Advice with Teenage Daughters & Piercings

[silver]

Young Lady (arms akimbo in my most motherly - stern voice), do you have something you'd like to tell me????? **tapping my foot***

"NO!!!" **slams door**

[Lise]

I'll chime in with the earlier comment about pregnancy.

I'm a midwife, in practice for 14 years. Over the past 8 years or so, I've seen lots of pregnant bellies with a scar like this: ( then the belly button, and another scar, like this: ) The scars are sometimes an inch apart. I'm not sure, cuz I don't ask, at what point the women had to take out the piercing. But it's clearly much bigger than when they started!

I'm in the "better a piercing than a tatoo" camp. My right ear has three holes in it, from back in the 80s (only one hole in the left ear). Now I wish I didn't have those two extra holes, but they're not all that noticeable. I definitely don't want art on my body that I can't change! But that's me...

Keep us posted!

[KnottedYet]

Lise - even a *bike* tattoo?

(I'm thinking about a chain-ring tat on my right calf. I get chain ring marks all the time anyway, might as well make it permanent!)

Ewwww, stretched out belly-button piercings! Not something I ever really thought about. (now, saggy nipple piercings I've considered. Perhaps there is a lower age limit to navel piercings, and an upper age limit to nipple piercings... not that I've ever thought of getting either, oh no, not me, uh-nuh. )

[Lise]

Lise - even a *bike* tattoo?

Yeah, babe, even a bike tatoo! I am too changeable!

Plus which, I routinely give myself my own chain ring tatoos! Also tire print tatoos--I rode the Bianchi yesterday , and had a total blank spot in which I unclipped right and leaned left. I managed to unclip left in a hurry, but somehow got grease and tire prints all over both calves! (Sorry for the brief thread hijack, SilverFamily)

[Dianyla]

Not something I ever really thought about. (now, saggy nipple piercings I've considered.

But then you've got some handy hardware to attach a support to... just run a line from boob to boob around the back of your neck like a halter top.


I swear I'm not stalking your posts tonight.

[Lise]

I've also seen some pretty funky looking stretched-out navel tatoos. I see fewer of those these days, and a lot more stretched out piercing scars. Hmmm, what will be the next fascinating fashion trend that gets all distorted when you get preggers?!?

[Tuckervill]

My son's long-time girlfriend had plugs in her ear lobes, stretching them out. Not very big. When she brought it up in convo one day, it occurred to me to say that those holes would be handy for turning her over in bed when she's in the nursing home.

She wears normal earrings, now. I can't claim that the image is what made her change, but I'm so glad she did.

Karen

[hellbells123]

hi there..a few years ago i had a few piercings ie ears ,nose ,naval and tongue ..then i kinda grew up a little and now i dont have any..nor do i have any visible scarring ..i honestly think this is phase that will pass and possibly the best way to deal with it is go with her and make sure it all goes safely .

accepting it may just help the phase pass quicker
helen

[Zen]

But then you've got some handy hardware to attach a support to... just run a line from boob to boob around the back of your neck like a halter top.

[mtbdarby]

"NO!!!" **slams door**

**trying not to grin** The next time you slam a door on me young lady, I will remove the hinges AND the door (I can't wait to use this on my son - and I will take the door off...)

Or my new strategy, if you tell us what you were doing there, Knot will share one of her secrets Bwaaaa

[Mr. Bloom]

I will remove the hinges AND the door (I can't wait to use this on my son - and I will take the door off...)

One time I did this to SilverDaughter...she was grounded to her room, no phone, no Computer, NO DOOR. Taking the door off the hinges was the best punishment I could do!

I'm taking SilverDaughter for her new piercing tonight

[rachelroo]

well here is my story. My parents wouldn't let me get my ears peirced till I was 18 so one summer in the Bahamas I got my cartilage pierced at age 15 (you don't need consent there) I got my Belly peirced at 18 and I got a tattoo. I regreted the tat soon after getting it, and took the peircing out a year later. Now 5 years later the belly piercing still hasn't scarred or closed up. I can still put things through it, allthough I've only tried once recently. I know this all doesn't have a point but for some reason I just had to post.

[Chile Pepper]

**trying not to grin** The next time you slam a door on me young lady, I will remove the hinges AND the door (I can't wait to use this on my son - and I will take the door off...)

Oh yeah--I am so going to remember this one. My eight-year-old son already has a teenager's attitude. Any chance it will wear off instead of getting worse?

[Mr. Bloom]

Oh yeah--I am so going to remember this one. My eight-year-old son already has a teenager's attitude. Any chance it will wear off instead of getting worse?

I can't lie...probably not...but a door off the hinges could help.

[Tuckervill]

I can't lie...probably not...but a door off the hinges could help.

I prefer copious hugs, even if they stand stiff in your arms, and frequent trips together for ice cream during which you shut your mouth and listen for as long as it takes.

Karen