Who should decide when you can get your ears pierced?

Short & Curly

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Kids & Family, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.6 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Some kids really want to get their ears pierced but their parents won’t let them. So, who should get to decide when and how you’re allowed to decorate your body with a piercing or even a tattoo? We get out the piercing gun and the tattoo ink and find out how much control we should have over our own bodies.

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0:00.0	This is an ABC podcast.
0:05.4	Hey there, I'm Carl and I'm Molly and we'd like you to meet our special guest for today.
0:10.3	He's one of our lovely short and curly listeners. He's from Vancouver in Canada.
0:15.0	Take it away Liam.
0:17.0	Hello, my name is Liam.
0:21.0	I'm in great three and I'm eight years old.
0:24.0	Liam wrote to us because he wants to get his ears pierced.
0:28.0	Just his ears? Not like his nose or his eyebrows as well?
0:31.0	No, Carl, just his ears. and he wrote to us because he was wondering
0:34.4	whether it would look fully sick radical awesome? Well, no, he was wondering
0:38.4	whether he should do it and whether there's a certain age you need to be
0:41.5	before getting your ears pierced.
0:43.2	Not just your ears could be any other part of your body as well, right?
0:46.2	Yes.
0:47.2	And finally, Liam was worried about whether it will hurt.
0:50.2	He had a few questions about what it would be like, so he got in touch with us.
0:55.0	I was like listening to your show like every night, and then I decided that I would ask a question if you could make an episode about getting your ears pierced.
1:09.0	Well Liam, firstly, I'm very pleased you listen to the show every night, but I'm not sure about the long-term effects of going to sleep listening to Carl's...
1:18.0	How do I describe your voice?
1:21.0	Delightful is the word you're looking for?
1:22.0	No, that's not it.
1:23.0	Lovely soothing.
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