AARDVK wrote:
-BO- wrote:
And since I was thinking about this earlier, let me ask Brooke and some of the other parents out there. I know Brooke has a daughter that was 16 not too long ago. As a parent, do you allow your child to have a prominent nose and lip piercing as this child does?
No--as a matter of fact, when Blair was in middle school, a lot of the girls including her closest friends were getting their ears pierced, and of course Blair wanted to join them. But she needed parental permission, and although she argued very eloquently, I said no--that was a decision she needed to make for herself when she became an adult, not as a preteen being subjected to peer pressure. She's now 24 and has no visible piercings, not even ears, so she did change her mind about wanting them.
Brooke/AARDVK
Our daughter Morgan (QAZ BWW Farmville) is now 21. The rule was that, within school dress code, anything not permanent was OK. She grew her hair long and donated to Locks for Love after graduation.
She requested, and we approved, double ear-piercing. That was the norm for girls in her school, and it isn't/wasn't unusual for professional women, so we didn't see double ear piercing as a choice likely to adversely affect her life. Neither she nor we have regretted it. She has had no other piercings or tattoos.
Our son, hilariously, has struck some kind of deal with the Dean, and his hair is almost a foot long...a lustrous, shiny, perfectly clean foot-long mane. He has no tattoos or piercings.