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Post by thyme4change on Jul 13, 2012 16:53:39 GMT -5
Dark - letting your daughter dye her hair will mean that uncle lester will molest her, and she will be a working mother, which means that your grandchildren will be serial killers. She will also want to marry a gay man, but gay marriage is illegal and immoral and ruining the country.
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Jul 13, 2012 16:58:50 GMT -5
There's the YM attitude I know and love, but we're talking about the older one that plays softball, so she's going to be a lesbian. That won't stop uncle Lester, but it should put the kibosh on the serial killer grandchildren. Unless they're like adopted Chinese girl serial killers.... *shrug*
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Post by thyme4change on Jul 13, 2012 17:02:20 GMT -5
Purple haired lesbian freaks are ruining this country.
You don't give her an allowance - do you?
And she better be walking to school - uphill - both ways - in the SNOW in July.
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Post by thyme4change on Jul 13, 2012 17:03:03 GMT -5
Can I go back to the french fry thread now?
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Post by susanb on Jul 13, 2012 19:46:32 GMT -5
This thread is boring. Where's all the people from the other one that were saying letting your kid look different is painting a giant target on their back, and you'll ruin their life forever? What the hell are you thinking?!? You are the PARENT! You need to say no, especially about colors! It needs to start somewhere! The only thing saving your daughter from the ranks of the freaks who will never be loved by anyone is the fact that she is dying her hair purple, which is a girls color. It is still bad because she will not be perfectly provincial, but if she were dying her hair BLUE, which is for boys then it would be the end of morality as we know it. Still, don't you want to protect your child? When all of the kids bully her, don't say I didn't warn you.
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Jul 13, 2012 19:56:23 GMT -5
Dark, you did it wrong. You are supposed to dye her hair purple, send her to school in a pink man's shirt, and when she comes home crying that she was made fun of at school THEN you post about it so you can be told it was all your fault. Worrying about turning 30 has really screwed you up! You're all ass backwards! Now you have to give your daughter a tattoo saying that where all can see it.
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Post by midjd on Jul 13, 2012 19:58:18 GMT -5
It has to be a tramp stamp in Old English font, though. No other tattoo will suffice.
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Jul 13, 2012 20:03:33 GMT -5
LMAO at a tramp stamp saying "My daddy is screwed up". If that won't cause a stir nothing will!
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Post by Malarky on Jul 13, 2012 20:03:56 GMT -5
We're just seeing DD's natural color-except for the highlights- for the first time in three or four years. Whatever, it's only hair and even if it doesn't grow back, you can always wear a wig.
Ears are pierced and I agreed that she can get second holes once cheer season is over.
As for the rest, I draw the line. No nose, septum, lip, eyebrow, hip, bellybutton etc. piercings. No tattoos. Period. No room for discussion.
The penalty for disobeying is no car paid for by Mom and Dad, no help with college tuition.
You may think I'm being unreasonable, but if she chooses to do those things, I want them to be adult decisions, not decisions made during the hormonal insanity of youth. If these things are still important to her as an adult, have at it.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2012 20:11:38 GMT -5
Hair comes and hair goes grows. I set the same boundaries, no tats, no piercings, nothing permanent till you are supporting yourselves. My motto was, if it's hair, I don't care.
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Post by MarleyKeezy78 on Jul 14, 2012 13:16:02 GMT -5
I used the purple manic panic in high school to piss my mom off. To bad she told me she liked it, and I was stuck with that crap all summer
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Post by weltschmerz on Jul 14, 2012 15:23:06 GMT -5
When my son was feeling particularly rebellious, he would tell me he's getting a tattoo. I used to tell him to knock himslf out. "Get a really big one, my dear." Knowing that he passes out at the thought of getting a flu shot, and had to have two nurses sitting on him to give him a tetanus shot in the ER, I figured I was safe.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2012 22:05:24 GMT -5
Dark - Are you even remotely qualified or prepared for this?
1] Technically speaking, hair is a little different than bits & bytes
2] This is your pre-teen daughter, right? Are you crazy?? ANYTHING goes wrong you are toast & that kid will make you suffer for weeks. If Loop told you that this was your one big chance to be cool, she sold you down the river!! You figure 'how bad can it go'? Hair grows back, its not permanent, you can shave it all off and that would be kind of cool Pre-Teen hair disaster is like 'life is over' & cool factor gone.
Be the best dad you can be - hire someone to do this for you!!!!
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Post by Firebird on Jul 16, 2012 10:46:04 GMT -5
She's also asked for a nose piercing, but we're nixing that one for now. Why?
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Post by Firebird on Jul 16, 2012 10:48:25 GMT -5
This thread is boring. Where's all the people from the other one that were saying letting your kid look different is painting a giant target on their back, and you'll ruin their life forever? What the hell are you thinking?!? You are the PARENT! You need to say no, especially about colors! It needs to start somewhere! The only thing saving your daughter from the ranks of the freaks who will never be loved by anyone is the fact that she is dying her hair purple, which is a girls color. It is still bad because she will not be perfectly provincial, but if she were dying her hair BLUE, which is for boys then it would be the end of morality as we know it. Still, don't you want to protect your child? When all of the kids bully her, don't say I didn't warn you. Firebird susanb
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Post by Firebird on Jul 16, 2012 10:49:36 GMT -5
This thread has given me a really good idea. When Babybird is thirteen or fourteen, we'll get a nice realistic fake tattoo somewhere and tell Daddy it's real
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Jul 16, 2012 12:37:31 GMT -5
Cause she's 11. I told her we can reopen the piercing discussion when she's a teenager.
