I was at church yesterday and I saw a few little boys (both under the age of 8) with a peirced ear! WTH?

One little boy had a big ass cubic zirconia in his ear. His grandmother thinks it's okay!

When did this become cute or acceptable?

It's all about the BLING!

I tremble for our future.

when i have a kid, i'm gonna get "kneel, bitches" tattooed on his neck before he enters kindergarten.

Hey these days it's cool to send your three year old daughter to have a "beauty treatment". She can walk around in clothes as if she is some kind of super slut, she can have her earrings, her pearcings, her hair, her finger nails and her eyes and lips all done the way mommy likes to seduce her men. Cuz "that's soooo cuuuuute" hiiiihhiihihhiihiiii

Give these boys some fun too!

The only time I get to icked out about kids doing 'adult' things is if they have sexual connotations, etc. etc.

Little girls dressing up like sluts irritates and disturbs me. At this time, I don't see any correlation between earings and sexuality, whether as an indication of sexual prefernce/orientation, or sign of sexual maturity. Little girls wearing earings never disturbed me, and little boys wearing earings is a curious site, but doesn't disturbe me either. Now if the girls were wearing makeup or slutty dresses , or the boys wearing jeans to assentuate their asses or something, that would gross me out.

I, myself really don't care to see little boys with earrings. It's a HUGE pet peeve of mine. But everyone does different things, so whatever.

What's the problem? If little girls can wear earrings, why not boys? Why is there a double standard?

sextonseven said:

I don't think anyone should put holes in a child's ears, girl or boy. But once they're old enough to choose and take of them themselves, then all's fair for everyone.

sextonseven said:

I don't like it either when really little girls get their ears pierced. I got it done when I was about 10 I think and I didn't even want to get it done at that age. So which 2 year old child would want to have it done? IMO parents should wait until the child decides to have it, no matter if the child is male or female.

Anxiety said:

CarrieMpls said:

Serious said:

I agree with both of you. My niece got her ears pierced when she was just a few months old. I cringed when I found out my brother and his wife did that.

CarrieMpls said:

I feel the same way. I have seen infant boys with their ears pierced (like little girls). It annoys me that the child didn't make that choice.

I'm going to be totally honest and say that if I had a little boy I would totally pierce his ears and put some tastefull REAL diamonds in.

But I do see everyone's point about letting the child decide. Mine can decided to take them off if he wants to.

sextonseven said:

I agree. My nephew was almost 1 when my sister got his ear pierced

I didn't get my ear pierced until I was around 23 or 24. I remember being scared as hell at the time that it was going to be extemely painful (surprisingly, it wasn't). During that time, I was thinking to myself that the piercing of ears should be done at birth on all children, like circumcision. That way, the child would not remember the pain and, if he didn't want an earring, he could take it out later and let the hole grow back.

Actually though, an earring ain't no big deal. I don't see what's the problem.

They can always take the earring out if they don't like it. If they get older and decide they want one, they may be scared to get one because it might hurt.

Piercings on young children is yuck.

You should have seen the look on the woman's face that pierced my ear. She put that little gun up to my left ear and I immediately said...."Oh no honey, you are about to pierce the wrong ear. I want only my right ear pierced".

I pierced my ears I guess when I was 18 or something. My mom was like "What?" I ended up taking her to get her ears pierced at age 50 something for her birthday. She was always afraid to have them done.

I don't like little boys with earrings (and long hair), girls are okay though.
It's not cute to me.

It's sexist perhaps, but I don't like seeing little boys with pierced ears. Somehow I don't mind little girls, though I personally agree they should be old enough to ask.
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giving a little boy an earring is like giving him a mullet. it's just not fair to the child.

Anxiety said:

i saw a little boy with a mohawk mullet the other day. i've seen a few of these lately.

is this a trend? or is this just indicative of just how white trash my hometown is getting (or still is).

sextonseven said:

my niece too my sister in law cried and regretted it almost immediately.
I'm glad I was able to make the choice myself when I was ready to do it as an adult.

Anxiety said:

I gave my kid a mullet once it made him look up to no good, I swear I treated him differently!

CarrieMpls said:

i agree. i think that piercings should wait until the child is older.

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

Trouble with that Miguel is, they will prolly get ripped out his ears by other kids.. so NOT a good idea IMO

CarrieMpls said:

I got mine pierced when I was still a baby. My aunt took me to get mine done.I think most of the girls in my family did too. Weird that my mom doesn't have pierced ears. Sparked my love for piercings, I guess. If I have kids, I'd wait until they're old enough to do anything to their body too.

Maybe its because of where I was raised but I don't see the big deal. I had my ears pierced since I was 2 months old but none of my sons have pierced ears-I'm not too keen on boys having this done anyway. If I had a daughter of my own her ears would be pierced too.