After seeing a six-year old with a badly infected pierced ear, I decided that my girls could wait until they were old enough to look after their own piercings. We parents have enough to do without having to worry about unnecessary medical problems. So we decided that our girls would have to wait until they were 16 until they could have their ears pierced, and that only one piercing would be allowed. If they wanted any more piercings or tattoos, then they could wait until they left home. They got to adulthood without any more piercings or tattoos, and then added them in a minimal fashion once they were fully independent adults.

I can't believe anyone could look at a baby or a little girl Peirced or not and think trash trailor.. That's soo wrong.... I think ears peirced are "cute" "pretty" I would never think trash or any other mean things people are saying.. I think it's only wrong if you yourself think it is..

Me personaly can't see anything wrong with it.

I also am a very bad speller so if there is any mistakes i'm sorry:-)

I do happen to think very little girls with pierced ears look adorable. BUT I would never get my child's ears pierced till she was old enough to ask for it and understand it will hurt and she must look after them. Why cause your child any uneccessary pain, even if she does "just cry for a few minutes" As many people say?

Yeah I agree with this, my husband is south american and we both plan to have our newborn daughter's ears pierced at a few months, as this is the way it's done in his family. Does this make our baby bogan?
Honestly, I'd rather be called a bogan in this case than be completely ignorant of other people's way of life. In regards to it hurting when it is done, a numbing cream is generally used on babies and most little ones tend to sleep right through the process, or not even notice it's been done.
'Bogan'....honestly, get a dictionary or at least a new word to label people with.

I think toddlerhood is the WORST time to pierce a child's ears.

If you pierce a baby's ears they don't have any nervousness leading up to it, don't remember the pain and are not very likely to fiddle with the earring and cause infection (the thought of piercing a baby's ears makes me uncomfortable but I can see why some people do it)

If you wait until the child is much older and can understand, they are less likely to be traumatised by the piercing and more likely to keep it clean and not fiddle with it.

But a toddler won't understand properly.

If my DD(3) insisted on pierced ears, I'd buy her clip-on earrings, sticker earrings or a Freddo Frog to distract her haha. No way I'd pierce her ears now.

I don't have pierced ears, never wanted them; but I probably would have regreted getting them done with all my friends at 13 or whatever age it was that they all got them done. I think I'd have been pretty p*ssed off if my mum had decided i was getting them when I was younger. I think it's something the person should decide on themselves. As to when they should make that decision...that's harder.