really wanted it.

 I remember having ONE ear peirced, when I was 6. I only had one done, because it was sooooo terrible for my little, 6 year old brain. I've had them both peirced, repeatedly, since, and it was no big deal (except that ya know, they won't stay peirced, for whatever reason). I've also had a couple of surgeries, given blood, graduated highschool, and a whole laundry list of other things. I can't imagine body peircings on a young child. I always thought tongues were peirced for recreational purposes, too....

Wow. That's disgusting. Seriously. 6 years old....they're still like babies at that age! I have NO PROBLEM with piercings or tattoos (I have many) but 6 is way too young for a tongue piercing. Are they even in first grade yet? When I was in the first grade I was in bed by 8pm, had 1 hole in each ear, still believed in Santa Clause, watched TGIF w/ my parents....definfitely wasn't thinking about body piercings. In Massachusetts I *think* it's illegal to body pierce a child that young besides ears, I believe 14 in is minimum age. Where I get my piercings/tattoos nobody under 14 is even allowed inside. And yes, there extremely strict (someone checks all ID's at the door, if you're under 18 w/ no ID a parents with a birth certificate needs to be present).

 That's crazy. I don't think ears are a big deal, but maybe just because it's so common. I had it done some time before I could remember the first time, and my ears closed up, with the earring in my ear still. I do remember that. The second time, one of the holes got infected. I came to the conclusion that I can't have anything pierced after that. I can't imagine what person would actually pierce a six year old's tongue. I don't think that's legal here, so maybe some idiot parent does it and did it him/herself.

Hearing some interesting feedback from ER/medical people, and dentists on their thoughts on this...LOL. Yeah...I'm sticking with..."no" LOL. BTW...dentists LOVE...tongue piercings LMBO.

It's not really the piercing itself that I find unnecessary, but a six year old does not get anything they want simply b/c they want it and it doesn't harm anyone else.  I would say no to the piercing, same as I'd say no to the unnecessarily expensive toy, the second game system, etc....

 In my opinion (as someone who has both piercings and tattoo(s)), I don't think anyone who can't decide and care for their own modifications should get them. I concede to ear piercing because of some of the cultural meaning behind it. I didn't have my ears pierced until I was 16, I didn't want them pierced before that. Tongue piercing in small children is completely unacceptable, in my opinion irresponsible, and unethical. No piercer should touch a child under 14/16 depending on state laws, again excepting for ears. I know that I think long and hard about what modifications I want.

Children's pierced ears can strech due to heavy earrings, or be misplaced as the child grows. Taking this into account, imagine the problems a tongue piercing could have!

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 In my opinion (as someone who has both piercings and tattoo(s)), I don't think anyone who can't decide and care for their own modifications should get them.

I agree.  Maddy wanted her ears done when she was 4 so I took her and had them pierced.  That lasted for all of about 7 weeks.  She was playing with the earring that was in her ear and it fell out.  I bought he another set(we were on vacation) and tried to put them in.  She freaked out.  She screamed and kicked and screamed some more.  I finally took the other earring out of her ear and told her point blank, "When you are old enough to take care of you ears by yourself, then you can have them re-pierced."  Needless to say, she hasn't wanted them done again!  The only thing that I have pierced is my ears and OMG!!!  It hurt!!  I'll stick to ink work!  It may not come off but it doesn't hurt!

It's just my humble opinion that having holes put in anyone's body should be by their OWN, considered choice.

I agree, and, just maybe, the choice should be made when the person is mature enough to have already passed through their "rebellious stage."

I wouldn't let any child under 13 get any kind of piercing.  Period, end of discussion.  I know this will make some defensive, but IMHO having any kind of piercing done on a very young child is approaching the arena of child abuse.  A one-year old certainly isn't sitting around just wishing to have her/his ears or anything else pierced, and I'm positive they're much more sensitive to pain than older kids/adults.  It's inflicting pain sheerly for the sake of the parents' vanity.

And I don't say that because I'm anti-piercing.  I personally don't like them, other than ears.  But if my almost 14-yo wanted to get something done, I'd probably let him.  I think he's old enough and mature enough to make the decision for himself. 

I just don't understand the reasoning for piercing a child's tongue.  Why?  It makes no sense to me.  You know that kid had trouble talking and getting used to the "hardware" in the mouth.  Really, why?

I'm not against piercings or tatoos at all....just don't think piercing a child's tongue is right.

My daughter's ex-husband had a tongue peircing when he was in his early 20's along with a nose and eye brow piercing.  And, he was unemployed; and looking for a job (in his own lame way).  The problem I had with that is the appearance of him trying to get a job in a small country town covered with metal...LOL.  On top of that, he had just gotten the tongue piercing, so his speech was impaired which made for less than desireable conversation with the people interviewing him. 

When I was young, my mother wouldn't allow me to get my ears pierced until I turned 18.  At 18, I did (which is kind of funny, because I moved out at 17...but waited).  At 45 I got a tatoo.  Mother got her ears pierced at 60...LOL 

I would not let my six-year-old get any sort of piercings... maybe ears, but definitely not tongue. Maybe at 16 or so, if I thought the kid was responsible. But definitely not at 6.

I'm surprised at all of the people saying their ears hurt - do you mean lobes, or cartiledge? I had my earlobes pierced for the first time in college, in a "farmacia" in Spain. (I was the first adult they'd done, since most everyone there pierces their babies' ears, so it turned into a great event with people crowding around and making sure the guy put the pre-piercing dots on evenly, lol!) And then, because of an unfortunate lost-earring-on-a-plane incident, I had one of them re-pierced in Paris (at a Claire's, lol). Each time it felt about like getting a vaccination, then it didn't bother me anymore. And usually I have a very low pain tolerance.

I wonder if some of you guys had bad piercing people?