The Parents Yap About Piercings And Tattoos: How Old Is Old Enough?

This week, The Parents Yap about body mutilation and when it's OK for our kids to join the party.

Tattoos and piercings are everywhere, and we don't just mean pierced ears. Have your kids noticed? Do they ask to get inked or pierced? How old do your kids have to be? And... are you leading by example with your own piercings or tattoos? Melissa Schools For my ninth birthday party, the whole party piled into what I’m sure was only one car and went to LaVerdiere’s Drug Store, so I could get my ears pierced. I was a big fat baby about it, and ended up taking the earrings out and didn’t get my ears pierced again until I was sixteen. My mother’s hairdresser did it. (That was our idea of a full-service salon back in the day.) My mother’s best friends had pierced her ears with, as my mother says, “a hat pin and an ice cube.”  No doubt this is …

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