Needles: 1 – Kailyn: 0
Posted by Jules | Filed under Parenting
My daughter is not scared of needles in that way that many children are- rather, she just thinks they’re disgusting, much like bugs. It’s rather strange.
Anyway, a couple of weeks ago, she asked me if she could get her ears pierced. I was not prepared to answer that question. I hadn’t had her ears pierced when she was a baby, and figured I’d just let her do it when she was old enough to want them and ask. Silly me, I expected that to be closer to when she was 10, not 5 and a half.
I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised though. I mean, Mommy has lots of holes in her ears (and other visible places), and all her friends do, etc.
However, being as I was caught off guard, my response was “… if you still want them next week, ask again, k?”
So every couple of days it was “Mommy, has it been a week yet?” “Not yet love.”
After her week was finally up and she still wanted them and remembered to ask again (I don’t know why I thought she might forget!), I told her she could, but she had to go ask Adam (a friend of Scott and I, does piercings for a living, is Kailyn’s BFF, she adores him) nicely if he would do it for her. So she did, and he said of course, and we went into the shop a couple days ago.
We got there, and Adam plops her onto a big cushy chair. He’s getting stuff prepped and showing her everything and explaining what it’s for.. then he gets to the needle and Kailyn goes,
“Wait a minute. Nobody said anything about needles!”
I tried really hard not to roll my eyes at her and said that it wasn’t that bad, and of course there were needles involved, it’s a hole and how did she think it was going to get there? She sullenly replied with “you didn’t tell me!”
So I pulled out my pocket dictionary (it’s this new game we’re playing, where Mommy uses real logic and Immovable Forces like definitions to prove her point haha) and read her the definition of “Pierce”.
Her response to that was, “Ewwww. Nevermind, let’s go home.”
Tags: Kailyn, Parenting, piercing, scorekeeping, story time
July 26th, 2010 at 12:45 pm
[...] of thing that she calls School still. She’s a strange kid. She’s back to reconsidering getting her ears pierced, in spite of the needles involved. It’s so cute, watching her try to weigh the pros and cons. [...]