My 6-year-old said she wanted to get her ears pierced. My husband and I had let our kids decided whether they would get ear piercings and when. We took her to a professional piercer, and it was a ...

Bonnie Rochman opted to have her daughter’s ears pierced at a tattoo parlor rather than a mall kiosk, and wrote about her experience in a 2012 TIME article. Though her decision may have been ...

If your parents didn’t have your ears pierced before you left the hospital where you were born, chances are they let you—after a solid year of begging—get small studs or hoops put in once you were a ...

For about a year, my 7-year-old daughter has been tiptoeing around the idea of getting her ears pierced. I've stayed completely neutral — offering only that it was her body and therefore her decision ...