Are parents who get their kids ears pierced selfish?

PizzamanIRL

I mean when their kid is a few months old and the parents get their ears pierced just so they can have a 'prettier' baby with a shiny earring.

The kid has no say and has to go through a bit of pain just because their mother wanted them to have a better appearance.

LordSutch

Babies with earrings, NO no no Its just plane wrong.

Unless of course you are from South America or some other place where it is tradition.

billybudd

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

I mean when their kid is a few months old and the parents get their ears pierced just so they can have a 'prettier' baby with a shiny earring.

The kid has no say and has to go through a bit of pain just because their mother wanted them to have a better appearance.

Read before from a ear specialist that it is less painful when done very young and has no health effects and is less prone to infection.

Brain Stroking

Anyone that does that is classless in the extreme. Doesnt matter how much money you have. You have no class if you do that.

Mince Pie

Maybe they want people to stop thinking their girl is a boy?

Max Power

Brain Stroking wrote: »

Anyone that does that is classless in the extreme. Doesnt matter how much money you have. You have no class if you do that.

WTF? What has how much money they have got to do with anything?

To answer the OP, yes they are selfish then again all skangery type people are.

Halloran springs

billybudd wrote: »

Read before from a ear specialist that it is less painful when done very young and has no health effects and is less prone to infection.

Ooooo we have an argument, *grabs pop corn*

poppyvally

LordSutch wrote: »

Babies with earrings, NO no no Its just plane wrong.

Unless of course you are from South America or some other place where it is tradition.

Or if it's your "culture"
:rolleyes::

TheUsual

Selfish ?

Are you fcuking with me ?

Cost me about 25 Euro for each babies ear. How is that selfish you morons !

Lando Griffin

Mince Pie wrote: »

Maybe they want people to stop thinking their girl is a boy?

It was only a few weeks ago in the playground when I saw a boy no more than one with a gold stud in one of his ears. A right little so and so too
.

danslevent

Well most girls are going to pierce their ears anyway in the future, why not do it when they are young?

1ZRed

It's not selfish, it's just completely unnecessary and tacky to do it to a baby.

poppyvally

FionnMcCool87 wrote: »

WTF? What has how much money they have got to do with any

Op s just saying that anyone with any bit of cop-on wont do this to small kids

LordSutch

How about Christmas earrings for your baby? > http://us.123rf.com/400wm/400/400/svart/svart0912/svart091200016/6110899-little-baby-girl-with-christmas-decorations-as-earrings.jpg

1ZRed

poppyvally wrote: »

Or if it's your "culture"
:rolleyes::

If it was part of their culture then I'd respect that and wouldn't care. In fairness of all the things done for the sake of "culture", like unnecessary circumcision, ear piercing is way down the list.

rannerap

danslevent wrote: »

Well most girls are going to pierce their ears anyway in the future, why not do it when they are young?

Because your ears grow and change as you get older, while it may be the perfect placement for a hole when you are a baby, that may not be the case a few years down the line.

Mince Pie

Sarannewrap wrote: »

Because your ears grow and change as you get older, while it may be the perfect placement for a hole when you are a baby, that may not be the case a few years down the line.

I've never noticed a non perfect placement for earrings before. I'm gonna be walking around the city with a rubber neck now.

caste_in_exile

wouldn't go too far down that road, it's a fast track to piercing their hymens

some people just want to put out the cutest sexiest kid on the block, which is beyond trashy n I thought I was weird but sometimes what's generally taken for the most down to earth people is in fact away with the birds.

Esoteric_

Most girls might get it done when they're older, but surely the choice to essentially mutilate their body should be their own? I'm not against body mods, I have plenty of body mods and love them all, but punching holes into your child's skin for no reason? That's disgusting, IMO.

emeraldstar

I don't see how it would be "selfish".

Idiotic and unnecessary, on the other hand, yes.

rannerap

Mince Pie wrote: »

I've never noticed a non perfect placement for earrings before. I'm gonna be walking around the city with a rubber neck now.

I got mine done as a kid and one ear is definitely not in the ideal position

mauzo

It's tacky and horrible.

I've never seen a cute baby with their ears pierced.

Wait until they are old enough to decide themselves.

I wasn't allowed get mine done until I was 8. I have 4 in each ear and My tongue done now.

My choice, babies can't decide. My sister had hers done at 6 weeks and she hates it.

Mince Pie

Sarannewrap wrote: »

I got mine done as a kid and one ear is definitely not in the ideal position

Is it really that noticeable? Can't say I've ever seen it.

caste_in_exile

I got it done at about 13 in georges arcade and septicemia set in didn't go away for ages... served me right.

danslevent

mauzo wrote: »

It's tacky and horrible.

I've never seen a cute baby with their ears pierced.

Wait until they are old enough to decide themselves.

I wasn't allowed get mine done until I was 8. I have 4 in each ear and My tongue done now.

My choice, babies can't decide. My sister had hers done at 6 weeks and she hates it.

Would she not just take them out?

flutterflye

Don't know if it's selfish, but it is definitely knackery and tacky.

Mince Pie

Ah the Georges St Arcade fondly known as Butcher Street piercings. You weren't alone there my friend.

longshanks

So tell me this, at what age do you all suppose it becomes acceptable/unselfish/untacky ?

Super-Rush

TheUsual wrote: »

Selfish ?

Are you fcuking with me ?

Cost me about 25 Euro for each babies ear. How is that selfish you morons !

Tone down the aggression and abuse if you want to contribute any more to this thread

mauzo

danslevent wrote: »

Would she not just take them out?

She did, but she still has the holes

rannerap

Mince Pie wrote: »

Is it really that noticeable? Can't say I've ever seen it.

ah its just kind of annoying cause earrings dont sit right

caste_in_exile wrote: »

I got it done at about 13 in georges arcade and septicemia set in didn't go away for ages... served me right.

