re: What age to let daughters get her ears pierced?

Please don't bring up circumcision. That's an entire different 100+ page topic by itself.

Penis cosmetics

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If you make a kid play t ball at 3 or 4 is that the same thing? That kid may have no idea what they're signing up for, but that doesn't mean the dad is trying to live through the kid that still pisses himself. Seriously, why are you turning this into some sort of morality arguement or whatever? Maybe the mom just thinks it will make the baby cuter, IN HER OPINION.

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No man, have you worked with kids that have suffered years of dysfunctional parenting? I have. What I'm saying, and honestly man, slow down and use some comprehension skill. I see i'm wasting time, the only reason I'm bothering is because this DOES involve children and maybe a parent can take something away from this. If you've worked with kids it's pretty simple, you roll them a ball, if they roll it back... do it again. If you see a willingness to interact in their eyes, they are learning a motor skill and they enjoy it.

There are thousands of teen suicides directly stemmimg from overbearing parents belittling abilities and humiliating their kids in competitive sports. Two very different things and if you really want to learn, just start Googling. I'm not speaking about moral issues, simply what is a positive or negative input to a child's growth. Opinions are one thing, clinical studies that universally agree, with same data and results are another. Is a mom who wants to pierce a babies ears an indicator of future abusive pageant type syndrome? F#ck no...

But if a child is going to develop into an emotionally healthy, well balanced, well adapted, and productive individual who makes positive contributions to society, it IS a parent's job to MAKE CHOICES for the child and GUIDE a child responsibly... for the CHILD'S SAKE. The second a parent crosses the line and a child becomes the surrogate for the vicarious, it begins to diminish in functioning correctly. None of us are perfect and neither are our children. We all have shortcoming but if we really care, it's not hard to learn to correct ourselves before we inflict it on our kids. But now more than ever, there's a disconnect in society when it comes to knowing how or even desiring to learn to responsibly raise a well adjusted child.

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Chad504boy

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We get it. You and your trashy wife pierced your poor little girls ears at a young age.

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why is that a bad thing?

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Why do others opinions bother you? If you have no issue with it, why are you arguing?

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No man, have you worked with kids that have suffered years of dysfunctional parenting? I have. What I'm saying, and honestly man, slow down and use some comprehension skill. I see i'm wasting time, the only reason I'm bothering is because this DOES involve children and maybe a parent can take something away from this. If you've worked with kids it's pretty simple, you roll them a ball, if they roll it back... do it again. If you see a willingness to interact in their eyes, they are learning a motor skill and they enjoy it.

There are thousands of teen suicides directly stemmimg from overbearing parents belittling abilities and humiliating their kids in competitive sports. Two very different things and if you really want to learn, just start Googling. I'm not speaking about moral issues, simply what is a positive or negative input to a child's growth. Opinions are one thing, clinical studies that universally agree, with same data and results are another. Is a mom who wants to pierce a babies ears an indicator of future abusive pageant type syndrome? F#ck no...

But if a child is going to develop into an emotionally healthy, well balanced, well adapted, and productive individual who makes positive contributions to society, it IS a parent's job to MAKE CHOICES for the child and GUIDE a child responsibly... for the CHILD'S SAKE. The second a parent crosses the line and a child becomes the surrogate for the vicarious, it begins to diminish in functioning correctly. None of us are perfect and neither are our children. We all have shortcoming but if we really care, it's not hard to learn to correct ourselves before we inflict it on our kids. But now more than ever, there's a disconnect in society when it comes to knowing how or even desiring to learn to responsibly raise a well adjusted child.

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Were talking about a little girl getting her ears pierced. You "working with" (whatever that means) troubled kids has nothing to do with this. Your sample is not representative of the entire population, but that is either here nor there as it pertains to this.

I can say with a high level of confidence that a little girl isn't going to eat the barrel of a shotgun because she got her ears pierced at one instead of 6.


ETA: I'm also glad to see you are a parenting expert who can derive a mother's motives by the thought that she wants to pierce her kids ears.

You do know all of this arguing is a 2 way street. Why does my opinion bother y’all? You got nurse quoting the pediatrics reject society, we got you mr escapee to Alaska as the objective opinion of parenting... please.

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Why does my opinion bother y’all?

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Looking at your posts in this thread.....I would say it is the other way around. No one else sounds as upset as you in this thread.

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All I did was present my opinion

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Me too man, high five. Honestly I just get a kick out of the topic. This was all just a rehash of the past. And for anyone who thinks they can assure when I did my little girl is probably off by a little bit at least