Ear Piercing

I got my first at 4, 2nd lot done at 12, 3rd at 15 and 4th at 16

I had my daughters done for her 10th birthday. In a world where everything is so instant and little girls clothes mimic big girls clothes, I wanted her to have to wait for them. I thought 10 was a pretty significant age so thats what I told her when she started asking at about 4yrs old. I had to wait till I was 11 and I remember it being a real special occasion :-)

I don't have anything against getting little girls who can talk/ask for them, getting done, but I disagree with babies getting them done....unless for cultural reasons.

I got both my girls ears done when they were 5mths old. My were done at the same age (back in the day lol). They have never fiddled with them, never had them get infected or taken earrings out  etc. They were done really quick and all over and done with in 5mins, the girls werent grizzly, unsettled or anything afterwards and Mercedes didnt even shed a tear. Lesieli cried then stopped as soon as it was over because there was too much to look at in the chemist. They had both ears done at the same time. They had numbing spray before it was done.

It's funny... I posted in this on Wednesday, and Kiya came home from school with felt on her earlobes. She'd gotten one of her girlfriends to draw on earrings! When I asked her about it, she asked when she could get her ears done "for real, Mummy!"

When I told her that she couldn't get them done until she was 13, Kiya told me that her friend (the one who drew the earring blobs on) got them done when she was 3. I told Kiya a little about how new piercings need to be looked after, and what is involved, and explained that we'd decided that 13 was old enough for her to be able to look after it all herself. Kiya thought about that for a moment, then asked me if I thought her friend's mum had helped her friend to look after her ears when they were first pierced. I agreed that she had, and Kiya said "Okay, Mummy. I'll wait until I'm big enough to do it myself"

DH and I decided 14- I always remember that Michael Hill ad where the girl counts down the days to her 14th birthday and then she gets her ears pierced. I like the idea of it being something they look forward to- like the others have said, a mother/daughter rite of passage type thing. Seems like a good age as its about then that you stop running around playing at school so much so they're less likely to get ripped out.

Well, they are done.
We went off up to Hamilton, had a good day and she got them done with pink earings the same as her sister had hers done with. She cried for a couple of minutes and looked at me as if i was the most horrible mummy in the world, went to my sister for a cuddle them promtply back to me. Once she got her lollies she forgot about them. So far she is WONDERFUL sits and lets me clean them, is so proud of them and has not touched them.
Will post pics soon, the only ones we have are on mikes cell phone for now.

Went to the teddie shop, decided to go back on the way to getting ears done after lunch.. of course i get back there and the ONE bear that i had chosen to get, had been bought while i was having lunch. So, and this is so not me.. i bought none for myself at all. There were none that stuck out as being near as cool as that one. The girls chose one each though. Aww, am so angry i didn't buy the cute bear when i saw it the first time, i even got em to check out the back, but that had been the last one.

Awww I bet both Ajya and Zaara  look so cute with their earring

awww cute wee earrings

Wow both of your girls are beautiful.
Look at her hair, got to love the girls! The earrings look so cute

we changed paris's over to her green ones after a year, and have taken them out a few times to give them a really good clean, but otherwise not too much swapping and taking out. I think it's good to teach them not to muck around with em too much.