To cut a long story short, when she first asked (aged 6) I told my daughter she couldn't get her ears done til she was 12.
Well, she's now 8, and all her friends seem to have had theirs done in the last year or 2. I have heard her telling her freinds she would love earrings but has to wait til she is 12, so I thought 'what the hell, I don't want her feeling odd-one-out'.
This morning, we went to the jewellers, under the guise of going for a necklace, and after she had chose one, I told her she could have any pair of clip-ons within a certain price range, or get her ears pierced.
The only part that was actually a decision for her was deciding which earrings she wanted to get pierced with.
Although the logical part of my head says "It's only earrings, most girls her age have them, and it was her choice" - I found it really difficult to let them do it, and even though she insists they don't hurt ("I can't even feel them"), it really upsets me to see her with studs in. Why is that?
2007-12-23
23:50:12
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