Leg to stand on? Me?
My almost nine-year old was wondering when she might be allowed to get her ears pierced.

She was understandably miffed to learn that she has to wait until she's twelve. She can have her nose pierced when she's sixteen and if she wants any tattoos I'll take her to a reputable studio when she's eighteen and not a minute sooner. No child of mine is going to be wandering the streets looking like a refugee from a 1992 illegal rave. Not on my watch.

I have fifteen piercings, seven tattoos and pink dreadlocks. If I do the school run the other mothers look at me like I'm King Herod come for their first born.

Hypocrite? Nah - I'm a grown up. Makes it alright, innit?

Ahem.
(surlygirl spanked your monkey on, Fri 20 Feb 2009, 10:27, 7 replies)

It's about letting children stay children for as long as possible.
No hipocrisy there. Just good parenting.
( girlinthehole, Fri 20 Feb 2009, 10:43, closed)

*blushes prettily*
oh, you....
(surlygirl spanked your monkey on, Fri 20 Feb 2009, 10:52, closed)

Ohh
Sooooooooooo....piercings...........any... uh, interesting.......places.....?

*on tenterhooks*
(powervator and NONE SHALL PASS, Fri 20 Feb 2009, 11:11, closed)

not any more..
...throwing a Z650 down the road at 40mph takes all the fun out of nipple rings, I find.

You're welcome.
(surlygirl spanked your monkey on, Fri 20 Feb 2009, 11:24, closed)

ouch!
I bet that stung for a bit. More importantly, how was the bike?













/coat
( multijoy, Fri 20 Feb 2009, 12:16, closed)

Written off.
Boo.
(surlygirl spanked your monkey on, Fri 20 Feb 2009, 12:50, closed)

Children can have piercings
when they understand just what it means to pay a complete stranger to inflict injury upon them.
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 0:23, closed)