So my neighbor got her toddler's lip pierced.

[gardenista]

I cannot believe this. Her freakazoid cousin peirced her baby's lip with a little ring. It's "adjustable" so that when the kid's face gets bigger, the hoop can expand. Then when she's about six, they'll put a bigger one on, and so on...

Why do people try to impose their personality disorders on their own kids?

It's worse than a bowl cut!

[RiffRandell]

1. I think a bowl cut is worse.

My kids can't have any piercings until they can take care of them themselves.

[GreenPartyVoter]

54. Excuse me, but my littlest one had a bowl cut and it was just darling on him.

Just too cute! :D

[Blandocyte]

2. Sounds like child abuse

unless it's rooted in the culture. So long as there's no infection, we might consider it to be ok.

[southpaw]

71. Female Circumcision is rooted in the culture

of the people that practice it.



...just sayin.

[derby378]

90. Circumcision, hell - I call it genital mutilation

Guys can usually get through life just fine with circumcision. What they do to little girls, on the other hand, is truly barbaric.

God bless the docs who volunteer their time and services to undo the damage caused by genital mutilation.

[southpaw]

93. Mutiliation is exactly what it is

Perhaps I should have used that terminology, as it would have helped to make my point re: the comment about 'sounds like child abuse unless it's rooted in the culture.'



I'm fine with respecting the cultural traditions of others, but only up to a point. When those cultural traditions amount to child abuse, torture et.al. I suddenly become very intolerant.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

3. Sounds like a bouncy story to me!

On the very off chance, that this is true, call CPS on them.

[gardenista]

49. .

You are a fine judge of an April Fool's Post! The bowl cut was the giveaway, and indeed, CPS would be on the doorstep!

[AngryAmish]

82. Why would CPS be on the doorstep?

I see girls everyday younger than one with pierced ears. Are lip rings worse?

[Shell Beau]

87. I think they may require a little more upkeep.

And with toddlers being really messy eaters and always pulling on things, it may not be such a wise decision.

[mainegreen]

4. I make my kid wear Red Sox hats.

Not really the same though.

[RiffRandell]

16. Nothing wrong with that.

We're big Sox, Celts, Bruins and Pats fans. My kids have a nice selection of sports attire.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

26. Poor things

[mainegreen]

32. Pffft. I bet you'll make yours wear Mets hats.

[Midlodemocrat]

34. Your point, Hitler?

Yeah, I didn't think you had one.

[mainegreen]

37. I'm just saying, at least I'm indoctrinating my kid in the cool cult.

You know, the one with talent, cool merchandise AND David Ortiz.

Just say it with me.

David Ortiz.


Ahhhhh.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

76. If I was going to have kids, which I'm not, they would be Yankees fans

[flvegan]

38. If I had a kid, he/she would have a Papelbon jersey.

[mainegreen]

41. That's cause you've got class.

[flvegan]

42. He/she would have a couple away team jerseys, just in case we travelled somewhere.

[mainegreen]

44. The only ones on my ban list: NY, Mets and Colorado Rockies.

[Midlodemocrat]

5. I predict this thread will go amazingly well.

:thumbsup:

ANd, by amazingly, I mean train wreck worthy.

[mainegreen]

7. It'd be better if the kid got tats too, or even ear plugs!

[no name no slogan]

20. I'm thinking those lip discs

Now that would be kickass

[mainegreen]

24. Or what about those neck extending rings?

The ones they use in Africa!

Now that would be primo!

[Midlodemocrat]

27. I just finished bifurcating BabyM's tongue so that she looks like a snake.

I rock as a mom, dude. Series.

[gardenista]

52. Add twin barbell posts to those tongues, and then, you are getting somewhere!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. Would you care for some popcorn, my dear Midlo?

:popcorn:

[Midlodemocrat]

12. I'm eating cheez doodles in honor of this OP.

[gardenista]

53. Here, have a veggy booty!

[NoSheep]

14. you're wonderful!

:rofl:

[DeepBlueC]

21. who needs TV?

:shrug:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

23. This is going to be as good as the "I want to ask GLBT DUers a question" from yesterday

In other words, it's going to be fucking awesome!

[Midlodemocrat]

30. Hang on!!!! I have to put on a cardigan.

You jerk. On so many levels.

[gardenista]

55. .

Damn, I should have kept my mouth shut!

[flvegan]

6. I wish this was in GD.

That would make my evening.

[Midlodemocrat]

10. Dear God, you're greedy.

An anti-breastfeeding thread and an anti- meat eating thread aren't enough for you?

[arcadian]

46. I got a pitbull mauling a dachshund thread into GD today.

It had a pic with the dachshund wearing the satellite dish protector and everything.

