Earrings

[B00]

Is there only me who finds earrings on young children and especially babies revolting?

I went shopping today (I do go out occasionally!) and I lost count of the number of toddlers I saw with them in.

My baby is 16 months old and she better not want her ears piercing till she's at least 12!!!

[Robinia]

Oooh I agree BOO looks awful & it IS painful.
I also agree with Otrere about the risk of it being ripped out. I almost did that myself & had a very sore earlobe for a while.....there's absolutely no reason for doing it to a small child.

[jelly-baby]

I don't think salons should pierce a baby's ears at all. The child should be able to say yes or no - whether they are 6 or 16.

It is another of the things that very young mums do - as well as putting them in 'designer' clothes (mainly fakes from the market though).

[little coojy]

wait till there old enough to ask, so many accidents happen to lille babies wearing them, its not worth the risk.

[smudge]

Hi BOO - blinking weather, just got caught in a down pour!

Anyway, I am totally against babies, toddlers & very young children having their ears pierced just to suit their parents wishes.

They are beautiful enough, without adorning them with earings, especially hooped ones!

Why inflict unnecessary pain on them - let them decide for themselves when they are old enough to do so!

The sun's out again now!!!!

[Pippa68]

I agree ~ totally foul!! my daughters had their ears pierced when they requested it..one was 8 years old & the other was 15.

A baby doesn't ask for holes to be punched into their ears.

[noxlumos]

Trying to wind wee-angel up again jelly-baby?

What's your hang up with young mums then?Every post you make is slagging them off and it's beginning to look as though you have a complex.Are you 50 and barren or something, with your husband having absconded with a fertile 16 year old or do you just like appearing a bit obsessed? I'm not usually this judgemental but you really are sticking the knife in to young mothers on a post by post basis and it's uncomfortable to read to be honest.

It's no-one's business whether a kids ears are pierced but the child and it's parents in my humble opinion, so I don't let it worry me either way, there are more important things to care about like starving kids and atrocities in Iraq to be honest.

[smudge]

I hadn't noticed that post until you mentioned it nox.

Come to think of it, jelly-belly, I was a very young Mum (17.5), but wouldn't have dreampt of having either of our daughter's ears pierced. I didn't dress them in designer clothes either.

Fortunately, they have both into very nice young ladies & are both brilliant, sensible Mums too.

Please don't tar all young Mum's with the same brush, it isn't nice!

[smudge]

*turned into

[smudge]

So sorry, I mean jelly-baby!

[B00]

Hiya smudge, sorry I'm still laughing at your new name for jelly baby, heh!

Don't talk to me about the rain, tried twice to put washing outside to dry today, give up in the end and put the lot in the dryer.

Nox whilst I agree with you to an extent that there are more things to be worried/stressed/ annoyed etc about, you have to admit that if we thought that all the time we wouldn't have an AB site at all. Each time we went to vice a gripe or an opinion we'd think "but there's more things to worry about.........."

[smudge]

Hi BOO - I couldn't stop laughing myself either when I read what I'd written. Sorry again jelly-baby!

Weather! Sorry your washing got wet - thank goodness for tumble dryers! It was a beautiful warm sunny afternoon here & we were really enjoying walking around the shops & market without coats on for a change. Suddenly the heavens opened & we were too far away from the car - knowing there were two brollies in the boot! We did see two different rainbows on the way home, so all was well in the end.

nox- Whilst I agree with some of your comments about putting down young Mum's - I think that being concerned about babies & children having holes punched into their tiny little ears is warranted.

[smudge]

I'll blame any mistakes on the medication that I'm on at the moment! ;o}

[smurfchops]

It looks awful, so chav and cheap and yes gippo. Dont we want our children to look nice and possibly be children that little bit longer? Let them have their ears pierced at 16 when they know what they want. There is enough time in the rest of their lives to pierce wherever they want, wear make up, and wear what they want. Let them just be children for goodness sake. They weren't born with holes in their ears, obviously they shouldn't be there.

[gessoo]

I totally agree with you boo. I find it dreadful that little ones have holes punched in them without any regard to their feelings. I also think it looks dreadful, chavvy, cheap and nasty. Little children are all beautiful and don't need adornment of any sort.

[Bohne]

Yes, I think it's awful, too.

I had my ears pierced when I was four, never wear earrings now, though.

[dancealot13]

My goodness, Im the only person on this post that thinks its cute. I would like to add one thing though. Any mother that would keep earings in a baby when they are repeatedly getting infected needs a slap on the hand. Also I have never heard of such terrible things happening to someone after they have their ears peirced?? And getting your ears peirced for most people is not torture. I worked in a mall for quite sometime, and saw many young children (3-4) years old get their ears peirced and they hardly flinched. Of course not everyone is the same though. I would be interested in hearing the ages of some of the mothers that answered this post. Im 24, and would never have my infants ears peirced, but I would if they found interest at 2 or 3 years old. It's just a little prick. Really, no one out there thinks its cute!?

[gessoo]

Have seen too many accidents with them in primary schools for me to even consider them cute! dancealot.

[TEAK36]

I absolutely hate it when I see babies/small children who have their ears pierced, and is something I am strongly against.Leave it until the child is old enough to make their own mind up.This may sound a little extreme, but I think there should be a minimum legal age for ear piercing.What would people think if they saw a baby with a tattoo, or a belly or eyebrow piercing.I am sure most people would be completely outraged, but a piercing is a piercing, and I think it should be left upto the child to make his/her own decision.

[leandrews]

Good on you Le Chat!

More people in your profession should follow your example.

[Loosehead]

I sometimes dispair that these young chavs have been given the ability by nature to reproduce and chavalise the wonderful gift that is a child. What next tatoos? A child should not have any form of body adornment until they are old enough to ask for it without being prompted and pressurised. I think it looks totally disgusting.