Ah georges arcade, I wonder if the lady with the shaky arm still works there! My ears still bear the scars from that place

flutterflye

caste_in_exile wrote: »

I got it done at about 13 in georges arcade and septicemia set in didn't go away for ages... served me right.

I got 2 piercings in the top of my ear done there. About 2 months later, I ended up in the doctor's surgery with the doctor trying to clamp the holes open and pull out the earrings with some pliar type device because my ear had swollen up so badly that you could nolonger see the piercings.
Was very sore

Brain Stroking

FionnMcCool87 wrote: »

WTF? What has how much money they have got to do with anything?

Because it is generally done by tinkers or skangers. Who arent rich (officially). Yet i saw a range rover open during the summer and a child lifted out with an earring and a mohawk haircut. The fact that i put my substantial outrage aside to focus on the mother's arse bending over to pick the child out of the back seat is irrelevant. The outrage existed for that brief fleeting moment.

I hope that answered your question

jeni

Its one of my biggest peeves, my four year old asked me a few weeks ago, i told her when shes 18, its nasty looking on kids full on chav, it would be jam jams while shopping for her new hooops next, no sorry

caste_in_exile

Clip-ons; if they must and in their own time.. for "special occasions" it's not the worst thing in the world but we shouldn't force a child to mature too early in the attraction dept.

OneArt

Sarannewrap wrote: »

ah its just kind of annoying cause earrings dont sit right




Ah georges arcade, I wonder if the lady with the shaky arm still works there! My ears still bear the scars from that place

I got my first piercing from her years ago.

"So, does this hurt much?"

"Ah no love, it' only six euro."

"No, I meant..."

Ow!

rannerap

OneArt wrote: »

I got my first piercing from her years ago.

"So, does this hurt much?"

"Ah no love, it' only six euro."

"No, I meant..."

Ow!

ah memories, and the queue for that place was always out the door!!!

Mince Pie

Luckily I had been warned by friends who did piercings so never got butchered by them, I'm amazed how many people went there.

caste_in_exile

Am I too strict on this if around 8, they want to do it as a girl then I may permit. Its that much more of a rebellion thing from a boy, granted he's not gay so no go there...

Think I may have done it about 12 cos I thought MJ looked "Bad" for a brief period so adolescence, maybe

flutterflye

I got mine done at 8 - I begged and pleaded until my mom gave in.
They didn't last long - I fainted whenever my mom cleaned them, so she made me take them out - at which time I fainted again and whacked my head off the dishwasher

I have a 9 year old boy - wouldn't cross his mind, but if he really wanted them, I guess I would let him.

Same goes for my daughter when she's about 8/9.

1ZRed

caste_in_exile wrote: »

Am I too strict on this if around 8, they want to do it as a girl then I may permit. Its that much more of a rebellion thing from a boy, granted he's not gay so no go there...

Think I may have done it about 12 cos I thought MJ looked "Bad" for a brief period so adolescence, maybe

There's no such thing as a gay ear anymore

caste_in_exile

I had the feeling there was something politically incorrect about that. the anxiety was tearing me up

caste_in_exile

besides Jimmy Somerville, didnt have the "obligatory" earring but you'd have to have a gay ear to feel his bronksi beat surely:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqOpUpdVNKM

The Cool

I got mine done at about 2 years old. I don't come from a knackery family or anything, apparently it was done to make me more obvious as a girl. Though that was 1991 and mum was going through her blue mohawk phase so feck knows what was going on tbh.

Both of my sisters got them done on their 7th birthdays. I think that was fair enough, it's not like they ever wore hoops or dangly earrings, just little studs.

A friend of mine didn't get them done til she was 20, which to me was strange seeing someone who'd always had virgin ears to that age because I can't remember non-pierced ears. Handy out for me not being able to remember it, I suppose. Have never gotten any other piercings since because I don't know how sore it'll be!

Reiketsu

I got my ears pierced when I was 4. My daughter is almost 6 now and not a chance will I get her ears pierced. She can get them done herself when she's old enough to decide though....and when she can get pierced with needles and not a gun.

MaxSteele

Anyone you see with their toddlers/kids dressed up like a 15 year old with piercings, 'V' haircuts, tacky tracksuits or gold jewellery are usually bottom of the pile skangers.

krudler

It ranks alongside having kids wearing gold chains as knackerish

southsiderosie

Every time there is a thread on this in AH, I'm fascinated. I didn't grow up in Ireland, and it was just the norm that babies got their ears pierced - the doctor actually did it, not someone in the mall with a gun. I'd never actually heard anyone voice outrage about it until I saw it on boards.

Sunnyisland

My granddaughter has her ears pierced,(she is 3) There lovely.Dont see anything wrong with them at all.

dark crystal

emeraldstar wrote: »

I don't see how it would be "selfish".

Idiotic and unnecessary, on the other hand, yes.

Well if you think about it, the piercing is not something the baby wants or needs, it's done by the parent/s who (somehow) find it aesthetically pleasing to them.

But yes, idiotic and unnecessary would be exactly how I'd describe it too. Punching a hole through a young child's ear for no reason other than to stick a piece of jewellery in is a pretty cruel thing to do imo.

Looks awful too.

HeyThereDeliah

southsiderosie wrote: »

Every time there is a thread on this in AH, I'm fascinated. I didn't grow up in Ireland, and it was just the norm that babies got their ears pierced - the doctor actually did it, not someone in the mall with a gun. I'd never actually heard anyone voice outrage about it until I saw it on boards.

People on boards are outraged about everything, AH posters especially like to get outraged on behave of those they think should be outraged.