For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for April 18, 2016

How did Paula’s parents allow it? Did they cave when one of HER same-age friends got their ears pierced?

good old pierce pressure

They start them young in some families. I seem to recall once seeing some babies with pierced ears.

USA parents are awesome…they don’t hesitate to circumcise boys at bith but they are against piercing girls ears that’s a little itch compared to the circumcision carnage and nonsense abuse.

For heavens sake, my daughter was 4, she’s 50 now and it doesn’t matter now.And she never had a problem with them!(she also has a teeny diamond in her nose)Much ado about nothing

I didn’t get mine done til I was going on 23

I was 56 when I got mine pierced. Figured I was old enough. OTOH one friend said her Phillipino aunts were pissed when her Latvian mother refused to get her ears pierce while she was still a toddler.

For the Arapaho Indians, the children had their ears pierced. Enduring the pain was a sign they could better handle frustrations in puberty and their later years.

In India, 95% of baby girls get their ears pierced as infants just a few months old. And knowing India, you cannot believe that it would be done in any ultra-hygienic facility. But there has been no epidemic of related infections as a direct or indirect result of ear piercings.

At the same time, 80% of that country of 1.25 billion+ people does not circumcise, and again, there is no epidemic of disease spreading related to that either.

So let’s please not get our garments in a bunch over potential for infection and disease…

I see toddlers with pierced ears all the time.

well i am a christion and i believe that boys are supposed to circumsied at birth,…no hate mail please i am expressing my beliefs,you have yours and i have mine…

I’ve see babies younger than 1 with pierced ears!

How about this practical piercing, Elizabeth ?

Oh, this brings back memories. I think I was in 4th grade before my mother finally gave in on pierced ears. And yes, I did do the “all the other girls have them” argument.And to this day I will joke that it’s unfair babies, like my niece’s daughters, get pierced ears without having to nag their mothers for them.

I had my ears pierced when I was 8. The doctor next door did it, and did his 6 year old daughter the same time. He had to talk both mothers into it. I am forever grateful for it :)

If the girl still says “gots”, then she is not mature enough to have them.

If it ain’t hurtin’ – don’t mess with it!And how many in her class don’t have pierced ears?

Oh, just let her get a few clip-ons, they still had those back then.

At 78, I’ve never heard of any Jewish boy or man who ever had problems because he was circumsized when he was 8 days old (a tradition).

Her mother needs to give her a fair ear ring…

Or a clip on each ear . . . ?

Moi? She wouldn’t allow it, I waited until I was either in college or married. Looking back, it’s not such a big deal after all. Just a tiny place to put earrings. Geesh.