[gardenista]

60. Thought about it...

Then thought better of it. I don't want anyone doing a house-to house search of my neighborhood tonight.

Might reveal the true goings on around here, which we would *not* want to happen, if you know what I mean.

[Liberal_in_LA]

9. April Fools! right?

[gardenista]

48. Ding Ding Ding Ding!!!!!!

Wooohooooo!!!!!!

[NoSheep]

11. Why do people have kids at all? That's just as strange to me. It starts there.

[Midlodemocrat]

13. Series. WTF?

[NoSheep]

17. Morans.

[jmm]

15. Many toddlers can barely keep their clothes on

even if one did have an "adjustable" lip hoop it wouldn't last for long.

[Midlodemocrat]

19. Hello? Please do not inject reality into an amazingly

fun OP, okay? Thanks. Kool Aider.

[jmm]

40. If it was amazingly fun the toddler would still be breast fed.

The mom could've given her little indigo child a pit bull for being so well behaved while getting pierced.

I do have to give points for originality because it's been awhile since I've seen a piercing thread.

[gardenista]

58. thank you!

I wanted to figure out how to put a pit bull into the story, but I knew it would give it away.

[flvegan]

33. So now you're calling toddlers sluts?

[Midlodemocrat]

35. DUDE!!! I just choked up my cheez doodles.

:rofl:

[jmm]

45. Have you seen the new Dora?

Don't tell me that peep show silhouette pic isn't influencing kids.

[Jamastiene]

85. Hell, I'm an adult and can barely keep my clothes on.

I can't find my one and only earring either. You have a point there. :shrug:

[bigwillq]

18. What kind of mother is she?

I mean, are her maternal skills good or not? Is the child being well-taken care of? Is there love and stability?, etc, etc, etc? :shrug:

[Midlodemocrat]

22. oooh, pick me, pick me!!!!!

What is an imaginary one for $200 Alex.

[bigwillq]

25. Ah, that many not be the case.

I don't agree with the decision to pierce the lip (or any other body part on a child of that age), but it just could be ONE foolish decision. But I'll wait until I hear from the OP before passing judgment.

edit: Gosh, I am dense today. So you think the OP is making this up? :shrug:

[Midlodemocrat]

29. I do. I can't imagine anyone

allowing the piercing of a toddler's lip. They're well, for lack of a better term, less than hygienic at that age. It's part of being a baby.

[bigwillq]

31. Well, the OP has not responded yet

to any reply in this thread.

[gardenista]

51. Sorry, just took the dog out for a run and kabloooey!

[bigwillq]

69. Still didn't answer my question

:shrug:

[gardenista]

83. .

She is the kind of mother who, we all hope, exists but once a year.

:P

[bigwillq]

84. Gotcha.

Didn't seem like that type of thread, but guess I was suckered.

[Jamastiene]

86. zOMG, ir was an April Fool's Day joke.

Too me a second too.
:spray:

[Critters2]

28. !

:rofl:

[knowbody0]

36. my daughter is crying about chipping her friggin

tooth with her tongue piercing. she got it without parental approval while on vacation with relatives in Oregon. I told her to ask them to fix her tooth.

[Roon]

What do you all think of people who pierce their baby's ears?

eom

[Midlodemocrat]

43. Depends. Are those babies sluts?

[beac]

47. No, they just lose a lot of clip-on earrings when they take them off to talk on the phone.

[gardenista]

50. Only if they little tiny tramp stamps.

[Roon]

39. DUpe

[JanMichael]

56. The lip??? Fuckin' idiot.

I would personally like to smack some sense into that parent however I doubt the impact would help....


PS~ On the off chance this is a idiot April 1 joke then I guess I'm the dipshit. If not then the reality parent is.

[Withywindle]

57. Ear-piercing of female infants is pretty standard in my mom's culture.

To the point where my grandfather was offended when she didn't have it done on me. I had it done when I was 10, but at that point I was too big to wear the eeeeeensy pure-gold-and-diamond infant studs he'd sent us, that are still sitting in a bank vault somewhere 40 years later.

Wasn't the end of the world that it wasn't done on me as a baby. Wouldn't have been the end of the world if it had been either. :shrug:


Extra flamebait point: it's a hell of a lot less disfiguring than circumcision, IMO. :popcorn:

[Ilsa]

59. I feel so sorry for those babies. They scream bloody murder

when their ears are pierced.

[Withywindle]

62. Maybe, but

when I had mine done at 10 I barely felt it. (The first time was done at a Claire's store in the mall, with a gun. The second layer of double-piercing, when I was 12, was done by a 12-year-old with a needle stuck in a lighter flame for a second.) I didn't scream either time. I was more like, wow, that's IT?

