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5 year olds and pierced ears?
So, Maren has become enamored with earrings. Actually, just jewelry in general. She has necklaces, bracelets, etc that she wears everyday, and every night they are meticulously put away in 3 separate jewelry boxes on her nightstand. I have no idea how she became such a girly girl, but she did!
She doesn't have pierced ears, so she's relegated to wearing stick on earrings to get her by. (She doesn't like clip-ons because they pinch her too much, plus cute and simple clip-ons are hard to find.) Our original plan was to let her get her ears pierced when she turned 7. But I didn't bank on her becoming so interested in it already. Plus the stick on earrings are icky and I hate seeing her wear them everyday.
I've been toying with the idea of letting her get her ears pierced for her 5th birthday in October. She would be over the moon (once she recovered from the pain). The proud mom in me would like to think she'd take care of them properly (with some assistance, of course), but with a 5 year old it's hard to say for sure.
Does anyone have a 5-ish year old with pierced ears? How do they do with it? I haven't mentioned to her I'm considering this, so I could still go either way. She still thinks she has to wait until she's 7 for pierced ears, and is sure to tell that to everyone who dares to ask her age.
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Re: 5 year olds and pierced ears?
she's 5? REALLY? how did that happen?
I think she's old enough to get her ears pierced...as long as she's asking for it and you make a REALLY big deal about it and how important it is to keep them clean and let you help. How exciting!
I got mine pierced for my 5th birthday. I have to say that 30 years later I still remember it pretty well! It was something I had begged for. They marked the spots on my ears and then two ladies did both sides at the same time. I don't remember it hurting just being scared by the sound.
But then I got to wear earrings... and I was SO happy. Except that I had to wear the plain ones from the piercing for a while (weeks?) And my grandparents had given me earrings that I was dying to wear.
I never had any trouble with them. I plan to get DD's done as soon as she is interested.
All kids are different with their level of maturity. And as long as you believe she would "leave it alone" as in not touch it for a few weeks and if you clean it once a twice a day for a couple of weeks, everything should work out.
Just a warning from what I have witness: 2 of my cousins got it done (sisters age 5 and 6) and it was a nightmare only because they kept on touching it afterwards and one got a small infection. The other one, for some reason, (I guess she/her mom didn't "rotate" while cleaning), so the earring was literally stuck in her ear and she can't take it out (but it doesn't hurt or bother her).
I'm hispanic and our custom is to pierce baby girls ears around 3 mo. So to me a 5 yo should have no problems with pierced ears. My only suggestion is if she is wearing "good" earrings make sure they are screw backs so that she doesn't loose them.
Unfortunatley we did not get around to doing dd at 3 mo (it was christmas time and crazy time) so now I'll have to wait until she is old enough to understand that she can't touch them while she heals. At 9 mo there is no way she'll understand that!
Good Luck
Del