earrings at a young age ?

Question

Do you think I should relent and get my five' s year old daughter's ears pierced?

Yes, she keeps hagging me as her best friend at reception class at school has them and she wants to be the same kids eh!! oh and my eleven year old does as well.

Yes, she keeps hagging me as her best friend at reception class at school has them and she wants to be the same kids eh!! oh and my eleven year old does as well.

Answer 1

no, her face will continue to chnage shape as she grows up and by the time she is 18 they will be in the wrong place, you can always tell when someone has had thier ears pierced as a child becasue their earrings are in an odd place on their ear

Answer 2

It sounds like she really must want you to let her, since you said "relent". When I was six, I started begging my mom for pierced ears. She said that if I still wanted them pierced in a year, she would let me get them done. So for my seventh birthday, she asked if I still wanted them, and I said yes, so it was a birthday present to me.
Although at the time I was annoyed I had to wait for so long, I think it was an excellent idea. I know quite a few people whose parents pierced their ears when they were babies, and they are upset they didn't make the decision on their own.
Likewise, I also know people who weren't allowed to have it done until they were sixteen, which is not fair either. It isn't about the age, it's about making sure that your child is developmentally ready. Will she be able to handle the pain? Will she be willing to wash her hands thoroughly, turn the posts as often as the dr. said, and keep her ears clean?
If you feel she can handle it, and that she is not going to change her mind, then I would say let her do it in a few months or so, as a special occasion or gift.
*Also, most pediatricians will pierce ears, which is safer and more sanitary than having someone at the mall do it. Pediatricians are used to kids wiggling and must have a steady hand to have gone through medical school.
Good luck, and I hope this helps!

Answer 3

Why not, I had my daughter's done when she was three, even though I wasn't keen on it because I heard from several people, including the ones who pierced it, that the earlier they are done, the fewer complications they have and are very well healed by the time they are interested enough in them to change them. I took my daughter to Claire's Accessories as they pierce both ears at the same time, using two people and two guns, they are also expert at piercing small childrens ears and know exactly where to position the studs so that they grow with the ear and not lop sided. They also had some very tiny piercing studs there that were more appropriate for a young child. I told my daughter she could have it done, but could not use any other earrings until she was older. She is nine now, and has only just started changing them occasionally, she can do this herself, and as they have been pierced for so long, they are really well healed.

Answer 4

You're certainly going to run into a variety of answers to that question. And it really is a personal decision. Some parents have their daughter's ears pierced as infants and others wait until adolescence. At 5 yrs old, the decision is yours and depends on different factors. Is she simply trying to jump on the bandwagon because other's have the same privilege? Or does she genuinely seem interested in different earrings and styles and colors? My personal thought is that IF they are old enough to can clean them, care for their newly pierced ears and not complain, then they are ready. Both my daughter's got earrings around age 10.

Answer 5

What for 20 quid. She's my daughter so i know what she's like. Just as well I'm in the UK and they are both in south of France until next week and then it's "daddy why have you only got 1 earring, What happened to to other 1. I've told her 1000 times that there has never been another 1. She to young to understand about the gay thing about having 1 earring in your right ear only (mines in the left) and my ex done it with a piercing stud (in about 1995) and nothing else and it didn't even bleed. I say no as she has had 4 pairs of clip on ones and she has lost some of them in hours of her mum buying them. NO Hotcakes

Answer 6

sure why not? i had my ear's pierced when i was 6. and my daughter got her's pierced when she was 2 years old. and when she got them pierced she kept saying that she looked more like a princess it was so cute! and now she's 10 and has over 13 pairs of them but only 2 are real gold. she wears earings everyday and now is asking to get a tatoo of a rose on her pinki but i think i'm gonna wait a while for that.

Answer 7

I did my daughters ears at 4 years old for her birthday (last year, she is now 5). It was a major pain in the butt!!

The one thing i highly recommend is find a place that does each ear simultaneously!! I cannot stress that enough. My daughter freaked out that much that it took me an hour and with the help of a friend to hold her down, to get the other one in. And we had numbing cream on too. I regret not doing it when she was a baby as it is just soo much easier then.

Make sure you are ready for any complications and take someone with you too just in case she freaks, as its not so much any pain, but the jolt they weren't expecting. Also take her to see someone else getting it done so she knows what its all about. At 5, they really don't understand what it all means. It just looks pretty to them!!

Good luck!!

Answer 8

That decision is up to you, and your daughter who should be old enough to have an opinion on the matter. I had my daughters' ears pierced when she was 2 weeks old and never regretted it. I guess that it's something that if she ever decides she doesn't like she can just not wear earrings, so it's not a major life decision or anything that will adversely affect her in the future. See what she thinks and go from there.

Answer 9

my girls got their ears pierced at the same time.. my oldest was a year and a half, and my baby was 6 months old. they are now 4 and 3 and still have them in. they dont mess with them or anything. they love when i help them change earrings, so no, 5 is not too young.

Answer 10

if you do make sure you take her to a good ear piercing place - my mum had mine done when I was 6 months old (I had very little say in the matter !) and paid £8 for it and that was ahem.......more than 30 years ago so it was a lot then ! but they are dead in the right place, even, and I have never had any problems with them, closing up, infected or anything thats all I would say is go somewhere good.

Answer 11

Ok why did that one poster say she is way too young? how stupid sorry.. You usualy get a girls ears pierced when born. Most hospitals do it. Secondly i didnt get my oldest ears pierced because my husband went in the army and wanted to be there when we did it. but i never got the chance. we finanly did it aug 4th after 2 1/2 years waiting. Now i am going to pierce my youngest whos 1 year and 3 months old. Again, i didnt do hers because we been in germany for a long time and i dont trust germans. Pierce her ears, she will love it and its girly