[Ilsa]

74. True, but pain is so subjective. My ear piercings hurt, and I did my

second set at age 46, 30 years after the first set. Both hurt.

[Shell Beau]

80. And what if they end up not wanting pierced ears?

BElla can get hers pierced when she is old enough to know she wants earrings and old enough to be responsible for caring for the piercings! That is just me though.

[Jamastiene]

88. If you don't wear an earring long enough,

the holes close up. I know. I had my ears pierced at 10 years old. The right ear had already grown back closed by the time I was 15, because I only ever wore an earring in my left ear. :shrug:

For the record, I'd wait until the kid wanted something like that too, honestly.

[Shell Beau]

89. I had three holes in each ear. One set of holes grew back.

A lot of times they do grow back if you don't put earrings in for a while.

[elleng]

61. My little sweetie (now 20!) had a NATURAL bowl cut!

How I miss it!

As to piercings, you've stirred the hornets nest for me! Her father took her and her older sister to have their ears pierced. They were not toddlers, I fergit how old exactly, but I'd said for YEARS that I disliked earrings on little ones so their (f******) father took both of them one day and had their ears pierced. Now that I think of it, its clear that its one of his MANY sins that still weighs on me. Sorry for the rant.

[gardenista]

63. Don't get me wrong, I actually really like bowl cuts, and sported my own

My mamma would have reacted exactly as you did if my dad had gotten any of us pierced anywhere before the age of 30.

Glad you're rid of him, and hope the girls are at peace with their piercings.

[elleng]

65. Thanks! The girls wanted their piercings at the time.

I was in the minority, the IGNORED minority. And then there were infections. WHO watched over those??? And how many lost earrings????

As to bowls, I was really joking as that cut is SO cute on SO many little ones! My Julie had/has straight hair, but now its longer and not appreciated for the way it framed her beautiful face! Her older sister's hair was/is beautiful curly, and she's cut it short and IRONED it straight! What they do with age is just a shame (for our memories!)

[Dogmudgeon]

64. Wail 'till the first time the kid gets a bare-ass belt whipping

(That's usually a rite-of-passage for a six year old, too.)

Won't she be surprised!

At least she'll have a Damned Good Reason to start smoking when she's 10 or 11. (The beer and the fucking can wait a year or two.)

It's never too early to show the little ones that the world is a painful and destructive place filled with people who are crazier than shithouse rats.

--d!
(Yes, this was a sarcastic post.)

[Manifestor_of_Light]

66. If bowl cuts are bad, then I was DEFINITELY abused!!

When I was little my mom gave me these stinky ammonia permanents. Wanted to make me look like Shirley Temple, dammit!

:wtf: :grr: :wtf: :banghead: :wtf:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

67. people routinely pierce the ears of their kids.

if its acceptable to her family, this is really not your business and may not be a judgment of what kind of mother she is.

she doesnt have to raise the child with your idea of acceptable piercings

[LisaL]

70. And if she starts tattooing the kid?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

72. i dont know the answer to that. piercings can be removed. tattoos are harder to remove

however, we all raise our kids in our image. so its unfair to force your image on to my kid

[LisaL]

73. The OP is apparently a joke, but seriously-you think it's o'key

to force your own image on your own kid, including tattoos, piercings, and what else?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

75. if its not a health risk, and something that cannot be undone, its not my business. nt

[Marrah_G]

68. Personality disorder???????????

WTF?

Wait- This is an aprils fools joke right? Not mice messing with my nyquil filled brain this early in the morning.

[Jamastiene]

91. Nyquil makes mice mess with your brain?

:P

:hide:

I've been there. :hug: :hi:
:rofl:

[gardenista]

92. Now you need to take some dayquil to end the April Fool's nightmare

I thought I had enough hooks in the OP to tip people off or make them a bit suspicious, which you were, so you were victorious over your brain messing mice!

[Marrah_G]

95. hehe

I was so confused... I was reading it thinking...Gardenista????.....does not compute, does not compute!

[foxfeet]

77. And when the kid pierces Mom's brain with an icepick

everyone will wonder why.

[Arugula Latte]

78. Hey, it's their culture.

;)

[foxfeet]

81. Nah-- sounds like somebody else's culture that they appropriated.

:hi:

[Blue Diadem]

79. I would think it'd be more dangerous for a toddler. They tend to fall

and get into more things that might pull or rip the ring out.

I don't know, to each their own as they say. I just wouldn't do it with any of my own kids. Maybe it depends on the area. We very seldom even see any nose or eyebrow piercings here and those that we do see are usually University students from other areas.

[maxsolomon]

94. it's the toddler tongue piercings i object to.

cuz you know what they imply...