Quickie: When is it ok to pierce a child’s ears?

Dirty Mother Pukka with Anna Whitehouse

Heart

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

After getting their first tattoo together last week, Anna and Polly deep dive into a world of piercings and tattoos. The average age of girls getting ears pierced is 7 and there’s a current petition to get child piercings banned. What side of the fence do you sit on? And, more importantly, does having a tattoo at 41 mean you are on the verge of a midlife crisis? Original music from Matt J Brown at WeAreOK.com

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0:00.0	This is a Global Player Original podcast.
0:10.2	Welcome to Dirty Mother Packers Quicky.
0:18.8	This is our podcasting Bit on the Side.
0:21.7	You're my bit on the side,
0:26.9	Polly. Oh, that makes me feel so special. Thanks so much. I'm Anna White House founder of Motherpucker,
0:29.6	and I'm going to introduce you better, actually. Pauly Hazelwood.
0:36.8	Oh, cheers. Thanks. Hi, everybody. So I want to put this on the table. A lot of chat in our WhatsApp groups at the moment
0:38.1	about the age of consent for piercings and tattoos.
0:42.2	You know, whether it's in teens or whether it's in kids,
0:44.6	there's a smorgasbord of differing opinions, I think, on there.
0:49.7	Some people have their kids' ears pierced five months in.
0:53.1	Some people wait until their child's old enough
0:55.3	to say this is what I want. And it came onto my radar because, two reasons. One, my daughter,
1:01.9	her friends have started getting their ears pissed. She's nine. And she's asked me, when I got my
1:07.1	ears pierced, and if she can, she's sort of venturing into that like can i get mine done yeah i
1:12.4	had mine done when i was 13 oh so did i parents wouldn't let me have my ears pierced until i was a teenager
1:18.4	second part of this before we deep dive into sort of consent on piercings is polly and i got our first
1:26.5	tattoo in some cry for help in our midlife crisis.
1:31.0	Probably a little bit of a midlife crisis in there. But it was obviously based on the wonderful
1:35.2	Dr. Marta and her love button. And we just saw an opportunity, didn't we while we were away?
1:39.3	We saw a pretty dodgy tattoo parlour. I think it was well over the odds.
1:43.4	The ocean front tattoo parlour in LA.
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