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Pierced Ears - An Opportunity to Let Go or to Scream Ouch!
Every girl and mother grapple over earrings. First there is the question of whether she should be “allowed” to get them, then at what age. I personally had mine pierced at the age of 6. I can’t quite remember if I was the one who brought up the need for earrings, but for whatever reason, at the age of 6, I had the infamous round birth stone stud shining from my ears.
So of course it’s natural that I felt fine about my daughter being around the same age. But I was not prepared for the call I got when my 3 yr old was at the mall with her father wanting hers done. My daughter is a great dichotomy when it comes to her personality. She’s can be as rough and brutal as the boys, but she also loves everything girly. So it comes to no great surprise that she really wants earrings like “adults”.
Seems I’m the more protective of her two parents. Normally you think that it’s the father that tries to cover his daughter and keep her from growing up to fast. But her father seems to be a little more liberated in that sense I suppose. Nevertheless he got quite a reaction and argument from me on this one. In the end he agreed, but I’m not sure how long my force of nature will stand up to theirs.
I’m at least trying to hold off until school age. I used the arguments of her brother ripping one out, infection, a big fat ball on the back of her ear, it’s not necessary, they need to really be taken care of, I want to be there when she gets them done and all of the other reasons that I can possibly find off of the top of my head before it explodes.
Then I pause to ask myself what this all means? I mean why am I getting so upset over two tiny holes?
I guess I must brace myself for the much bigger decisions that my children will make that I also made and still somehow turned out okay…I think 
I don’t know much about what age girls should be allowed to have their ears pierced - my son is only two and a half so I don’t think that’s an argument we’ll be having any time soon. But I do know a lot about body modification and I implore you, PLEASE don’t pierce your child’s ears in a ‘mall’ or in Claire’s Accessories or anywhere else than a reputable piercing shop and with nothing else than a proper piercing needle. Piercing ‘guns’ are horrible things. More information can be found here.