Nathan gets these temporary tattoos at school. They offer them late in the week, for a quarter or something. His rules are that he can get a maximum of two per week, they cannot go on his face, and they come off before Sunday night bath with no bellyaching.
I’m looking forward to seeing what the winter brings. Perhaps they’ll rent some clip or magnetic studs, so he can take a pierced nose for a test-drive. An extensive mocktail selection at the spring carnival would be an excellent idea, as well. It would be good for him to begin exploring his likes and dislikes in distilled spirits.
Sheesh.
Yeah, I feel like a little bit of a drag being down on this, but come on. I have no problem with tattoos, but I do believe they should be considered carefully, and somewhere far, far north of not quite 6 years old.
Is acclimating young children to this direct analog (they’re waterproof; you need oil or isopropanol to get rid of them) a good thing?
We had yellow jacket stickers for our cheeks when I marched in the band at Oxford. They were nifty, with that metallic turned look about them.
They also peeled right off.
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I have no issues with the temporary tattoos – they essentially ARE the stickers we used to put on the backs of our hands or on our cheeks (I have fond memories of getting star stickers for good behavior – I was such a brown-noser – on the back of my hands in elementary school). It’s just that the technology for such things has evolved.
I DO see your point, though. Mr. Chili and I established a rule for the girls; we will allow them, when they demonstrate a great deal more personal responsibility than they currently show, to get their ears pierced ONCE. ANYTHING else that’s permanent – any more piercings, tattoos and the like – are only to be done when they don’t need us to sign consent forms. I’ll let them do anything they want to their hair – hell, I’ll help them dye it purple and shave it in funky patterns if they want – but I’m NOT going to have them coming back, when they’re in their twenties and getting married in a strapless gown, to blame me for letting them get that tattoo on their shoulder when they were 16.
I’ve been trying to talk da boy into letting me cut his hair into a mohawk for our upcoming trip to new orleans. He’ll have none of that.
I came back to check to see if we were having a conversation here, and I took a moment to look at the boy’s picture. Is that “SMUG” on his face? He’s wicked cute, but I can see “troublemaker” in him, too….
Nah. He’s a good kid. He tests his limits in irritating ways sometimes, of course. But any sort of sneaky streak has yet to develop, and it upsets him to upset us. No complaints.