Define irony; middle age soccer mom calling other people uncool...
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Jul 16, 2012 12:38:34 GMT -5
The 10 year old wants to dye hers lime green now.
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Post by Firebird on Jul 16, 2012 12:45:05 GMT -5
Cause she's 11. I told her we can reopen the piercing discussion when she's a teenager.
But why? Not trying to sound like a three year old, I truly don't get why hair dying is okay now but piercing isn't. Heck, piercing is even more temporary than dying. If you can't stand it, you take it out and it closes up in a day (nose piercings especially).
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2012 12:45:37 GMT -5
The scar is forever, though.
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Post by swamp on Jul 16, 2012 12:46:08 GMT -5
Cause she's 11. I told her we can reopen the piercing discussion when she's a teenager.But why? Not trying to sound like a three year old, I truly don't get why hair dying is okay now but piercing isn't. Heck, piercing is even more temporary than dying. If you can't stand it, you take it out and it closes up in a day (nose piercings especially). I don't know what piercings you've had that closed up immediately, but in my experience, they leave a scar.
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Jul 16, 2012 12:52:10 GMT -5
Sometimes. They usually leave a small scar. Even if the hair bleaching had gone horribly horribly wrong and all my daughter's hair melted off, 3 years from now you'd never be able to tell. There's literally no long term consequence whatsoever. Other than the emotional damage of being the little bald freak in sixth grade... I imagine that kind of thing would lead to therapy.
Mostly, she's just too young to start getting piercings. It might not make sense to anyone but me, but that's really why I'm not OK with it.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2012 12:54:32 GMT -5
I'm with you on anything other than ears, Dark. I don't know -- I might consider letting her get her nose pierced at 16 but we'll have to cross that bridge when we come to it.
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Post by Firebird on Jul 16, 2012 12:55:20 GMT -5
I don't know what piercings you've had that closed up immediately, but in my experience, they leave a scar.
None of my former piercings have ever left scars. Especially the nose one, I think that hole is completely gone now. Maybe I'm just weird.
Either way, it's not something anyone else would ever notice. I have a much more noticeable scar on my chin from falling off the stairs when I was four or five, and no one ever even comments on that.
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Post by swamp on Jul 16, 2012 12:57:44 GMT -5
i have scars on my ears from the second piercings.
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Post by taz157 on Jul 16, 2012 12:59:23 GMT -5
dark - How did the purple hair turn out? I would love to dye my hair an "out-there" color; however, I work for a professional firm and it would be upon. FWIW, it's totally not me anyway. I do have my ears single-pierced and could do that in 3rd grade, when my mom thought I was mature enough to take care of them. DD will follow the same logic (she's currently 11.5 months old). When I was a teenager, I wanted my ears double pierced. My mom wouldn't sign off on them before I was 18. A month after I turned 18, I got it done. Let's just say, they didn't last too long and have since closed up.
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Post by midjd on Jul 16, 2012 12:59:26 GMT -5
Your tongue closes up in about 6 hours if you take the stud out (or accidentally swallow it in your sleep ). Left a scar, but who cares?
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Post by thyme4change on Jul 16, 2012 13:00:41 GMT -5
Me too. I can still see them. 10 years after I let them close up someone asked me if my ears were double pierced.
Dark - I'm with you - 11 seems young. If nothing else, you are teaching her delayed gratification. My daughter will be 10 any minute now and I haven't even let her pierce her ears. She is so bad at personal hygiene - and I remember my piercings getting infected - so when she can prove she can take care of these things herself, she can put holes in her head.
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Post by taz157 on Jul 16, 2012 13:00:48 GMT -5
I don't know what piercings you've had that closed up immediately, but in my experience, they leave a scar. None of my former piercings have ever left scars. Especially the nose one, I think that hole is completely gone now. Maybe I'm just weird. Either way, it's not something anyone else would ever notice. I have a much more noticeable scar on my chin from falling off the stairs when I was four or five, and no one ever even comments on that. I have a scar on my forehead from going under a Bronco sled-riding when I was 7/8. 20+ years later, it's still there and I still wear bangs. FWIW, it did require 19 stitiches.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2012 13:02:46 GMT -5
I BEGGED my Mom to let me get my ears pierced from the time I went to kindergarten and saw classmates with earrings. My Mom had to wait until she was 16 to get hers done and she had it in her mind that we would wait that long too. I wore her down and got the first ones at 8. ;D I got the second ones done when I was in 7th grade. After that, I'd just do my own with a piercing earring. The cartilage one hurt the most; I can still hear the *snap* when I broke though.
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