Comments on: Fast Times at Preschool…Sigh

By: Anne

Anne — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:24:41 +0000

I was 11 I think…and yeah, our girls will have to wait a while…who wants to deal with infected ears? I like the magnet idea! COOL

By: Erin

Erin — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 10:06:32 +0000

that’s a cute idea, to use magnetic earrings. I got mine pierced before I started school but my stepdaughters waited I think, and the youngest has the hardest time caring for them. I just remember my mom rationalizing with me (and later with my little sister) that if you do it young, the kid won’t mess with the earrings as much and you can care for them better (we did it at age 3…) I don’t know what I would do if it was my own child- probably at least try magnets….

By: Java Junkie

Java Junkie — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 00:45:19 +0000

I was 5 or 6, I don’t remember. What I DO remember, though, is the horrid infection and the unbearable pain of my aunt, a practicing cosmetologist, digging out the infected, scabbed over lobes with a sewing needle she had held over the stove to “sterilize.”

I love the idea of magnetic earrings. You should get her a set number of pair and tell her that if she really wants her ears pierced than she’ll have to wear those every day and not lose them. Not to worry, though, I don’t think they’ll cause harm if the lil one swallows them if they’re stainless steel they’ll just pass right through her. Girls want their ears pierced because they want sparkly things, not because they want holes in their head. This will give her what she wants without the worry of infection.

By: Blonde Mom

Blonde Mom — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 00:43:45 +0000

Malia:

We actually found a home video uploaded on YouTube of a baby (probably 11 months old or so) getting her ears pierced at the mall with her mom and dad. I don’t know why in the world they uploaded it because the baby is crying HER HEAD OFF and frankly, it freaked Caitlin out a bit. So yeah now she thinks it hurts, but she still is fascinated with DA EAR BLING!

And I may get a pair of the cute magnetic earrings for her birthday in June for special occasions (I can see her losing them at daycare on the playground in about 2 minutes flat) but I am going to watch Amelia around them to make sure she doesn’t try to digest them. She’s still into trying to eat foreign objects.

By: malia

malia — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 23:39:02 +0000

Well…I was, you’re not going to believe this, FIVE years old when I first got my ears pierced!! Yep. I have no idea what my mother was thinking when she said yes! That was ::gulp:: 28 years ago! We had to go to the hospital to get it done! I never had trouble with them that I remember. But I’m also not touting that fact to my six-year, soon to be seven-year old either! In fact, when’s she’s asked about it I’ve said, “Oh sweetie, you don’t want to do that now, it REALLY hurts!” (I quit vying for “mother of the year” a long time ago!)

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